How Sally Ride Gave Partner of 27 Years Permission to Detail Romance | E! News

How Sally Ride Gave Partner of 27 Years Permission to Detail Romance | E! News

i was her life partner for 27 years dr sally Ride’s life partner says the late astronaut gave her permission to reveal their romance just before she died ride’s life partner Tam O Shaughnessy opens up about their 27-year romance in the documentary Sally which premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival in January and is now streaming on Hulu and Disney Plus the film covers Ryy’s groundbreaking achievement of becoming the first American woman in space in 1983 as well as her lessertold love story which started in the 80s america’s first woman astronaut houston land clear she was the most famous person on earth for a while it was really hard because she was very private dr sally Ride sally Ride sally K ryan sally risked everything to make history but telling the world about us was a risk she just couldn’t take who do you tell me who you were to Sally i was her life partner for 27 years though they kept their romance hidden from the public for decades Oshanesy says that changed right before Ry died in 2012 of complications from pancreatic cancer at age 61 she tells People magazine “10 days before she died I asked her how I should be to the public i was holding sort of a public celebration of her life and then a national tribute at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC and it was like so who am I oshanesy adds our friends and family knew and people guessed it didn’t feel honest she told me you decide what you want to say how open you want to be about our relationship in the dock Oshanosy talks about keeping their love story secret and reveals love notes from Sally who gave them an understandably scientific spin sally would send these notes to me i decided to tackle the problem of red plus green equals yellow she actually did the math isn’t physics wonderful you sure are love the mad physicist in 2013 Oshanesy accepted the Presidential Medal of Freedom on behalf of her late partner presented by then President Barack Obama [Music]

Sally Ride’s partner, Tam O’Shaughnessy, detailed her decision to reveal their 27-year romance before the famed astronaut died in 2012 following her battle with pancreatic cancer.
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