5/10/2007

Courtney Thompson

Tammy Faye wrote a goodbye letter to fans, announcing that doctors stopped cancer treatment.

Tammy Faye Baker, most recently seen on VH1's *The Surreal Life* series, has written a farewell letter to fans via her website after doctors decided to stop treating the colon cancer she was diagnosed with in 2004.  
  
"The doctors have stopped trying to treat the cancer and so now it's up to God and my faith. And that's enough! But please continue to pray for the pain and sick stomach," Tammy Faye wrote on the website. "My precious daughter, Tammy Sue, and her wonderful friends are staying with me. They don't want me falling down the stairs. I am down weight-wise to 65 pounds, and look like a scarecrow. I need God's miracle to swallow."  
  
Baker and her husband, Jim, were known in the 1980s for the evangelical television empire that asked viewers to donate money in the name of Jesus, when it all came crashing down after sex and financial scandals.  
  
She nursed her reputation back to health after the documentary based on her life, *The Eyes of Tammy Faye*, was released in 2000.