Gary Coleman‘s ex-wife may have pulled the plug before she was required to.
The “Diff’rent Strokes” star’s living will required the actor to be kept alive unless he was in an irreversible coma for 15 days, CNN reports.
Ex-wife Shannon Price, with whom Coleman was living at the time of his injury, reportedly ordered doctors to disconnect the actor’s life support only one day after he fell into a coma last month following a fall that resulted in a brain hemorrhage.
Coleman had signed a document in October 2006 naming Price as his medical decision maker. His living will stated that his life support should end if two doctors were consulted and decided “my condition is incurable, terminal and expected to result in my death within 12 months.”
The 47-year-old actor also noted that he should be let go if doctors “have diagnosed that I have been in a coma for at least 15 days and that the coma is irreversible, meaning that there is no reasonable possibility of my ever regaining consciousness.”
But according to a spokesman for the Utah Medical Association, a family member’s wishes are more important that the deceased’s living will.
Meanwhile, a judge has ordered that Coleman’s remains are to be cremated this afternoon.
Though the actor died on May 28, his cremation has been delayed because Price and Coleman’s former girlfriend, Anna Gray, have been wrangling over his assets. Both women claim they are legal administrators of his estate as Gray is named in a 2005 will, while Price is named in a 2007 note that Coleman wrote to amend earlier wills.
A judge appointed lawyer Robert Jeffs to control Coleman’s estate while the two women settle the dispute.
Megan Fox gets really tiny for her latest movie, “Jonah Hex,” out tomorrow..
In the DC Comics adaptation, Fox, 24 — who plays the gun-wielding prostitute Lilah — is forced to wear a very tight-fitting corset.
“It’s small,” she tells MTV News. “We got it down to 18 inches. But in the action scenes, we loosened it up, because everyone was afraid I was going to pass out.”
She said her midsection ached even when she removed the corset.
“At the end of the day when we would take it off, it would leave these deep grooves, these deep indents from the boning in the corset,” Fox says. “I’d have it for the whole next day. The next 24 hours I’d be imprinted with the corset. It hurts your ribs!”
By the end of the movie, she says the costume corsets “were all falling apart … I beat them to hell.”
Janine Lindemulder has split-up with her husband Jeremy Aikman so that she can share custody of her daughter Sunny from her marriage to Jesse James, according to Radaronline.
Lindemulder and Aikman, who married only a year ago, mutually decided to call it quits because the former porn star decided that she couldn’t run the risk of losing her 7-year-old daughter as she battles James in court.
And, Lindemulder is prepared to pack up and move to Texas if Jesse decides to take Sunny there, as has been rumored.
A source told the website: “Janine and Jeremy have split. They decided to put Sunny first and the timing just isn’t right for them to be together right now.
“She also has a 19-year-old son from another relationship while Jeremy has his own daughter and a son too.
“Janine had a fantastic time with Sunny the other day and it was as if nothing had changed between the mom and daughter although they had not seen each other for four months.
“But it made her realize how important her daughter is to her and losing Sunny is something that she cannot risk doing at this point.”
Jackie Chan‘s son says he has overcome initial doubts about joining his father in show business, but he prefers making music over movies.
Six years after his movie and album debut, 27-year-old Jaycee Chan said he was starting to shed the baggage of his famous family name and finding his niche in the Chinese-language entertainment industry.
“At first I did (have doubts), but not any more because I found quite a few supporters and fewer and fewer haters,” Chan told The Associated Press with a chuckle. “So I’m happy with what I’m doing now.” But speaking late Monday on the sidelines of the Hong Kong premiere for his new film, “Break Up Club,” the singer-songwriter was keener to speak about his music career. The younger Chan recently released his third album, “Messy,” which he hopes will offer an alternative to the sappy ballads that dominate Chinese pop.
“I’m not that into that. I think music is more than only love.
It can be family love. It can be friendship,” Chan said.
He said he enjoys music more than the trade of his action-star father.
“My music career is actually more important than my movie career because music is me, only. I create them (the songs), I sing them, I write them, I direct most of my own music videos,” Chan said.
He said in movies he felt like a pawn. “People tell me to do this, I do it, I get the money and I’m happy. If the movie does well, I’m even happier,” Chan said. “But if it’s music, that’s on me. If it’s not good, I’m the one to blame.” He penned 16 of the 18 songs on his new album.
Chan said his parents — his mother is retired Taiwanese actress Lin Feng-jiao — are supportive and often give him advice, but he retains control over the direction of his career.
“They want (my career) to be better, so they tell me, ‘You should do this and that,’ but at the end of the day I’m the one who’s in charge of quality control. I try to put my stuff out the way I want to,” he said.
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