Posted on 05/19/2011 5:04:15 PM PDT by Morgana
Actor Jeff Conaway, best known for his role in the hit musical "Grease", is in a coma fighting for his life after an apparent drug overdose. Family members said the 60 year old was rushed to a Los Angeles hospital after being found unconscious at his home in Encino, California.
He is reported to have become addicted to pain killers after falling down a flight of stairs in January 2010 breaking a hip, arm and fracturing his neck but has a long history of substance abuse.
The troubled actor has battled drink and drug addiction for many years and has featured on a US reality show where Hollywood stars are sent into rehab.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Brock, who had advised his client against appearing on reality shows, said Conaway had a rough childhood.
“When he was 7 years old, his grand-mother let him taste the moonshine she made in her bathtub; when he was 10 and a child actor, his dad took all his money and ran away. Later, Jeff had a the world in his hand and would find ways to destroy it,” Brock told Reuters.
Brock said that in the last month, Conaway’s “Grease” co-star John Travolta offered to pay for the troubled actor to go to rehab.
“Jeff wasn’t opposed to it, but he wasn’t ready yet,” said Brock.
Brock said that since the news of Conaway’s hospitalization, his office has been flooded with calls from the actor’s childhood and high school friends, offering well wishes.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/19/us-jeffconaway-idUSTRE74I6P920110519
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I liked him in “Babylon 5.”
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