"When and if the end comes, no one will approach it better than you," said Larry King to Tammy Faye Messner during a live television interview Thursday night. Friday morning, the end arrived -- Tammy Faye lost her long and courageous battle with inoperable cancer. She was 65.
A Christian singer, evangelist, entrepreneur, talk show host, reality show star, and former wife of disgraced televengalist Jim Bakker, Tammy Faye was diagnosed with colon cancer in 1996. She defied all medical predictions after her disease spread to her lungs in 2004, and she lived on with an inspiring amount of grace and dignity. Weighing only 65 pounds and battling almost constant pain, she spoke with Larry King just days ago -- with both her trademark make-up and a smile on her face -- and she talked openly and candidly about her death. She didn't know when her time would come. But she was ready.
The end has come for Tammy Faye. Surely, no one approached it quite like her.
1. I was very upset at how much weight Tammy had lost during her battle with cancer and how weak she was.
I feel that she knew the end was near and was telling the world good bye on Larry King. My deepest heart felt sympathy to her family. Remember she as good as told us she would be waiting in heaven to see you. God bless you! Judy-Alabama. I also know I will one day join my family in heaven, but I want to see my Jesus first!
I want to look into his face and know what color his eyes are and to thank HIM for loving me and Blessing me so, me a sinner.
Posted at 12:28AM on Jul 22nd 2007 by Judy Batson