Actress Tanya Roberts died Monday night — a day after her publicist mistakenly announced her death.
The former Bond girl, 65, peacefully passed away at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, where she’d been hospitalized since Christmas Eve after collapsing in her home following a hike, said her longtime partner, Lance O’Brien, to The Post on Tuesday.
O’Brien said he was sleeping when he got the phone call he expected, but was dreading, from a hospital doctor around 9:30 p.m. Monday.
The partner of “That ’70s Show” actress Roberts said he had previously agreed to have her taken off life support because the doctors told him it was the “compassionate” thing to do — given her kidneys, liver and gall bladder had failed as she battled a urinary-tract issue along with hepatitis C and a deadly blood infection then spread through her body.
“They told me all of her bodily functions, her organs, are disintegrated and she could never come back to being the same — she’d be bedridden for the rest of her life” if kept alive by artificial means, O’Brien said of Roberts, who also starred in the final season of TV’s “Charlie’s Angels” in the early 1980s.
He said he was headed to the hospital Tuesday to pick up Roberts’ personal belongings.
“And I guess I have to make arrangements to have her cremated,” he said, adding that that was Roberts’ wish.
O’Brien said he may spread at least some of the actress’s ashes in the hills near their home where she loved to hike.
Confusion had swirled over Roberts’ final moments after her publicist, Mike Pingel, prematurely announced her death Sunday.
The snafu arose from an apparent misunderstanding between O’Brien and Pingel during a conversation between the pair earlier Sunday, O’Brien told The Post on Monday.
“[Pingel] goes, ‘What happened?’ And I say, ‘I just said goodbye to Tanya, and I got to see her beautiful eyes one last time.’ And after that, I’m just blubbering,” O’Brien recalled.
“Next thing I know, TMZ, OMG, is on my cellphone.”
O’Brien said Tuesday, “The misunderstanding — I don’t know how it happened, everyone was frazzled.”
Pingel backtracked on Robert’s death Monday, saying she was still alive but remained in the ICU in “dire” condition as of that morning.
O’Brien said his partner of 15 years had been placed on a ventilator because she was struggling to breathe, though she did not have COVID-19, after she collapsed at their home early Dec. 24. He told The Post that the hospital had called him Sunday to visit because she was near-death and that afterward is when he talked to Pingel.
“For all intents and purposes, she was gone,’’ O’Brien said Monday, adding that doctors had taken Roberts off life support. “She’s been out of it the last three days.’’
Roberts starred in the 1985 James Bond movie “A View to a Kill” and most recently in “That ’70s Show.”
Pingel confirmed in an e-mailed statement Tuesday that the Bronx-born actress had died.
“With a heavy heart I can confirm the death of Tanya Roberts,” the rep said.
He added that Roberts was an animal-rights activist and in lieu of flowers, her family is asking that donations be made to the ASPCA.
“An online memorial for Tanya Roberts will be announced shortly,” Pingel added. “The family ask for privacy as they mourn her death.”
Born Victoria Leigh Blum, Roberts also appeared in TV commercials for Ultra Brite, Clairol and Cool Ray sunglasses, as well as in off-Broadway productions of “Picnic” and “Antigone,” according to her IMDb biography.
The Playboy cover girl, who also had several made-for-TV films on her resume, was married to Barry Roberts, who died in 2006.
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