Michael Madsen‘s physician is shedding gentle on the actor’s reason for demise.
The longtime Quentin Tarantino collaborator died from coronary heart failure, with coronary heart illness and alcoholism as contributing components, his heart specialist instructed NBC4 Los Angeles. He was 67.
Madsen was discovered unresponsive at his Malibu, Calif., residence on July 3. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division instructed the outlet that he was pronounced lifeless on the scene of pure causes, with no foul play suspected.
Within the wake of his passing, his sister Virginia Madsen mentioned the household was “not mourning a public determine,” however slightly “flesh and blood and ferocious coronary heart.”
“He was thunder and velvet,” the Candyman actress instructed Selection in a July 3 assertion. “Mischief wrapped in tenderness. A poet disguised as an outlaw. A father, a son, a brother—etched in contradiction, tempered by love that left its mark.”
Remembering the Reservoir Canine alum as a person who “stormed via life loud, good, and half on hearth,” she added, “I’ll miss our inside jokes, the sudden laughter, the sound of him. I’ll miss the boy he was earlier than the legend; I miss my huge brother.”