Tom Sizemore has died after being taken off life help, his supervisor Charles Lago confirmed to Variety on Friday. The 61-year-old actor suffered a mind aneurysm on Feb. 18.
“It is with nice disappointment and sorrow I’ve to announce that actor Thomas Edward Sizemore (‘Tom Sizemore’) aged 61 handed away peacefully in his sleep right now at St Joseph’s Hospital Burbank,” Lago stated in an announcement. “His brother Paul and twin boys Jayden and Jagger (17) had been at his facet.”
Lago had beforehand stated on Feb. 27 that “docs knowledgeable his household that there is no such thing as a additional hope and have beneficial finish of life determination.”
On Feb. 18, Sizemore collapsed in his Los Angeles residence and was transported to the hospital by paramedics. There, docs decided that he had suffered a mind aneurysm as the results of a stroke. Sizemore had remained in essential situation since then and had been in a coma beneath intensive care.
“I’m deeply saddened by the lack of my large brother Tom,” his brother Paul Sizemore stated in an announcement. “He was bigger than life. He has influenced my life greater than anybody I do know. He was gifted, loving, giving and will maintain you entertained endlessly together with his wit and storytelling capacity. I’m devestated he’s gone and can miss him all the time.”
Known for enjoying the powerful man, Sizemore rose to fame within the Nineteen Nineties with movies like “Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man,” “Passenger 57,” “True Romance” and “Natural Born Killers.” He received his large break in Steven Spielberg’s 1998 conflict movie “Saving Private Ryan,” wherein he performed Technical Sergeant Mike Horvath. “Saving Private Ryan” went on to attain a greatest image nomination on the Academy Awards. Over the course of his profession, Sizemore has labored with administrators together with Michael Mann, Martin Scorsese, Peter Hyams, Carl Franklin, Oliver Stone, Ridley Scott and Michael Bay.
Sizemore was additionally a convicted abuser. In 2003, he was convicted of home violence in opposition to his girlfriend on the time, and in 2017, Sizemore pled no contest to 2 fees of home violence after being arrested just a few months earlier on suspicion of assaulting his companion.
In 2005, Sizemore was sentenced to a number of months in jail after being caught making an attempt to faux a urine check. In 2007, he was arrested for possession of methamphetamine, and in 2019, he was arrested for possession of “numerous unlawful narcotics.” Sizemore has been public about his struggles with substance abuse, showing on “Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew” and “Dr. Phil” to debate his authorized troubles.
There might be a non-public cremation service for Sizemore’s household, with a bigger celebration of life occasion deliberate in just a few weeks.
