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| Jackie Collins Dies From Breast Cancer At 77 | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Sep 19 2015, 07:41 PM (105 Views) | |
| Tybee | Sep 19 2015, 07:41 PM Post #1 |
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Jackie Collins, the beloved best-selling novelist, has died, PEOPLE has exclusively learned. "It is with tremendous sadness that we announce the death of our beautiful, dynamic and one of a kind mother, Jackie Collins, who died of breast cancer today," the Collins family tells PEOPLE in a statement. "She lived a wonderfully full life and was adored by her family, friends and the millions of readers who she has been entertaining for over 4 decades. She was a true inspiration, a trail blazer for women in fiction and a creative force. She will live on through her characters but we already miss her beyond words." Diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer six-and-a-half years ago, Collins, 77, chose to keep her illness almost entirely to herself, confiding primarily in her three daughters, Tracy, 54, Tiffany, 48, and Rory, 46. Collins, who sat down with PEOPLE on Sept. 14 at her Beverly Hills home for what would be her last interview, had no regrets about the decision to keep her cancer journey private while she embraced a very full life until her very last days. "Looking back, I'm not sorry about anything I did," she said during the far-ranging interview that saw her spirited, warm and utterly at peace. "I did it my way, as Frank Sinatra would say. I've written five books since the diagnosis, I've lived my life, I've travelled all over the world, I have not turned down book tours and no one has ever known until now when I feel as though I should come out with it," said Collins, whose treatments over the years included a lumpectomy, radiation and various drug courses and combinations. "Now I want to save other people's lives." http://www.people.com/article/jackie-collins-dead |
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| Guest | Sep 19 2015, 07:59 PM Post #2 |
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I always liked her. Read most of her books. A ballsy broad. Who gets to tell Joanie? |
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| Guest | Sep 19 2015, 08:22 PM Post #3 |
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Rest in peace. I never read her novels, or watched the film adaptations of them. |
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| Tybee | Sep 19 2015, 08:37 PM Post #4 |
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Joan's probably thinking "thank God, now all the attention is MINE!!!!". I wonder what their relationship was like. Friends or enemies like Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland. |
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| Roctopus | Sep 19 2015, 09:32 PM Post #5 |
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So glamorous. I loved her & Joan. :(![]() Edited to force image to appear Edited by Tybee, Sep 20 2015, 06:48 AM.
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| Roctopus | Sep 19 2015, 09:33 PM Post #6 |
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Did I post that pic right Tybee? It was something I had saved on my iPad, a favorite of mine. |
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| Tybee | Sep 20 2015, 06:48 AM Post #7 |
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I don't know how those iPads work. The image didn't appear on your post. In fact when I went in to post the image to the thread your image info does not even show up in the post. |
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| Tybee | Sep 20 2015, 06:49 AM Post #8 |
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There's enough hair in that limo to fill 4 bushel baskets.
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| Guest | Sep 20 2015, 07:51 AM Post #9 |
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"Now, finally, I'M the best author in the family!" -- Joan |
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| Tybee | Sep 20 2015, 08:41 AM Post #10 |
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Wow, she went downhill fast. See the video at the link of her appearance on a TV show in the UK just 9 days before she died. http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/jackie-collins-final-tv-appearance-6479546 |
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| Guest | Sep 20 2015, 09:07 AM Post #11 |
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"Downhill fast" usually means "She decided to ask for the whole bottle of sleeping pills." Like Jackie O. |
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| Erna | Sep 20 2015, 09:09 AM Post #12 |
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self-euthanasia? |
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| Tybee | Sep 20 2015, 10:01 AM Post #13 |
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She's apparently been suffering from last stage breast cancer for years so it's entirely possible one of her other vital organs shut down all of a sudden. I well remember when my mother was dying of cancer, she had periods when you'd never know she was sick, then one day when she was at the hospital having some fluid removed from her abdomen she just keeled over dead. |
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| Roctopus | Sep 20 2015, 10:36 AM Post #14 |
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It was the late 80's/early 90's, I think. |
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| Guest | Sep 20 2015, 01:20 PM Post #15 |
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Did Jackie O really die from suicide? |
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