Farrah Fawcett Bears No Ill Will Toward Woman Who Viewed Her Medical Records

Farrah Fawcett bears no ill will towards a woman who peeped at her confidential medical records at the UCLA Medical Center and may have sold them to the tabloids.

In a story published earlier this week, the Los Angeles Times claims 14 more people with affiliations to the hospital improperly viewed medical records of celebrities. As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, around the time of Britney Spears’ involuntary psychiatric hold at the facility in early 2008, several people were reprimanded or fired from the Center for peering at her records and those of other celebrities.

The additional workers were identified after the California Department of Public Health visited the facility last week, according to the Times.

Lawanda J. Jackson, described in the article as “a longtime administrative specialist,” is alleged to have looked at the records of 61 patients, including Fawcett’s.

She reportedly looked at Fawcett’s medical records on 104 different days. She is also believed to have accessed Spears’ files.

Jackson has been indicted by a federal grand jury. She is accused of selling celebrities medical records contained information to the tabloids.

In a new statement, the former “Charlie’s Angels” star, who has been battling cancer, had less than harsh words for Jackson and instead criticized the facility.

“It is my personal belief that what Lawanda Jackson is most guilty of is being a pawn,” Fawcett wrote. “She worked in a hospital system that did not provide strong enough deterrents to stop their employees from breaching their patient’s medical records — which made it all the easier for the tabloids to financially induce… her to invade my privacy as well as the privacy of others.”

Jackson resigned in July 2007. She also denied leaking information to the media and last April told the Times she was just “being nosey.”

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