Michael Madsen
Lately Sober Earlier than His Dying
… After Years-Lengthy Battle With Alcohol
Revealed
Michael Madsen was making monumental strides in his restoration from alcoholism … proper up till simply earlier than his tragic dying.
Sources with direct data 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 way of thinking 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 applications as he battled alcohol habit … whereas additionally scuffling with despair and grappling with private hardships, like a troubled marriage — and his son’s premature dying. We’re informed he was always out and in of phases of attempting to get his alcoholism beneath management.
Regardless of his obstacles, Madsen all the time 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 house final Thursday and was pronounced useless on the scene. His rep informed 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 consuming within the days main as much as his dying … or whether or not alcohol performed any issue in any respect.
Madsen’s longtime buddy 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 stunning.
Michael was 67.
RIP