Michael Madsen
Just lately Sober Earlier than His Loss of life
… After Years-Lengthy Battle With Alcohol
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Michael Madsen was making monumental strides in his restoration from alcoholism … proper up till simply earlier than his tragic dying.
Sources with direct information inform TMZ … Madsen was sober in latest months, making a constant and valiant effort to show his life round. However, these near him stay unsure about his frame of mind within the days main as much as his passing. Everybody round him hoped and believed he was nonetheless working his program.
The beloved actor spent years out and in of rehabilitation packages as he battled alcohol dependancy … whereas additionally scuffling with melancholy and grappling with private hardships, like a troubled marriage — and his son’s premature dying. We’re instructed he was always out and in of phases of making an attempt to get his alcoholism underneath management.
Regardless of his obstacles, Madsen at all times tried to increase a serving to hand by mentoring others with related troubles at a Malibu restoration facility.
As we reported … the “Kill Bill” star was discovered unresponsive in his Malibu residence final Thursday and was pronounced useless on the scene. His rep instructed us he suffered cardiac arrest, whereas an official reason behind dying hasn’t been launched.
It’s unclear as of now if he had been ingesting within the days main as much as his dying … or whether or not alcohol performed any issue in any respect.
Madsen’s longtime pal and assistant Dougie Smith revealed to us the actor appeared in good well being almost every week earlier than his passing, after a routine physician’s appointment for his rotator cuff … making his dying all of the extra surprising.
Michael was 67.
RIP
