UPDATE: We wrote the following obituary for the actress Tanya Roberts after it was widely reported that she had passed away. However, the hospital has since called her family and publicist to notify them that she is actually still alive, according to TMZ. We will update you further as this bizarre story continues to unfold.

Hollywood went into mourning this week after it was reported that actress Tanya Roberts, who starred in the 1985 James Bond movie A View To A Kill and “That 70’s Show,” passed away on Sunday following a brief hospitalization at the age of 65.

Entertainment Tonight reported that Roberts’ representative said that he had been told of her passing by her husband, saying that she died at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles and that her death was unrelated to the coronavirus pandemic. According to TMZ, her husband truly was under the impression that she had died.

TMZ reported that Roberts had gone out to take her dogs for a walk on Christmas Eve and she collapsed when she returned home. She was  rushed to the hospital and put on a ventilator, where she appears to remain at this time. Those close to Roberts say that she seemed perfectly healthy in the days before her collapse, even doing video chats with her fans.

“I’m devastated. I’ve been friends with Tanya for over 20 years,” her publicist and longtime friend Mike Pingel told CNN. “She was full of energy, and we always had a wild time together. She was truly an Angel, and I will miss her so much.”

Roberts was best known for starring as  Stacey Sutton in the 1985 James Bond film A View to a Kill, which was the last appearance for Roger Moore as the iconic British spy. Other movie appearances made by Roberts included roles in films like Sins of Desire, Legal Tender, Deep Down, Inner Sanctum, Night Eyes, Almost Pregnant, Favorite Deadly Sins and Tourist Trap.

In television, Roberts spent a year starring on “Charlie’s Angels” as Julie Rogers in the early 1980s. Younger fans will remember her as Donna Pinciotti’s mom, Midge, on “That ’70s Show.” She left this show to help her first husband Barry Roberts through his real-life illness, remaining devoted to him until he died in 2006.

Roberts never had any children, but she is survived by her current husband, Lance, and by her sister, Barbara Chase. In an interview a few years before her death, Roberts reflected on her philosophy on life.

“I’ve made a lot of good choices and a lot of bad choices and that’s part of life,” she said. “Whether you’re really successful or moderately successful, I’m sure that to get there you have made some bad decisions and good decisions on some level, but that’s how I see life. You can’t go through life defeated, it’s just trial and error.”

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