Erin Moran Dies at 56

[Minnie]

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Erin Moran, best known for playing Joanie Cunningham on “Happy days,” has died. She was 56.

According to TMZ, Moran’s body was found unresponsive Saturday afternoon by authorities in Indiana. The cause of death is unknown.

The California-born actress, who also starred in the “Happy Days” spinoff “Joanie Loves Chachi,” had fallen on hard times in recent years. She was reportedly kicked out of her trailer park home in Indiana because of her hard-partying ways.

[KootenayFlamesFan]

Oh man, so young.

[Dion]

Henry Winkler
@hwinkler4real OH Erin... now you will finally have the peace you wanted so badly here on earth ...Rest In It serenely now.. too soon

Ron Howard
✔@RealRonHoward
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.

[CaptainCrunch]

She died fairly young but her lifestyle certainly sent her off.

Reading about her, it sounds like she had some serious mental and addiction issues.

If anything she's another story of child star tragedy.

[Barnet Flame]

Very sad news. Erin Moran adds to a tragic list of those that found fame young and couldn't manage or sustain it in later years. Growing up, it seemed like these kids had it all. But with hindsight, not only did they lose their childhood, they peaked to levels they could not hope to match again.

That must be a horrible place to be.

I hope she has found peace.

[Erick Estrada]

She was living in a trailer park?

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

She was living in a trailer park?

There were rumors that she spend a lot of time living on the streets and in shelters as well.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Barnet Flame

Very sad news. Erin Moran adds to a tragic list of those that found fame young and couldn't manage or sustain it in later years. Growing up, it seemed like these kids had it all. But with hindsight, not only did they lose their childhood, they peaked to levels they could not hope to match again.

That must be a horrible place to be.

I hope she has found peace.

There were a lot of rumors whirling around why she didn't want to do Happy Day reunions.

I think its more then not being able to handle it.

[Dion]

Rumours are she died from a Heroin overdose.

[Snuffleupagus]

Originally Posted by Dion

Rumours are she died from a Heroin overdose.

Looks pretty much like correctamundo.

https://patch.com/indiana/indianapol...d-trailer-park

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

There were rumors that she spend a lot of time living on the streets and in shelters as well.

Man that sucks. It probably can't be easy going from being an actor on a very popular show for a decade and then seeing your acting career taper off. I checked out some stories on the internet and she looked 10 years older than 56 which is probably attributed to the lifestyle she was living.

[CaptainCrunch]

There were stories where all of the cast members reached out and tried to help. Henry Winkler at one time flew out and rented her a apartment to live in and she ended up getting evicted.

Someone posted the 30th reunion center, and she was fairly exaggerated and hyper on that one and my first thought was what is she on.

Its a tragedy for someone to die at 56 like that, but at the same time this might have been a merciful death for her.

[Otto-matic]

CORYDON, Ind. — Authorities say former “Happy Days” star Erin Moran likely died from cancer at her southern Indiana home.

A statement released Monday by the Harrison County Sheriff’s Department says an autopsy revealed the 56-year-old actress had stage-four cancer, but doesn’t specify what type.

http://www.calgarysun.com/2017/04/24...ncer-officials

[Erick Estrada]

Undiagnosed cancer? They make no mention of her being treated for cancer.

[Dion]

After the shows were over, Ms. Moran was candid about the downsides of growing up on screen under the Hollywood spotlight. She said that shortly before her 15th birthday, producers on “Happy Days” began to pressure her to watch what she ate and to wear more revealing outfits. “They suddenly wanted me to lose weight and become this sexy thing,” she said in an interview in 1983.

In the mid-1980s, Ms. Moran swore off Hollywood and left Los Angeles for a home in the California mountains. She told The Toronto Star in 1988 that she had suffered from depression after the two television series ended and acting offers dried up.

“I wanted time off to reassess my life and career,” she said. “I had to ask myself, ‘Do I really want to keep doing this, or do I want to sit back and take it easy for five years, 10 years?’

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/22/a...days.html?_r=0

[Dion]

Erin Morans husband pens a letter about her death and Cancer

“Erin and I met 4/22/1992 and parted ways 4/22/2017. We were planning to go to Thunder Over Louisville to celebrate. She was feeling fine on our anniversary 11-23-2016. Maybe four or five days after we got back Erin woke up and had about a dime size blood stain on her pillowcase. She said I think i bit my tongue. A couple days go by and there’s a bigger spot of blood. We get like 4 days into December, there’s more blood. I get a flashlight and say let me look. It was not her tongue it was her tonsil on the left side. I thought it was tonsillitis,” Fleischmann began the open letter.

“So we went to an ENT who said they wanted to biopsy it. It came back squamous cell carcinoma. She started radiation and chemo. Five days a week radiation and chemo only on Thursdays. We did that the whole time. It got so bad so fast. By the middle of February, Erin could no longer speak or eat or drink. She had a feeding tube implant and i feed her 6 to 8 times a day,” the letter continued. “She was still happy, she was active, she texted people on her phone all day.”

“On the 21st she was having trouble breathing. She woke up on the 22nd, she was not 100%. She needed Kleenex, so i went to the store and came back. She was there watching T.V in bed. I laid down next to her held her right hand in my left. I feel asleep woke up about a hour later still holding her hand and she was gone, she was just gone.. Norton Cancer Institute never said how bad it was,” Fleischmann wrote. “The coroner told me it was really really bad. It had spread to her spleen, she had alot of fluid in her lungs and part of her brain was infected.”

Moran’s widower concluded the letter, “the coroner said even if she was in the hospital being pumped full of antibiotics she still would not of made it. He said it was the best that she was with me and went in her sleep.”

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/celebrity/...201757867.html

[Northendzone]

If it is true about the producers wanting he to wear sexier clothes, that really did not fit with the show