Moran and her husband in 2012. She was kicked out of her mother-in-law's trailer park home.
Posted on 04/22/2017 10:49:35 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Henry Winkler and Ron Howard lead tributes to their Happy Days co-star Erin Moran after actress who played feisty teenager Joanie Cunningham dies aged 56 'of a suspected heroin overdose'
Erin Moran, who shot to fame playing teenager Joanie Cunningham in 1970s sitcom Happy Days, has died age 56.
Authorities found Moran’s body in Indiana following a call about an ‘unresponsive female at around 4pm Saturday.
A source told DailyMail.com that Moran, who lived in a trailer park in New Salisbury, Indiana, died of a suspected heroin overdose.
Her co-stars including Henry Winkler and Ron Howard were quick to pay tribute to her with poignant messages on Twitter.
Winkler, who played Arthur ‘Fonzie’ Fonzarelli in the show, tweeted, 'OH Erin, now you will finally have the peace you wanted so badly here on earth, Rest In It serenely now, too soon,' just moments after her death was announced.
Howard, who played Richie Cunningham, tweeted in tribute to his on-screen little sister, saying: 'Such sad sad news. RIP Erin. I'll always choose to remember you on our show making scenes better, getting laughs and lighting up tv screens.'
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Moran and her husband in 2012. She was kicked out of her mother-in-law's trailer park home.
Rest In Peace Erin.....you made us many of us laugh with the joy of life. You passing and the passing of so many innocent Americans from drug overdoses is sickening. Thanks to our politicians...most of them, with POTUS,Obama at the top of the list, the drug trade with legal or illegal drugs was allowed to grow, unchecked killing millions, Obama has no decent legacy whatsoever. His answer will be to no human being...but God, Almighty, our savior!!!
And...POTUS, George W. Bush was nothing to write about either!!! Our politicians have failed us...but, we are the culprits!!!
This drug addiction stuff is all new to me, I had heard that she was very religious.
Should people be expected to jump in and help a co-worker from 30 years ago?
No, but if you don't help them, don't go all blubbery and sentimental when they pass on. It appears that she was something more than a co-worker from 30 years ago, but a pretty close personal friend, at one time.
FP in the Hartford Courant this morning, all mushy about how Brady, Tebow *provided safety nets* for Hernandez, and he fell through.
Being a good friend is hard. And your friend is damn lucky to have you as a good friend, as your being there shows when so few are.
Your 10er is getting a valuable life lesson ... good job, wardaddy.
Fair enough then the word (update) in the line just like that would distinguish it from the other 3 still on the first page of 50.
I normally let repeat postings go but this one about her just kept popping up over and over again. Yes, we love this format because we can talk about a given news subject, but like any news site we don’t want to see the same news listed several times in one list.
It’s a shame this lady’s life didn’t go better and I hope she’s at peace now. Drugs, alcohol, and bad choices are something everyone is tempted by at some point and depending on the choice; will dictate how one lives their life. It’s sad but also reality obviously.
I remember seeing something about Erin Moran years ago in the news and how her life had really taken a hard turn. Choices. It may even have been her choice to use too much heroin this time so her unhappiness and pain would end. While the religion I was brought up with considers that a sin; I’m not so sure it is under some circumstances. This one could be an exception as well IMHO.
What a surprise. /s
RIP, Erin. Happy Days was a great show...It created the term ‘Jumping the Shark’.
I love the posting police.
We need more such civic-minded individuals.
So many people are going to die from this, including a lot of celebrities. The DEA estimates that there are “more than 600,000 (US) heroin users” (as of 2014), with the number jumping every year.
There was death from heroin addiction of a forty year old man who belonged to my church. Just last week. We know the fellow was saved, but apparently he could not help himself. Prayers offered up for all in bondage to drugs and alcohol.
Wow - sorry to hear it. I’m amazed at how many folks I used to go to school with are dealing with addiction or children’s addiction to drugs/alcohol. Terrible...
Agree. I thought she had become religious and eschewed Hollywood for that reason. The picture upwards in this thread is so sad. RIP, Ms Moran. You gave us many Happy Hours in our past.
“Why didn’t Fonzie and Ron help her when it mattered?”
Who says they didn’t? Have you ever tried to intervene on an addict? Not an easy task. You cannot help someone who does not want to help themselves. Short of the criminal justice system intervening and imposing treatment from within an incarceration facility, you cannot clean up an addict who does not want to get clean.
I should know. My own brother committed suicide when it was obvious he was going to get locked up for his addiction and attached criminal behaviors. He would rather be dead than kick his habit. He got his wish.
Amazing isn’t it how on a die hard conservative site such as this members will post completely contrary comments to freedom and liberty?
This country is a ready made police state already due to the gross over abundance of laws already in place.
Liberty, it was nice to know ya!
“An increased police state did not save Erin Moran, or the 23 year old son of my friends hair dresser who died a few days ago, or a coworkers son who died two years ago... Yes I get the pain left behind, I understand the desire to “do something”. I honestly do not see the answer in an increased police state.”
Very good point.
I don’t know. Whether you intervene with the addiction or with her unemployment which probably pushed her to the addiction. Give the girl a part so she can live in the present and stopped rehashing the glory of the past. But no, everybody in America just leaves everybody else to deal with it on their own....
Sad...may she rest in peace.
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