Suzanne Somers, a famous actress, passed away on Sunday, a day before she would have been 77. Publicist R. Couri Hay released a statement on behalf of the Somers family, saying that the “Three’s Company” actor has been fighting an aggressive form of breast cancer for more than 23 years. He claimed Somers died at home, surrounded by loved ones.
“Her family was gathered to celebrate her 77th birthday on October 16th,” Hay said in the statement. “Instead, they will celebrate her extraordinary life, and want to thank her millions of fans and followers who loved her dearly.”
This week, there will be a private family burial, and in November, there will be a memorial service.
Suzanne Somers Cause Of Death
Somers was initially diagnosed with skin cancer in the year 2000. Some others criticized her for using a “chemical-free and organic” lifestyle to fight cancer, as she describes it. The American Cancer Society criticized her for her public arguments against chemotherapy on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and elsewhere. Somers revealed the return of her breast cancer in a July Instagram post.
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“As you know, I had breast cancer two decades ago, and every now and then it pops up again, and I continue to bat it down,” Somers wrote. “I have used the best alternative and conventional treatments to combat it. This is not new territory for me. I know how to put on my battle gear and I’m a fighter.”
Suzanne Somers Career
On October 16, 1946, in San Bruno, California, to a gardener father and a medical secretary mother, Suzanne Marie Mahoney Somers was born. After working as a model, Somers landed her first acting part in George Lucas’s “American Graffiti” in 1973, when she played an unnamed blonde beauty in a white Thunderbird who attracts the attention of Richard Dreyfuss’s character, a college freshman.
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The Rockford Files, Magnum Force, and The Six Million Dollar Man were just a few of the 1970s TV shows she guest-starred on. Somers, Joyce DeWitt, and John Ritter played a group of three roommates in the 1977 ABC sitcom “Three’s Company,” in which Somers played one of the two female leads.
Suzanne Somers, Joyce DeWitt, and John Ritter in an episode of “Three’s Company” from 1979. Chrissy Snow’s dumb blonde portrayer, Suzanne Somers, was fired after five seasons on the show in 1981 because she wanted to be paid as much as Ritter ($150,000 each episode).
For the remainder of the show’s run, Somers was replaced by two different roommates. Her demands and subsequent departure caused tensions with her co-stars, and she remained estranged from DeWitt and Ritter for a considerable amount of time. Before Ritter’s death in 2003, she made amends with him, and later, she and DeWitt reconciled on Suzanne Somers’ web show “Breaking Through.”
Both “She’s the Sheriff” (1987–1989) and “Step by Step” (1991–1998) had Somers in starring roles. Somers branched out into writing and the health and fitness industry, becoming the face of the ThighMaster in television infomercials. Their son Bruce Jr. was born the same year (1965) that Somers wed her first husband, Bruce Somers.
The couple split up in 1968. When Somers was working as a prize model on “The Anniversary Game” in 1969, she met Alan Hamel, a game show host; the two would eventually tie the knot in 1977. According to Hay’s statement, Somers passed away while in the company of Hamel, her son Bruce, and other members of her immediate family.
