Kirstie Alley: Emmy-winning Cheers actress dies of cancer at 71

Actress Kirstie Alley, champion known for her relation successful the drama bid Cheers successful the 1980s, has died of crab astatine 71, according to a household statement.

"We are bittersweet to pass you that our incredible, fierce and loving parent has passed away, " her children wrote.

Alley won an Emmy grant for her relation arsenic a pub manager connected the fashionable TV series.

The autochthonal of Wichita, Kansas has besides appeared successful the films Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Drop Dead Gorgeous, and the Look Who's Talking series.

The household connection did not specify what crab she had, but said it was "only precocious discovered".

"She was surrounded by her closest household and fought with large strength, leaving america with a certainty of her never-ending joyousness of surviving and immoderate adventures prevarication ahead," it continued.

"As iconic arsenic she was connected screen, she was an adjacent much astonishing parent and grandmother."

They besides praised her "zest and passionateness for life, her children, grandchildren and her galore animals, not to notation her eternal joyousness of creating".

John Travolta, who co-starred with her successful the Look Who's Talking series, took to Instagram to wage his respects

"Kirstie was 1 of the astir peculiar relationships I've ever had. I emotion you Kirstie," helium wrote alongside a photograph of her.

"I cognize we volition spot each different again."