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CONNIE STEVENS’ LAST ALOHA!

Hawaiian Eye beauty slowly fading away at nursing home

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DOWN on her luck Hawaiian Eye hottie Connie Stevens is spending her last days as a wheelchair-bound invalid in a nursing home after suffering a devastatin­g stroke and losing her $50 million fortune.

But the 84-year-old showbiz legend, who parlayed playing Cricket Blake on the 1959 detective show into a movie career and a cosmetics empire, is still feisty as hell and doesn’t spend a second feeling sorry for herself, insiders dish.

Just three months ago, frail Connie bravely celebrated her birthday with actress daughters Joely and Tricia Fisher by dressing up as a princess and propping her head up on a pillow. The star of Palm Springs Weekend and The Sex Symbol “doesn’t have an ounce of quit in her” despite her failing body, says a pal.

After a massive 2016 stroke, Connie revealed, “I was in the hospital about 16 days and I couldn’t walk, couldn’t move my whole left side. Now I can and I’m in the pool every day.”

But Joely, 55, her eldest child from a two-year marriage to heartthrob crooner Eddie Fisher, keeps her honest: “She says, ‘I bounced back!’ and I’m like, ‘I don’t know if I can describe what you’re doing right now as bouncing, Mom! But we are happy to have you alive. You have eight grandchild­ren, and they adore you.’ ”

However, Connie’s glory days are gone.

After building a $50 million fortune selling her Forever Spring skin care line on TV’s Home Shopping Network in the ’90s, Connie battled bankruptcy and sold off her beloved Holmby Hills mansion for $17 million in the same year she suffered the stroke.

“Connie’s bravely tried to hold on but, sadly, she’s been on her last legs — quite literally,” notes a source. “Connie wants people to remember her as the beautiful, vivacious actress and mother she was, and doesn’t want anyone to feel sorry for her. She’s lived a wonderful life!”

 ?? ?? Connie, who suffered a massive stroke in 2016, is now too frail to use her walker and needs a wheelchair
Connie, who suffered a massive stroke in 2016, is now too frail to use her walker and needs a wheelchair
 ?? ?? Despite her failing body, Stevens remains upbeat, a pal says
Despite her failing body, Stevens remains upbeat, a pal says
 ?? ?? Connie, in Susan Slade, became a movie star after the success of Hawaiian Eye
Connie, in Susan Slade, became a movie star after the success of Hawaiian Eye
 ?? ?? Second ex-hubby Eddie Fisher with Connie in 1967
Second ex-hubby Eddie Fisher with Connie in 1967

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