BREAKING – Gary Coleman of Diff’rent Strokes fame has passed away

While we all knew that Gary Coleman, the former child star of Diff’rent Strokes, was in the hospital and things weren’t looking good for him the word just out via CNN is that he has passed away.

It would seem that the two operations doctors had done on his brain following a fall in his home did not succeed as Coleman’s listed cause of death is that of a brain hemorrhage.

Former child star Gary Coleman, who rose to fame as the wisecracking youngster Arnold Jackson on the TV sitcom “Diff’rent Strokes” but grew up to grapple with a troubled adulthood, has died. He was 42.

Coleman died of a brain hemorrhage at a Provo, Utah, hospital, Friday afternoon, according to a hospital spokeswoman. The actor fell ill at his Santaquin, Utah, home Wednesday evening and was rushed by ambulance to a hospital, Coleman’s spokesman had said in a statement earlier Friday.

He was then taken to another hospital — Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo — later Wednesday night.

Source: CNN News