Ryan O'Neal says he and longtime love Farrah Fawcett are tying the knot.

"I've asked her to marry me, again, and she's agreed," O'Neal, 68, tells Barbara Walters in an exclusive interview on ABC's 20/20, airing Friday, June 26.

The couple have been together since 1982 and O'Neal has been a constant presence by Fawcett's side as she battles a very public battle with cancer.


The 62 year old actress was diagnosed with the rectal cancer in 2006 and had surgery to remove a tumour.

O'Neal says now Farrah is "fighting for her life. I just don't know how to play this one. I won't know this world without her," he said. "It's a love story."

But he says they "will" wed "as soon as she can say yes. ... Maybe we can just nod her head."

The actor says he and Fawcett have even joked about what he'll wear for the ceremony, kidding that he'll dress "like a gigolo. You know? And a little thin mustache and slicked-back hair. I don't know. We have fun, we tease about that."

The two have a 24-year-old son Redmond (who is now in rehab following previous drug convictions).


He was allowed to leave prison to see his ailing mother and in touching scenes filmed for the documentary was seen climbing on to her bed to give her a hug.

"I used to ask her to marry me all the time," O'Neal tells Walters. "But ... it just got to be a joke, you know. We just joked about it."

In May, O'Neal told NBC News that he has fallen more in love with Fawcett as he watches her bravely battle cancer.

"I know this, that in the last two years I loved her more than I've ever loved her - ever," he told Meredith Vieira. "She's so much more of a woman ... powerful, courageous, fearless and all those adjectives. And I look at her with awe."