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Christopher Lawford, an actor who was one of John F. Kennedy's nephews, passed away. He was 63 years old.
Lawford's cousin, Kerry Kennedy, who is the daughter of Robert F. Kennedy, confirmed the news on Twitter on Wednesday.
"We mourn the loss of my cousin Christopher Lawford, Rest in Peace," she wrote with photos of Lawford at the 2004 Democratic Convention with her son David.
Patricia's son, JFK's sister, and British actor Peter Lawford had a medical emergency in a Los Angeles yoga studio Tuesday night and died of "natural causes," according to TMZ.
With comments, spokesmen from the coroner's office and the Los Angeles Police Department said they had no information to share.
In addition to his important lineage, Lawford was best known for his acting career, with televised roles in General Hospital, All my children and Frasier, as well as movie roles such as those of 2003 Terminator 3: the rise of machines.
In his book of 2016, When your partner has an addiction: how compassion can transform your relationship (and heal you in the process)Lawford talked about his addiction to LSD, which started at the age of 14 and ended at the age of 30 when he went to rehab. He attributed his problems to the bitter divorce of his parents and the murders of his uncles John and Robert.
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Christopher Lawford with John F. Kennedy
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"Friends were trying to get me LSD in seventh grade. I grew up with an ethic of trying to do good in the world and I said no. Then my uncle Bobby was shot. The following autumn, they asked me again and I said with certainty, "wrote Lawford, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
In 2006, he published the memoirs The symptoms of rebirth: a memory of snapshots and redemption, in which he recalled memories such as Marilyn Monroe's dance lessons, watching Judy Garland play poker and spending time with Dean Martin, Sammy Davis and Joey Bishop, members of Rat Pack.
"There are many days that I would like to be able to resume and use (my youth) more appropriately. But all that has brought me here. I can not ask that part of my life be changed and still extract the understanding and life that I have today, with my children, with my friends, with my lover. All of these relationships are the result of all that I have experienced in my life, "Lawford said at the Today & # 39; hui show at once
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