Ashton Kutcher tells ‘That ‘70s Present’ co-stars Tanya Roberts is alive

Ashton Kutcher is serving to set the report straight on Tanya Roberts.

Kutcher, 42, has been informing a few of his “That ’70s Present” co-stars that 65-year-old Roberts is nonetheless alive regardless of her publicist initially claiming she died.

Actor Topher Grace, who performed Eric Forman on the hit sequence, mourned the lack of the previous Bond lady in an emotional tribute, solely to obtain the excellent news from Kutcher shortly thereafter.

“I used to be so unhappy to listen to that Tanya Roberts has handed away. She was a Bond lady, one among Charlie’s Angels, and actually a pleasant individual to work with,” wrote Grace, 42. “I had by no means acted earlier than and, to be sincere, a little bit nervous round her. However she couldn’t have been kinder. We’ll miss you Midge.”

Kutcher responded, “yo bro she’s not lifeless.”

Fellow co-star Debra Jo Rupp, who performed Kitty Forman on the present, additionally tweeted an emotional tribute to Roberts.

“Tanya had an enormous deep hearty chuckle. She was all intuition and sweetness. Within the first season of 70’s we had a scene within the kitchen, ingesting cocktails and laughing collectively,” Rupp wrote. “She laughed, spit her drink in my face, apologized profusely and did it three extra occasions. I liked her. RIP magnificence.”

Slightly succinctly, Kutcher replied, “dj she’s nonetheless alive.”

Roberts’ publicist, Mike Pingel, incorrectly introduced that the 65-year-old actress handed away after misunderstanding a narrative from her longtime accomplice, Lance O’Brien.

O’Brien advised The Put up he had had a “blubbering” dialog with Pingel by which he advised the longtime publicist that he needed to “say goodbye” to Roberts after being knowledgeable that she wouldn’t survive. The dialog prompted Pingel to launch the assertion of her demise, although it turned out to be a misunderstanding.

O’Brien acquired a cellphone name from the hospital Monday morning telling him she was nonetheless alive.

“For all intents and functions, she was gone,” O’Brien mentioned. “She’s been out of it the final three days.”

She had been hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Middle in Los Angeles since Dec. 24 after collapsing in her dwelling.

Docs have since taken her off life assist and advised O’Brien there’s no probability she’ll survive.