I was almost killed by Manson. Sharon Tate's last words still haunt me

It was late on a summer night when 21-year-old model Ava Roosevelt found herself driving to the Cielo Drive home of her close friend Sharon Tate.

She had planned to join the actress and a group of friends for a nightcap. But as she was traveling uphill, a short distance from Tate’s home, the fuel light suddenly started flickering on the dashboard of her aging and increasingly unreliable 1955 Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn. Her gas tank was almost empty.

Roosevelt looked down at her watch. It was 11.30pm. Fearful her car would break down any minute and with no gas station around for several miles she decided to turn around and head back home.

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