And for all of you who did not grow up loving Grease (or worse, don’t know what Grease is), his name is Jeff Conaway. He was also on Taxi and most recently, Celebrity Rehab.
Conaway, who fought a long public battle with pain prescriptions and alcohol abuse, relapsed and overdosed last week on what’s rumored to have been pain pills. His manage released a statement last night acknowledging that Conaway had slipped into a coma after being admitted for his most recent OD:
“He is in a coma and unresponsive at this time. He turned his head two days ago, but nothing since.”
Last year, Molls claimed that Conaway would probably not live through his addictions, as his health has been in such a fragile state for the past decade or so, and it appears that she might be right – Conaway’s physicians have not commented whether or not they think Jeff will wake up from this coma, but the whole vibe I’m getting is that it’s just not going to happen.
Stay clean kids – see what happens sometimes if you don’t?
He’s got manager?
He was on the second season of Celebrity Rehab and he looked and acted like an 85 year old man. It was actually kind of funny watching him and Gary Busey going at it. Very sad now, though, as he was once fairly talented in his earlier years with the whole “Grease” and “Taxi” thing going.
Seriously … and after that fall he took last year, man.
Don’t forget Babylon 5