Actress Tanya Roberts poses for photos at the grand opening of the musical comedy "The Producers" at the Paris hotel-casino in Las Vegas on Friday, Feb. 9, 2007.
Actress Tanya Roberts is still alive, despite reports to the contrary, her representative confirmed to the New York Daily News.
Spokesman Mike Pingle said Roberts' husband Lance thought he had said goodbye to her for the last time Sunday, so Pingle sent out a press statement confirming Roberts’ death prematurely.
“Oh my God, he’s distraught,” Pingle said of Roberts’ husband.
“He had seen Tanya, he had hugged her. I took him in for the last rites. He was very distraught. It was just a miscommunication that went horribly wrong. She’s still in the hospital and it’s very dire,” Pingle told the Daily News.
“After seeing her, he felt that she had passed,” Pingle said. “(Then) the doctors from Cedars Sinai called him and told him at 10 a.m. (PT) that she had not passed last night but it is dire. Please keep her in your prayers.”
The former Bond girl who also starred in “Charlie’s Angels” and “That ’70s Show,” is 65.
Her death was first reported by TMZ on Sunday.
The outlet said Roberts collapsed on Christmas Eve after returning from a walk with her dogs and was placed on a ventilator.
A source told the Daily News that Roberts is battling a viral infection unrelated to COVID-19.
Photos: Tanya Roberts through the years
Actress Tanya Roberts sits for photographers during a news conference in Los Angeles, Ca. on June 17, 1980. ABC television representatives announced that Roberts will join the cast as the newest angel on "Charlie's Angels." Roberts, of New York, won the role over 2,000 aspirants. (AP Photo)
Newest star of the television show "Charlie's Angels," Tanya Roberts, is pictured during a taping of ABC-TV's "Kids Are People Too," in New York, Aug. 1, 1980. (AP Photo/Suzanne Vlamis)
Tanya Roberts of the TV program "Charlie's Angels" is pictured in 1980. (AP Photo)
Tanya Roberts stars as Kiri in the adventure movie "The Beastmaster," Dec. 16, 1981. (AP Photo/Wally Fong)
Tanya Roberts stars as Kiri and Marc Singer as Dar, in the adventure movie "The Beastmaster," Dec. 16, 1981. (AP Photo/Wally Fong)
Tanya Roberts stars as Kiri in the adventure movie "The Beastmaster," Dec. 16, 1981. (AP Photo/Wally Fong)
Popular British actor Roger Moore poses as James Bond, 007 British secret agent, with New York-born actress Tanya Roberts in the next 007 adventure "A View to a Kill," the fourteenth of he Albert R. Broccoli presentation series, in front of Chantilly castle outside of Paris, Aug. 16, 1984. (AP Photo/Alexis Duclos)
Actress Tanya Roberts poses for photos at the grand opening of the musical comedy "The Producers" at the Paris hotel-casino in Las Vegas on Friday, Feb. 9, 2007. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
©2021 New York Daily News. Visit at nydailynews.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
