A truly inspiring soul who sadly didn't live as long as the happiness she brought
The world is a poorer place without Erin, what a star who dimmed to quickly.
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Erin's mother pushed her into show business when she was around 5. Before happy days she was pretty prolific and worked quite a bit in tv. I don't believe the $900 figure for the show. Neither her or baio came crawling back after Joanie loves chachi was canceled, it was understood from the beginning that if show didn't make it they would go back to happy days. The Minute Maid commercial with Andy gibb and heather locklear was made for Canadian tv and was shot at an amusement park in Ontario. Her hair not fitting in the with the era that it was taking place wasn't uncommon.look at penny Marshall in the last few seasons of Laverne and Shirley, her hair was contemporary and she looked great in the last season but had an 80s look. Also the kids from the last season all looked and dressed like kids did in 1982 not the 60s.share
I think she started to unravel before the end of happy days. I think she could've had a steady career in tv and TV movies for at least a decade after the show ended. I thought the big issue with the lawsuit some of the cast filed was in regards to their likenesses being used and them not getting paid for it. I think Howard and winkler didn't join the suit because both are millionaires many times over. In the early 90s she did give an interview to the enquirer and said she found religion and that her Costars were evil Hollywood sinners. She got out of the cult and seemed to be doing better and had reconciled with the cast even making appearances with them, but slid back into the issues she had struggled with not to long after.
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Thanks for this. I think the news and tabloids made her look like her problems were all her fault. She was kicked out of a trailer park for too much hard partying. Maybe a lot were her fault, but we do not know what else caused her life to go into a downward spiral. Another post backs up it was starting while she was on Happy Days. She could not just take a happy pill and be happy for the rest of her life.
shareJason, you are right. No one can take a pill and live a perfect life. We all have our faults. I'm sure she wouldn't have pick to live such a rough life. I'm also sure she didn't just suddenly decide to get kicked out of her home. I have seen this in those I love go down a very long and rough road it's hard to turn bad habits aside. It is also easier sometimes to go back on the rough road than live life on the straight and narrow. I think it's wrong for tabloids to judge people and make money off hardships of others. It's also wrong that people enjoy wasting money on such trash too. I'm sure it's hard to be a celebrity and see others take joy in reading about your life struggles. I'm not perfect and you bet I'd be embarrassed to see the worst faults I thought about myself spread across the pages of magazines while standing in line at the grocery store.
Erin was human just like each and everyone of us. She needs to be remembered and respect in just that way.
I had wondered if her parents where still alive and where were they during all of her struggles, but her father died at 52 (younger than when Erin passed) in 1990 and her mother died in 2010 at age 75. I think Erin was estranged from them, though.
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