Brad Renfo's Last Interview Surfaces

Brad Renfro died in 2008 (Jan 15) at the age of 25 of a heroin overdose. Brad started acting at age 10 and had a promising career in the 1990's. While in recent years he wasn't as popular as Lindsay Lohan or Britney, he too lost his way and eventually lost the battle with drugs. His last movie "The Informers" was released in 2009 while it was filmed in 2007.

Sadly in this last interview which surfaced just recently on youtube by a user named Jay (film maker/director), Brad speaks painfully of how Hollywood and the lifestyle so many think is acceptable will ruin you.

Once a very attractive young man, you can see Brad is a bloated and worn shell of what he once was.

The interview shot in 2007 changes from upbeat to somber and then haunting as he forecasts his own fate: "A lot of people don't make it. They don't live through it." It's sad that he gave such strong advice and was trapped by his own demons.

Renfro gets shafted by the Academy

Just in case you didn't happen to see it, actor Brad Renfro was left out of the "In Memoriam" trubute last night at the Oscars. You won't believe the statement that the Academy gave online entertainment site TMZ.com. "It is simply not possible to include everyone in that segment". The memoriam tribute included 98 people in the movie industry who died last year. This list included actors, studio execs, agents, makeup artists, etc.

It seems to me that Brad Renfro, whose movies include "The Client", "Apt Pupil" and "Sleepers", seems more prominent than Margaret Gardner, the head executive of the international division of a public relations firm. They included actors, studio execs, makeup artists, agents, and on and on. Renfro was nowhere to be seen.

Someone from Renfro's life called the rude move by the academy "unbelievable and disgusting". I don't think they could have described it any better.

Brad Renfro Has Died

Twenty-five-year-old actor Brad Renfro was found dead today in his L.A. home. Renfro, a long-term drug abuser who had been convicted of several drug offenses, had been struggling to stay clean since last summer.

Brad previously starred in such movies as Tom and Huck, The Client, and The Cure, and was recently filming The Informers with Billy Bob Thornton and Winona Ryder.

The cause of death has yet to be determined, but Renfro appears to be another tragic casualty of child stardom and fame gone drastically awry.

UPDATE: Two days before Renfo’s death, he got a tattoo across his back reading F*** ALL Y”ALL. A suicide note in disguise?