Suzanne Somers, the sultry actress best known for her role as Chrissy Snow on the television show Three’s Company, has died at the age of 76.
Somers had suffered from breast cancer for more than 23 years and died Sunday morning, her family said in a statement through her longtime representative, R. Couri Hay. Her husband Alan Hamel, son Bruce and other close family were with her in Palm Springs, California.
“His family was gathered on October 16 to celebrate his 77th birthday,” the statement said. “Instead, they will celebrate her extraordinary life, and I want to thank the millions of fans and followers who loved her dearly.”
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In July, Somers shared on Instagram that her breast cancer had returned.
“As with any cancer patient, there is a sinking feeling in your stomach when you get the dreaded ‘It’s back.’ “So I put on my combat gear and go to war,” he told the talk show Entertainment Tonight at the time. “This is a battlefield I know, and I’m very resilient.”
He was first diagnosed in 2000 and also had skin cancer. She has been criticized for her supposedly organic, chemical-free lifestyle to combat both types of cancer. In books and on platforms such as “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” he made arguments against the use of chemotherapy, which earned him criticism from the American Cancer Society.
Somers was born in San Bruno, California in 1946. His father was a gardener and his mother worked as a doctor’s secretary. She began acting in the late 1960s, playing the blonde driving the white Thunderbird in George Lucas’s 1973 “American Graffiti.” His only sentence was to say the words “I love you” to the character played by Richard Dreyfuss.
At his audition, Lucas only asked him if he could drive. She later said that moment “changed her life forever.”
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