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Farrah Fawcett is getting a sequel.
In the wake of strong ratings for her self-filmed NBC documentary, Farrah's Story, the network has ordered a follow-up, Ryan O'Neal announced this morning on the Today show. Nearly 9 million people tuned in to watch the two-hour special Friday (a number the star herself apparently was happy to hear).
"We haven't stopped filming, and we're going to make a second installment on her life eventually," Fawcett's longtime beau said.
The ailing Charlie's Angels star watched the telecast with O'Neal and best friend Alana Stewart by her side.
"When we began watching it Friday night, she had a very low pulse,” O’Neal said. "But by the end of the program...It kept going up and up and up. It was wonderful. We have to now show her one of her films every night."
"She cried a few times," Stewart told Meredith Viera. "It was very emotional for her, Meredith, and I think it's because it's been a very, very long journey and going back through it was probably a bit painful. When it was over, I said, 'OK, so did you like it?' And she said, 'I liked it very, very, very, very, very much.' Those were her exact words."
Previously, O'Neal shared that, when son Redmond O'Neal was given leave from prison to visit her, Fawcett was unaware of his latest brushes with the law. Still, in the film, she had to have seen his shackles and orange jumpsuit, but she said nothing about it to her loved ones.
"She never commented about his incarceration. Maybe it hurt too much," O'Neal said.
A weekend report that the 24-year-old was granted a second leave to visit his mother on Friday has proven false.
"Mr. O' Neal did not visit his mother or anybody," Los Angeles Sheriffs Department spokesman Steve Whitmore tells E! News. "He did not leave the facility, has not left the facility, since that one visit weeks ago that was approved by the court. He was in custody in the same jail Friday, Saturday, Sunday and this morning."
—Additional reporting by Whitney English
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