CONNIE STEVENS: She's Still a FIGHTER

SEVEN YEARS AFTER SURVIVING A STROKE, THE PERFORMER REMAINS THANKFUL FOR HER BLESSINGS

- Amanda Champagne-Meadows

Actress Joely Fisher jokes that she learned how to call for hotel room service around the same time that she learned to talk. "My mom was on the road, and she took us with her," Joely, the daughter of Connie Stevens and Eddie Fisher, told Closer prior to the SAG-AFTRA strike. "It wasn't always a first-class and limos kind of thing. She was a working single mom, supporting her family."

Connie, 84, became a household name on TV's Hawaiian Eye in 1959, but enlarged her career over the next five decades to include hit records, movies, theater, a nightclub act, writing and directing, and a line of skincare products. "She's still a badass," Joely gushed at an event for Race to Erase MS.