[yesthatjallen]

I don't know who he was and I don't follow celebrity gossip.

However, I saw the headline and clicked on the story to find out how he died (another celebrity suicide?) and I found this:

"Jackson was found “unresponsive in a sober living home”.

Sober living home?

Was he an alcoholic at age 20?

[dfwgator]

Hollywood is an evil place for a child to grow up in.

[VeniVidiVici]

Guess it wasn’t too sober.

[x]

Sober isn’t just about alcohol nowadays.

[ZinGirl]

So young...so so young. :(

[BenLurkin]

Can happen

[Blue Jays]

"...I don’t know who he was and I don’t follow celebrity gossip..."

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Same here. I am not even feeling sufficiently compelled to Google him or those movies/shows.

[Cicero]

Never heard of him, but he looks like a decent guy:

[Bonemaker]

“Sober living home?

Was he an alcoholic at age 20? “

Sounds like a PC term for a drunk tank.

[Rastus]

I watch the Goldbergs but I don’t remember him.

[Robert DeLong]

Was he an alcoholic at age 20?

More likely addicted to opiates.

[SMGFan]

Sad, it looks like he has had little work in past years.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2909628/

[SoFloFreeper]

He’d also appeared in several episodes of Nickelodeon comedy “iCarly,” starring opposite Jack Black and Miranda Cosgrove.

imdb.com has him on only 1 episode of "iCarly", unless I am reading the information incorrectly.

so either i have poor cognitive skills or this is poor journalism.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Sad. RIP.

[Gay State Conservative]

Isn't “The Goldbergs” one of the current shows that features a pervert “couple”?

[Calvin Locke]

Was he an alcoholic at age 20?

Worked with guy once. He said he attended a Parochial HS in Brooklyn, and lots of kids drank before classes and were essentially alcoholics, including himself.

He said he enlisted in the Navy upon graduation, to sober up, figuring no booze on ships.

It worked for him.

[radiohead]

/Was he an alcoholic at age 20?

When my son went to Michigan in the mid 1990’s, ‘substance free’ dorm living was available. Though technically, pot was illegal and most freshmen were too young for liquor and cigarettes, UM understood that these activities took place anyway.

The substance free areas were created because young people were coming to college having already suffered from addiction and alcoholism and needed a sober living environment. I went to UM in the mid 1970’s when there were a lot of drugs going on and even I was surprised, as a parent, to see how bad things had gotten for some kids.

My son didn’t have these issues, but chose to live in the substance free space because he didn’t want to be around a bunch of drug/alcohol-addled students and wanted a calm dorm environment. I think my stories of some really bizarre happenings in the dorm due to drunks and people high on LSD may have worried him. : )

So, alcoholic at 20? Apparently. And at 17 and 18 as well.

[Wuli]

Note to parents: Hollyweird is no place for your children, not even for them working there.

[so_real]

Perhaps the recent suicides ("suicides"?) are really warnings to all the would-be-testifiers to the pedophilia rampant in hollywood and government. And, if so, the only means for the victims to truly secure their safety is to come out loud and clear spilling their guts now about who abused them so we can deal with the perpetrators of the crimes. Put them on their heals and running. Talk to us --- we are listening.

[JimRed]

Drugs, no doubt. Another victimless crime.