{"id":6634,"date":"2023-03-07T01:13:59","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T01:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drmirkin.com\/?p=6634"},"modified":"2023-03-07T22:41:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T22:41:52","slug":"tom-sizemore-brain-aneurysm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/?p=6634","title":{"rendered":"Tom Sizemore: Brain Aneurysm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Sizemore was a popular and prolific movie actor and television star who appeared in <em>Saving Private Ryan<\/em>, which was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Motion Picture Cast. His notable films include <em>Black Hawk Down, Heat, Natural Born Killers<\/em>, and <em>Twin Peaks<\/em>. He also was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for his role in the television series <em>Witness Protection<\/em>. At age forty, he fronted the Hollywood rock band Day 8.<\/p>\n<p>On March 3, 2023 he died at age 61 from a ruptured brain aneurysm. An aneurysm is a widened blood vessel that can burst. An aneurysm can be genetic, or it can be associated with the lifestyle factors that increase risk for heart attacks, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, excess weight, autoimmune diseases or chronic infections.<\/p>\n<p><strong>An Up and Down Career and Personal Life<\/strong><br \/>\nSizemore was born in 1961 in Detroit, Michigan, and studied theater at Michigan State University. He moved to New York City to perform in off-Broadway productions and began appearing in films and television shows in his 20s. Sizemore&#8217;s filmography on Wikipedia credits him with roles in 193 movies and 37 television series or specials from 1989 until his death in 2023.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vlkj2-3c-Cg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He received many favorable reviews for his film and television work, but he also generated a lot of unfavorable publicity over his run-ins with the law for physical abuse and for drug addiction.<br \/>\n\u2022 In 1996, at age 36, he married actress Maeve Quinlan but they divorced in 1999 because of his drug problems.<br \/>\n\u2022 In 2003, at age 43, he was sentenced to six months in jail for assaulting his girlfriend, former \u201cHollywood Madam\u201d Heidi Fleiss. He entered rehabilitation multiple times in an attempt to overcome his addiction.<br \/>\n\u2022 In 2005 at age 44, he fathered twins but separated from the mother, Janelle McIntire, soon afterwards.<br \/>\n\u2022 In 2010, at age 49, he appeared as a reformed drug addict on VH1&#8217;s <em>Celebrity Rehab.<\/em><br \/>\n\u2022 In 2013, he authored a book in which he described an affair with an actress who was then the girlfriend of a famous Hollywood actor. He also stated that Robert DeNiro tried to help him overcome his alcoholism and even helped to check him into a rehabilitation program.<br \/>\n\u2022 In 2017, Sizemore pleaded no contest to two charges of domestic abuse for assaulting his girlfriend. He was sentenced to 36 months of probation, 30 days of community service and a year-long-domestic violence program.<br \/>\n\u2022 In 2019, he was arrested for possession of illegal narcotics and in 2020, he was arrested for driving under the influence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Death from A Ruptured Aneurysm<\/strong><br \/>\nOn February 18, 2023, Sizemore suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm at his home and was hospitalized in a coma at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center. Bleeding from the aneurysm crushed his brain which fits in an immovable tight container called the skull. By February 27, his doctors said there was no hope, and life support was removed on March 3.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uFLZuZ5v4r8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>Reducing Your Risk for an Aneurysm<\/strong><br \/>\nIf you have a family history of aneurysms, you may be at increased risk but there are no laboratory tests available to predict this condition. The best prevention we have is to follow the rules for an <a href=\"https:\/\/drmirkin.com\/health\/joints\/anti-inflammatory-lifestyle-to-treat-arthritis.html\">anti-inflammatory lifestyle<\/a> that is recommended for heart health:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 trying to exercise every day<br \/>\n\u2022 avoiding red meat, processed meat, sugar-added foods, sugared drinks including fruit juices, and fried foods<br \/>\n\u2022 eating large amounts of fruits, vegetables, beans, whole grains, nuts and other seeds<br \/>\n\u2022 losing excess body fat, particularly in the belly<br \/>\n\u2022 keeping blood levels of hydroxy vitamin D above 30 ng\/dL<br \/>\n\u2022 restricting or avoiding alcohol<br \/>\n\u2022 avoiding smoking and second-hand smoke<br \/>\n\u2022 avoiding chronic exposure to excess sunlight<br \/>\n\u2022 avoiding exposure to X rays and other sources of radiation, and exposure to harmful chemicals such as certain insecticides, herbicides and industrial chemicals<br \/>\n\u2022 treating chronic infections anywhere in the body<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tom_Sizemore\">Tom Sizemore<\/a><br \/>\nNovember 29, 1961 &#8211; March 3, 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Sizemore was a popular and prolific movie actor and television star who appeared in Saving Private Ryan, which was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Motion Picture Cast. His notable films include Black Hawk Down, Heat, Natural Born Killers, and Twin Peaks. He also was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for his role in the television series Witness Protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[671,325,1223],"class_list":["post-6634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-histories-and-mysteries","tag-aneurysm","tag-anti-inflammatory","tag-brain-aneurysm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}