12 Stars who unexpectedly died of an overdose (With Pictures)

6. Dana Plato

Dana Plato was known in the 1980s for her role on the hit sitcom, Diff’rent Strokes. She played a fun-loving daughter, but her personal life was riddled with addiction and depression. Plato and her fiance visited his mother in 1999 for Mother’s Day. During the visit, Dana overdosed on Lortab, a prescription painkiller. She also took Soma. She was in the RV parked beside her future mother-in-law’s house at the time of the overdose. Almost exactly 11 years later, Dana’s son Tyler killed himself with a gunshot wound to the head. This tragic story points to the fact that issues such as anxiety and depression are sometimes hereditary and can lead to drug use.

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