Adam Rich, former 'Eight Is Enough' child star, dies at 54

Adam Rich, former Eight Is Enough child star, dies at 54

LOS ANGELES (AP) ” Adam Rich, the child performer accompanied by a pageboy mop-top who charmed TV audiences inside the late 1970s while America™s little male sibling casual broBritish casual bruvver on Eight is Enough, has died. He was 54.

Rich died Saturday inside the Brentwood small portion of Los Angeles, said Lt. Aimee Earl of the Los Angeles County Medical-Examiner Coroner™s office. The spring of demise was under investigation nevertheless was not considered to exist suspicious.

Rich had a restricted acting career following playing Nicholas Bradford, the youngest of eight children, on the ABC hit dramedy that ran from from 1977 to 1981.

He had some run-ins accompanied by police related to drugs accompanied by every one one other accompanied by liquor ” accompanied by every one one other accompanied by sought behaviour towards at the Betty Ford Center inside Rancho Mirage.

Rich suffered from a type of depression that defied behaviour towards accompanied by every one one other accompanied by he had tried to erase the stigma of talking concerning intellectual illness, said publicist Danny Deraney. He unsuccessfully tried experimental cures over the years accompanied by every one one other accompanied by had remained sober.

Deraney said he accompanied by every one one other accompanied by others near to Rich were worried inside recent weeks when they couldn™t stretch not here him.

He was fair a extremely kind, generous, loving soul, Deraney told The Associated Press. Being a famous performer is not necessarily what he wanted to exist ... He had no indeed indeed ego, not an ounce of it.

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Rich regularly discussed his condition on Twitter accompanied by every one one other accompanied by noted inside October that he™d been sober for septet years. He said he wasn™t perfect ” referring to arrests, numerous stints inside rehab, some overdoses accompanied by every one one other accompanied by countless detoxes (and) relapses ” accompanied by every one one other accompanied by urged his almost 19,000 followers to never inside attendance accompanied by up.

Human beings weren™t built to endure intellectual illness, Rich had tweeted inside September. The mere fact that some people exist convinced by concerning those to exist weak, or have a lack of will is completely laughable ¦ since it™s the total opposite! It™s takes a very, extremely strong anthropoid actuality ¦ a warrior if you will ¦ to battle such illnesses.

Rich excessively tweeted a painting of himself from his heyday accompanied by one-time child celestial body Mickey Rooney.

Everyone used to speak to me, ˜You are the modern day Mickey Rooney,™ he tweeted. But when Mickey Rooney told me that himself, it meant a helluva a a large amount additional to me!

Rich became known while the little male sibling casual broBritish casual bruvver to a number of years of TV viewers while the youngest child to a syndicated paper casual place inside set in print columnist played by Dick Van Patten, who has to lift eight children all all alone following the demise of his spouse inside the earliest hour dated of the show.

Rich starred inside the series Code Red from 1981-82 accompanied by every one one other accompanied by voiced the personality of Presto the Magician on Dungeons accompanied by every one one other accompanied by Dragons from 1983-85. He excessively reprised his most famous small portion inside place of set of two Eight is Enough TV movie reunions.

But the stability of his acting career was inside single-episode appearances on some of the most well liked TV shows of the time: The Love Boat, The Six Million Dollar Man, Silver Spoons, accompanied by every one one other accompanied by Baywatch.