Almost three years after the loss of Farrah Fawcett, her love Ryan O’Neal reveals the truth about his own battle with cancer, including a recent procedure on his nose. "I had a cancer on it, so I had it removed before I came to the show today," he tells Rachael. "It'll be fine, I'll get rid of it. I promise." He credits his inspiration to Farrah, who he watched brave her own illness with grace. "I want her back so badly, I am so lonely without her," he says. "She was heroic, she was like Joan of Arc and so when I discovered I had more cancer in me I thought, 'Oh no, now I've got to stand up for Farrah. I can't collapse, she didn't.'"

He writes about their life together in his new memoir, Both of Us: My Life with Farrah, and includes never-before-seen photos and handwritten notes she would write for him. Some are as simple as a list for the grocery store or items she would ask him to pick up during errands. "Mostly hair products!" he jokes. "She had beautiful handwriting and she always finished by saying that she loved me ... and so I just kept it and I kept a journal. So, when someone suggested to me, 'Do your autobiography' — there are things in my life that I don't want to write about, but they said, 'No, start with when you met Farrah,' and I went, 'Oh, wait a minute. There's when my life changed for the best and so that's why I wrote this book." Rachael asks if he recalls why he fell in love with the star and he says sweetly that it was a combination of her beauty and food: "She was a pretty good cook!"