Tanya Roberts the woman known for her role in the James Bond movie “A View to a Kill” and many other movies, is said to still be alive. The publicist who had announced her death, said she is still alive, as a miscommunication led to erroneous reports about the 65-year-old actress.
The publicist, Mike Pingel admitted that he had done so in error.
According to the reports Pingel said in an interview on Monday night that Ms. Tanya Roberts, 65, was hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and in grave condition for an unspecified illness.
The information contradicted earlier accounts that Mr. Pingel had given to several media outlets that had reported that Ms Tanya Roberts had died.
Mr. Pingel said that he had relied on information from Lance O’Brien, Ms. Roberts’s longtime partner.
“It’s a human miscommunication, unfortunately,” Mr. Pingel said. “People have been writing beautiful amazing stories on her. It’s a shame this happened.”
Mr. O’Brien said in a separate interview on Monday night that Ms. Tanya Roberts had been hospitalized since Dec. 24 after feeling ill after a hike a few days earlier in their Hollywood Hills neighbourhood. Ms. Tanya Roberts developed sepsis after an infection and her prognosis is bleak, he said.
Mr. O’Brien said he had been recounting visiting Ms. Roberts on Sunday at the hospital to Mr. Pingel and told the publicist that “I just said goodbye to her.” In what he called an “innocuous” miscommunication, he said that Mr. Pingel had been under the impression that Ms. Roberts had died.
“I was an emotional wreck,” Mr. O’Brien said.
Then, he said, he started to receive push notifications on his phone regarding Ms. Roberts’s death.
“My phone blew up,” he said.
The error was widely reported before those who ought to know are admitting their error or misinformation.