Adam Rich, the child actor with a pageboy mop\u002Dtop who charmed TV audiences as \u0022America\u0027s little brother\u0022 on \u0022Eight is Enough,\u0022 has died.
Rich’s public life after stardom was similar to that other child actors whose promising careers are later derailed by drugs and alcohol, and run-ins with the law.
Rich suffered from a type of depression that defied treatment and he had tried to erase the stigma of talking about mental illness, said publicist Danny Deraney. He unsuccessfully tried experimental cures over the years.Article content“He was just a very kind, generous, loving soul,” Deraney told The Associated Press. “Being a famous actor is not necessarily what he wanted to be. … He had no ego, not an ounce of it.
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