The family of actor Tom Sizemore, who suffered a brain aneurysm following his February 18 stroke, is reportedly considering the recommendation of medical staff to implement an end-of-life plan.
Sizemore, a Detroit, Michigan native, has battled drug addiction since he was 15; his methamphetamine and heroin addictions were documented in VH1’s six-episode series “Shooting Sizemore.”
Sizemore’s manager Charles Lago stated, “We are asking for privacy for his family during this difficult time and they wish to thank the hundreds of messages of prayers and support that have been received. This has been a difficult time for them.”
Sizemore started his career in film in 1989 in films such as “Lock Up,” “Rude Awakening,” “Penn & Teller Get Killed,” and “Born on the Fourth of July.” His career swung upward with his performance in 1993’s “Heart and Souls,” for which he was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Memorable performances in “Heat,” “The Relic,” “Devil in a Blue Dress” and “Witness Protection” followed before his major roles in “Saving Private Ryan” and “Black Hawk Down.”
In 2013, Sizemore released his memoir “By Some Miracle I Made It Out Of There” in which he spoke of his long-time affair with model Elizabeth Hurley. He wrote, “I just loved her. I didn’t see other girls, didn’t talk about other girls – I was completely enraptured and in her world.”
“She taught me a lot about myself,” he recalled. “She taught me that I wasn’t who I thought I was. I’d always thought I was the kind of person who’d never take that kind of treatment from a girl, and what I learned is that I’ll take a lot of things from a girl if I love her, and, in fact, I’ll take too much. I really lost myself in Elizabeth Hurley.”
“Eventually, I was able to get out of my relationship with Elizabeth but I never really got over her – I just moved on out of emotional necessity,” he concluded.
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In a recent interview with Age of the Nerd, Sizemore was asked to what he owed his longevity in the acting business. “My passion for the work. I’ve always loved movies,” he answered. “That’s why I started doing this and after all these years I still adore movies.”
Asked which films “jump out at you as being just the most memorable or the most exciting,” Sizemore replied, “Natural Born Killers was the first leading part in a major production. It was such a unique production and the actors were so terrific. Oliver Stone was at the top of his game, and Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan for obvious reasons. … Heat, Black Hawk Down, Dreamcatcher, A Broken Life, and The Last Lullaby; I truly love those movies. I was lucky to have been given the opportunity to work with many terrific directors.”
