. >> farrah fawcet has publicly been sharing her battle with cancer returned to the hospital this week. >> for the past years '70s icon farrah fawcett has been fighting for her life. all of these headlines collide on june 25th. >> june 25th was a day where things just got eclipsed. >> how is farrah, how is she doing? >> farrah is gone. >> what turned out to be farrah's last night, we spent the evening in the hospital. we knew that it was likely to be sometime that night or early the next morning. and shortly after 9:00 in the morning, she passed away. >> actress farrah fawcet has died after her three-year battle with cancer. she was only 62. let's go now to nbc's mike oku in burbank. michael. >> andrea, as many of our viewers recall, she was diagnosed with anal cancer back in 2006, she had a reprieve, but fortunately in that same year, doctors found a malignant polyp. >> even though everybody knew that farrah fawcett was going through a battle for her life literally, when it happened, you're hit with the weight of the actual event. and in this case, it's an icon of the '70s. >> as farr