"My beloved daughter Tam passed away at seventeen from an accidental prescription overdose related to the agonizing migraines she suffered, and her heart ailment." She then addressed Lark's death in 2008, explaining that her 35-year-old daughter died "from complications of HIV/AIDS, which she contracted from a previous partner. "Despite her illness she lived a fruitful and loving life with her children and longtime partner," Farrow wrote. "She succumbed to her illness & died suddenly in the hospital on Christmas, in her partner's arms." She said Lark is remembered as an "extraordinary woman, a wonderful daughter, sister, partner and mother to her own children."