Tammy Faye Messner, 7 March 1943 - 20 July 2007

[lady_curmudgeon]

Tammy Faye Messner dies...

*Tammy Faye Messner, the former televangelist and Christian singer who battled drug addiction and later inoperable cancer, died Friday morning, according to CNN's Larry King on Saturday night. He said the family had asked him to make the delayed announcement. She was 65. "She died peacefully," King said.

*In her appearance on CNN's Larry King Live, Tammy Faye Messner was a shadow of her former self...King said she sought the interview.

*Asked by King What she would most likely be remembered for, Messner replied "well my eyelashes!" Messner always wore heavy makeup--her lip liner, eyeliner and eyebrows were tattooed on.

*Tammy Faye has also been known as one of the few evangelical Christians who had the support of the gay community. She was one of the first televangelists to reach out to those with AIDS when it was a little-known and much-feared disease. In return, she told King in July, "When I went--when we lost everything, it was the gay people that came to my rescue, and I will always love them for that."

*Asked if she had a message for her for her fans, she replied: "I'd like to say that I genuinely love you, and I genuinely care, and I genuinely want to see you in heaven some day. I want you to find peace. I want you to find joy."

Blessed be, Tammy. You will be missed.

Comments

[phoena.livejournal.com]

I never paid much attention to her until she was on the Surreal life and then I thought she was such a sweetie! It's too bad she had such a hard life, especially these last couple of years!

[carriep63.livejournal.com]

That makes me very sad! I loved her on The Surreal Life... you really got to see how sweet of a person she was.

[new-world-smurf.livejournal.com]

Yeah, she was kind of a joke when the whole PTL thing was going on, but she definitely redeemed herself. She also had a really good sense of humor and wasn't at all afraid to poke fun at herself. Evangelical Christianity would get far less of a bad rap with more people like her around (although her son is also doing pretty good work).