Post #320413 by VampiressRN on Sat, Jul 21, 2007 7:08 PM

Tammy Faye Messner, who earlier this week took her battle with cancer public, died Saturday 7/21/07. She was 65.

Messner appeared on "Larry King Live" Thursday to talk about her inoperable cancer. She told King that 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,"' the former televangelist said.

It was King who broke the news of Messner's death Saturday.

During the Thursday interview, Messner appeared emaciated and spoke in a raspy voice. She said she had been having trouble keeping food down and weighed only 65 pounds.

She was diagnosed with colon cancer in 1996 and announced in 2004 that the disease had spread to her lungs.

Messner divorced televangelist Jim Bakker in 1992, while he was serving a sentence for financial fraud. The couple had founded a Christian retreat in Fort Mill, S.C., and built a multimillion-dollar evangelism empire.

Messner and her husband Joe lived in Kansas City, Mo. at the time of her death. She married Joe Messner after divorcing preacher Jim Bakker. The couple moved from Charlotte, N.C., built what she called her "dream home" in Kansas City.

Messner stopped receiving cancer treatments in May and had undergone hospice care in her home since then.