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Cancer-stricken evangelist Tammy Faye Messner made what she feared would be her final television appearance on Larry King’s show Thursday.
The ill and suffering Messner, who has inoperable cancer, told King she trusts God with her life. “I talk to God every single day, and I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me,'” she said Thursday on CNN.
Looking painfully thin and tired, she said: “All I eat is chicken soup and rice pudding” and added she weighs only 65 pounds.
The interview was taped via satellite from her home in Kansas City, Missouri. The 65-year-old told King she had asked her doctors not to tell her how much longer she as to live.
“I asked them not to tell me. I don't want my faith levels to go away,” Messner said. She said she now receives hospice care and morphine to mute the pain.
She answered King’s question “Are you in pain?” saying, “All the time.” She added that she is keeping her faith. “I believe when I leave this earth, because I love the Lord, I'm going straight to heaven.”
The minister was first diagnosed with colon cancer in 1996. By 2004, it had spread to her lungs.
King also asked her if she had any life regrets and she replied: “I don't think about it, Larry, because it's a waste of good brain space.”
Her message for the viewers was: “I genuinely love you and I genuinely care. And I genuinely want to see you in heaven someday.”
Messner is the former wife of televangelist Jim Bakker. The two founded PTL Club (Praise the Lord), a religious group and evangelical television program they hosted from 1976 to 1987. Jim Bakker was indicted of fraud and tax evasion in the late 1980s.
Tammy Faye divorced him in 1992, while Bakker was serving his 18-year jail sentence for financial fraud. She remarried in 1993.
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