Erin Moran, "Joanie" from Happy Days dies at 56

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Erin Moran, "Joanie" from Happy Days dies at 56

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No reason for her passing is listed. Seems awfully young to be passing away...
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Drug OD is going to be my guess
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I feel like she has historically been rumored to have drug problems and be in poor health... Like, even before the internet, she was front page tabloid fodder in grocery store check out lines. You never knew whether to believe that stuff, but she was pictured so often that it seems surprising she's lasted this long.
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PeteRasche wrote:I feel like she has historically been rumored to have drug problems and be in poor health... Like, even before the internet, she was front page tabloid fodder in grocery store check out lines. You never knew whether to believe that stuff, but she was pictured so often that it seems surprising she's lasted this long.
She got bumped off the best show on television at maybe the height of the sitcom era to a terrible show, and pretty much never worked again. That might do it to you.
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PeteRasche wrote:I feel like she has historically been rumored to have drug problems and be in poor health... Like, even before the internet, she was front page tabloid fodder in grocery store check out lines. You never knew whether to believe that stuff, but she was pictured so often that it seems surprising she's lasted this long.
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TUPF wrote: Stage 4 cancer. No drugs in toxicology screen in autopsy.
Well, at least no one jumped to conclusions :coolshades: :mrgreen:
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this is why I hate tabloid journalism from yesterday.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/happ ... n-10282065

"Corrected update" from today.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/poli ... s-10288691

I guess the Mirror's libel defense will be they were only "reporting" on what others were saying.
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She died from fast moving cancer, squamous cell carcinoma. Diagnosis to passing in five months.

https://apple.news/A3VBXgzGtRuiBm6BBPrjjXQ
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