Farrah Fawcett‘s longtime love Ryan O’Neal is opening up about the couple’s relationship, 10 years after her passing.
The 78-year-old actor and former boxer dated Farrah for almost 20 years and shares son Redmond with the late actress.
After splitting in 1997, the couple reconciled in 2001 when Ryan was diagnosed with leukemia.
“There was never a day I didn’t love her,” Ryan told People.
Farrah‘s close friend Sylvia Dorsey added, “Ryan was the love of her life. I don’t think she was happy without him. They fought and loved with passion. It was never boring. They were electric together.”
Ryan spent the final days of Farrah‘s life at her bedside, where he finally proposed marriage.
“I think they would’ve married if she had made it because he asked her to marry him in the hospital and she said yes. But she took a turn for the worse. This was just a few weeks before the end, so perhaps it wasn’t realistic. The two of them had a deep bond and deep love. No matter what they went through, the ups and downs, he was the one she wanted by her side,” Farrah‘s friend Alana Stewart explained.
Farrah sadly passed away on June 25, 2009.