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Jaclyn Smith remembers Farrah Fawcett on 10-year anniversary of her death

Frank Carnevale
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In this May 1977 file photo, actress Farrah Fawcett-Majors, poses on the tennis court in Los Angeles. Fawcett died, Thursday, June 25, 2009, at a hospital in Los Angeles. She was 62.
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A poster of actress Farrah Fawcett is for sale at Hollywood Book in Hollywood section of Los Angeles,Thursday, June 25, 2009. Fawcett, the “Charlie’s Angels” star whose feathered blond hair and dazzling smile made her one of the biggest sex symbols of the 1970s, died after battling cancer. She was 62.
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Farrah Fawcett arrives for the MTV Video Music Awards in Miami in this Aug. 29, 2004, file photo.

Farrah Fawcett’s “Charlie’s Angels’” co-star Jaclyn Smith remembered her friend on the 10-year anniversary of her death as brave and relentless.

“Who would have dreamed that this girl who was known for the smile and the hair and the glamour would open up the depths of her soul to share with the world?” Smith said to People.com of Fawcett.

“I miss her every day,” said Smith, 73, about her friend. “A lot of people are gone now and that’s hard. I miss them and it’s okay to miss them.”

Fawcett died at age 62 on June 25, 2009, after a battle with anal cancer.

The actress played one season on “Charlie’s Angeles,” which also starred Smith and Kate Jackson, but was immediately famous. A poster of her in a red bathing suit sold a record 12 million copies in the 1970s and 80s, according to Biography.com. She also starred in several movies during that time, including “The Cannonball Run.” She was nominated for an Emmy for her 1984 TV movie “The Burning Bed” about domestic violence. In 1986 she won a Golden Globe for her role in “Extremities.”

She used her fame to bring attention to the disease.

Dr. Laurence Piro, Fawcett’s oncologist, also spoke with People.com and said that the actress brought awareness to the cancer.

“She was brave and heroically so. She hated hearing her name and anal cancer in the same sentence, but it was important for the stigma to be broken,” Piro said to the magazine. “She wanted to raise awareness from the very beginning.”

Frank Carnevale is the TribLive multimedia editor. He started at the Trib in 2016 and has been part of several news organizations, including the Providence Journal and Orlando Sentinel. He can be reached at fcarnevale@triblive.com.

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