Remembering Farrah Fawcett: Jaclyn Smith & Kate Jackson's TV Guide Interview

I know the world is Michael Jackson 24/7 right now but we still cannot forget about the life and death of Farrah Fawcett, who passed away just a few hours before Michael.

The current issue of TV Guide has some wonderful coverage of the late star’s life and career. Here are some excerpts from William Keck’s terrific interviews with Farrah’s Charlie’s Angels co-stars Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith.

The original Angels had a dramatic onstage reunion at the 2006 Emmys where they paid tribute to Aaron Spelling.

“The audience was on its feet - screaming and beating their hands together and they didn’t stop,” Jackson said of Emmy night. “We wanted to give the audience all over the world a little present - to see what they had wanted for so long.”

Added Smith: “It was not easy. But once we got it together on how we were going to do it, it was really fun and a memory we will all cherish forever. I know Farrah had fun. It was important we did it.”

Less a month later, Farrah got her cancer diagnosis and the three reunited off-screen more frequently from then on, the last time being an intimate birthday party for Farrah in February at Fawcett’s home.

Says Jaclyn: “My last time with Farrah was right before she left for her last trip to Germany (for experimental treatment). I took her to acupuncture. You would never have known she was sick that night if you didn’t know one leg was four times the size of the other. We were laughing like true girlfriends.”

Kate remembers the good-natured bickering that occurred while driving Farrah to a cancer treatment: “She made me so damned nervous, telling me to turn left. Farrah said, ‘Get in the left lane - no, not for another two blocks!’ Someone honked their horn because they almost hit us, and Farrah started laughing. She said, ‘See, this should be an episode.’ I believe she was looking back on that wonderful, glorious year when we were three little cocoons who turned into butterflies and she was the most beautiful, gorgeous, sexy, funny,. well-known woman in the world.”