Former Tammy Faye Bakker tells Larry King she has inoperable lung cancer

Associated Press/March 19, 2004

Los Angeles -- Former televangelist Tammy Faye Messner announced Thursday on CNN's Larry King Live she has inoperable lung cancer.

Messner, 62, told one caller she "believes in miracles" and told another she is considering holistic medicine in addition to chemotherapy to treat her cancer.

The former Tammy Faye Bakker divorced televangelist Jim Bakker in 1992 while he was serving a sentence for financial fraud.

Messner has a self-help book I Will Survive...And You Will, Too! that was released last year before she was diagnosed.

She recently appeared on the WB reality show The Surreal Life, costarring with former rapper Vanilla Ice, ex-porn star Ron Jeremy and others.