Emotional Ryan O’Neal leads mourners at Farrah Fawcett funeral

The actor Ryan O’Neal has led friends and family in an emotional private funeral service for actress Farrah Fawcett, who died last week aged 62 after a long and public battle with cancer.

A grief-stricken Mr O’Neal, the long-time companion of the Charlie’s Angels star and pin-up icon, was one of the pall-bearers accompanying Fawcett’s flower-covered coffin into the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, and he gave a bible reading at the Roman Catholic service.

Redmond O’Neal, the Love Story actor’s 24-year-old son with Fawcett, was allowed briefly out of jail where he is being held on drugs possession charges to attend the funeral service. Redmond also gave a bible reading, after the service started with a recital of the