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16 Celebrity Drug Overdoses We Should Have Seen Coming By Joanne [46 more lists]
The wildest and craziest celebrities often suffer from drug and alcohol abuse. Here's a list of 16 drug-induced celebrity overdose deaths that, given the star's lifestyle and behavior, we should have seen coming. Celebrities OD more often than we'd like them to, but this list should at least warn us of what we should've seen coming. Video news reports and family/friend stories included next to each celebrity when available. Sadly, there are a lot of famous people with depression, which often ends in tragedy.
- 16An American child actor who starred in Our Gang and Rocky Jones, Space Ranger series.
He grew up before our eyes and with a series of arrests. To name a few, drunk driving, assault, drug possession, and carrying a concealed weapon.
Before long, Scotty was found dead at the age of 38 from a suspected overdose of barbiturates and alcohol. -
- 15An American child actress best known for her title role in the 1982 comedy Savannah Smiles. She struggled with an addiction to heroin in her teens and was never close to her family. She died on May 18, 1997 from an accidental overdose of alcohol and drugs at the age of 21.
This is a clip from the last thing she was in before her untimely death. - 14American actress known for her role as Kimberly Drummond in television sitcom Diff'rent Strokes.
She overdosed on prescription medication on May 8, 1999, a couple years after she was found with no work in Vegas and having gone to jail for robbing a video store. -
- 13An American child actress known for her role as Buffy on the CBS sitcom Family Affair.
After the show was cancelled in 1971, Anissa unsuccessfully auditioned for film roles, and was found dead in a bedroom of a 14-year-old friend with what her coroner has said was the most severe drug overdoses he had ever seen. - 12An Oscar-nominated actor for his 1988 role in Running on Empty, and older brother to Joaquin Phoenix, River Phoenix collapsed on October 31, 1993 outside The Viper Room from a drug overdose of heroin and cocaine, then owned by friend Johnny Depp.
He had bouts of depression and compulsivity leading up to his death and has hinted at child abuse while his family was involved in religious cult Children of God in the 70s.
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