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Death Spiral: LA Times explores Brad Renfro’s tragic addictions
Posted By katie allison granju
There’s a major feature in the LA Times today about the troubled life and tragic death of Brad Renfro:
BRAD RENFRO had insisted over the phone that he was clean. That’s what the teen actor, hot from his performances as a troubled youth with sad eyes in such films as “The Client” and “Sleepers,” told director Larry Clark. Clark, one of America’s foremost chroniclers of teenage desperation, had just cast Renfro as the lead in “Bully,” his true-life tale of a bunch of pot-smoking Florida teenagers who murder the local bully.
But then Clark met his 18-year-old star.
The director, who’d once battled heroin addiction himself, stopped by Renfro’s Knoxville, Tenn., home on the way to the film’s Florida location. It was the summer of 2000, and Renfro emerged from the house that he shared with his grandmother with blood streaming down his arms. He was bloated and looked 35. And so continued a painful, downward spiral — one of the most excruciating Hollywood has seen of late.
Feb 8th, 2008
