Bitterness Till The End

If real life is anything like Park Avenue,

Then Gary Coleman's luxury will be more than me and you.

In this 1980 file picture originally provided by NBC, Gary Coleman, left, playing Arnold, talks with Dana Plato, as Kimberly, and Todd Bridges, as Willis, in Diff'rent Strokes

His death underscored the troubled live of a star

Saying 'Diff'rent Strokes' cursed, is a bit too far.

Coleman has followed Dana Plato's route

There's Todd Bridges's acquitted murder and to drug he hooked.

Young people forced to mature

Fame and luxury - two painted pictures

At Hollywood is Coleman's life zombied.

Enemy to one-self being fifteen years on tv.

When in need of money

He worked his way as a security

Unknown what's life going to be

How far? It's for nobody to see

No real family figure

No real mother nor father

No brother nor sister

No cousins could come together.

Gary Coleman and his Diff'rent Strokes family: [left] dad, Conrad Bain and big bro, Todd Bridges

The cute black boy with white family

His life-long condition, a boost to the classic comedy

The fragile actor, suffering brain hemorrhage

Coma stopped his life at forty-two of age.

A sad ending to a star with laughter

His later life is no better

Parents' neglect made him angrier

Not even a million can make him any happier.

 

Gary Coleman and his wife, Shannon Price

"It's not her fault,"

Gary Coleman says of his wife.

"I always feel like I have the weight of the world on my shoulders every day I get up. ... There are days I don't even want to get up."

On Friday, Gary Coleman got his wish granted.

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 "I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any. 
People will stab you in the back, mistreat you, 
talk about me behind your back, steal from you. 
And they're not really your friends. 
(They're) only there because you're a celebrity 
or because they want to get something from you." 
- Gary Coleman