Taxi Actor Jeff Conaway Passes Away at 60

Former Grease and Taxi star Jeff Conaway passed away from complications from pneumonia today. He had been in the hospital for the better part of two weeks, where he had arrived unconscious, according to his sister, thanks to “just too many prescribed drugs.”

Conaway dealt with a very public substance abuse problem in his later years, which he publicized widely on two seasons of Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew.

From the LA Times obit:

In a Times interview in January, Conaway said he had developed an addiction to cocaine and pain pills after undergoing back surgery, and as he tried to quit those drugs on the program, he threw tantrums, shouted and blacked out.

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