The diminutive Coleman, who suffered from a congenital kidney disease that halted his growth, was hospitalized Wednesday night after suffering an intracranial hemorrhage at his home in Santaquin, Utah. Media reports said he had fallen and hit his head. On Thursday, he was conscious and lucid in the morning, but in the afternoon his condition worsened. He slipped into unconsciousness and was placed on life support at the Utah Valley Regional Medical Center.
Born February 8, , in Zion, Illinois, Coleman was an adopted son who suffered a condition known as focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, an autoimmune disease that alters the kidneys. Money became tight, and Coleman filed for bankruptcy in As Coleman matured, he became known for his hot temper, which resulted in several high-profile assault cases.
In , he was charged with assault after allegedly punching a woman who sought an autograph from the actor. He pleaded "no contest" to the charge, and was ordered to pay the victim's hospital bills. In July , Coleman was again arrested, this time for disorderly conduct when a heated argument with his girlfriend, actress Shannon Price, got out of control. Despite their difficulties, the couple wed secretly in August of that same year. But by , they were already having marital problems.
They headed to TV's Divorce Court to settle their issues, airing their grievances for rapt audiences in May of The couple would stay together and, a year later, they were again embroiled in a domestic dispute.
Both parties were cited for disorderly conduct. But these conflicts with the law didn't resonate with Coleman, and in he was charged with domestic violence again, and placed in jail overnight. Coleman has also made headlines recently for his failing health. He suffered a seizure on the set of The Insider on February 26, Sadly, the pint-sized phenomena outgrew his chubby-cheeked welcome and found the course of his grown-up Hollywood career brutally rough and patchy.
He was born Gary Wayne Coleman on February 8, , to a homeless woman, and was adopted by a fork-lift operator and his nurse practitioner wife from a Chicago hospital when he was just a few days old.
Raised in Zion, Illinois, it was discovered that little Gary had severe health issues before the age of 2. Born with one atrophied kidney and an endangering weak second one, he had two kidney transplants by the time he reached age 16 and the effects of his dialysis medication permanently stunted his growth to 4'8". A highly precocious comedy cut-up on-camera, Gary proved a natural in local Chicago commercials.
As his commercials spread nationwide, audiences began wondering just who this diminutive dynamo was. Norman Lear 's talent scout spotted him in a Chicago bank commercial he was 9 at the time and decided to reveal to the world who the little guy was.
Brought in to brighten up such Lear sitcoms as "The Jeffersons" and "Good Times" the latter as a friend of little Janet Jackson 's character , NBC quickly recognized the boy's comedy prowess and handed the year-old his own prime-time sitcom playground to mug in. While Diff'rent Strokes 's underlying approach was to preach racial and social tolerance it revolved around two lower-class African-American brothers from Harlem who are taken in and adopted by a wealthy, debonair Park Avenue white man after their housekeeper mother dies , the show's powers-that-be smartly deduced that it was the wisecracking gifts of young Coleman, who played the youngest brother, Arnold Jackson, that gave the show its spark.
Legendary comics such as Bob Hope and Lucille Ball absolutely gushed about the little boy's comedy genius and Gary soon became a hit on the talk show circuit, trading clever banter with the likes of Johnny Carson among others. Collins and Playing with Fire All of them wisely centered around Gary's adorable persona. Topping it all off, the Hanna-Barbera-produced series The Gary Coleman Show produced an animated version of the child star.
Like many others in his shoes, however, the aging Coleman felt trapped and pigeonholed by his stifling juvenile image and begged to get out from under it.
The year-old was truly thankful when the series ended in Coleman found, however, that a very fickle public was not as receptive to seeing him grow up. Like fellow TV star Emmanuel Lewis , Coleman began aging in appearance but remained trapped in the body of a young boy and the contrast proved too strange for audiences.
As a result, Hollywood had little resources as to what to do with Gary Coleman the man. It wasn't long before Coleman was reduced to making weird guest appearances and small parts in even smaller films.
This crash course in reality triggered an increasingly erratic and aggressive behavior in Gary Coleman as he became increasingly angry and bitter about his lack of work when he was so used to be on top of everything. The subsequent tragedies suffered by all three young stars from the "Diff'rent Strokes" show, in fact, was sold out as a jinx package known as the "Diff'rent Strokes curse".
While distaff co-star Dana Plato fell heavily into drug addiction, petty crime and pornography before taking her own life in , Todd Bridges , who played Coleman's older brother, battled major cocaine abuse and was later charged but acquitted of attempted murder in the late s.
In addition to his life-long health issues, Gary's adult problems came in the form of scattered financial and legal entanglements, as well as scrapes with the law.
He was once arrested in for punching a persistent female autograph fan, in which he was fined and ordered to take anger-management classes. This became tabloid fodder for late night comics who joked that he must have landed "several good uppercuts. He would admit that the tally of his life problems led to more than a few feigned suicide attempts.
Despite the large settlement, all of the money was soon spent on taxes, legal fees, as well as his increasingly high medical bills for his continuing dialysis treatments. With arnold Schwarzenegger taking over his new parents were faced with a kidney!
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