As Dusty made a quick dive for the gun, Prinze pulled away. 357 Magnum * in the other, Prinze calmly sat down on the sofa in his extended-stay hotel room and raised the gun to his head. Standing with the phone in one hand and his. I can't go on." Prinze would then hang up the phone. I love the baby, but I need to find peace. I need to find peace." Then at 3:30am, Prinze made a call to his estranged wife and said, " I love you, Kathy. In one particular call to his mother, the actor reportedly said, "Mom, I love you very much, but I can't go on. But Prinze continued with the emotion-charged phone calls, even while Dusty was still in the room. When Dusty finally arrived at the hotel, he attempted to calm Prinze down and reassure him that he had a lot to live for. Dusty became concerned with the tone of Prinze's phone call and quickly set out for the comedian's hotel, Room 216 at the Beverly Hills Hotel Plaza at 10300 Wilshire Blvd. One of those calls was to Marvin "Dusty" Snyder, Prinze's business manager.
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Early the next morning, he began making a series of goodbye phone calls. Naturally, this didn't set too well with Prinze who would soon find his life unraveling into a downward spiral. Prinze also secured several high-profile stand-up gigs in Vegas, and he performed at the inauguration ball for then-President Jimmy Carter.īad news would come, however, on Januwhen Kathy slapped him with a restraining order. Meanwhile, Chico and the Mancontinued riding high.
His love for the little monsters eventually led him down a rocky road with Kathy who would eventually file for divorce. however, could not shake his other addiction. Kathy would soon become pregnant and give birth to their only child, Freddie Prinze, Jr.įreddie Prinze, Sr. To tackle the female problem, he decided to settle down with a beautiful cocktail waitress named Kathy Cochran, and the two quickly got hitched. But so were the drug fiends, who so often populate the celebrity fringes like pilot fish feeding on the detritus of the bigger.įreddie Prinze would soon find himself addicted to both women and pills. Women were literally crawling all over him. He was a big star, his face graced the covers of numerous magazines such as People, US and Rolling Stone, yet, despite his overwhelming success, he also felt pressure from the Hispanic community, the network executives, and his many adoring fans. By the age of 20, Freddie Prinze's fame was already through the stratosphere as his television show, Chico and the Man was a top five charter in the U.S.
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