Erin Moran's Husband Releases a Heartbreaking Statement About How She Died
Happy Days star Erin Moran only knew she had cancer for four months before she succumbed to it, according to an open letter from her husband, Steve Fleischmann. In his emotional letter, he talks about how she found out she was sick, and how she died while holding his hand.
A few days after their wedding anniversary this past November, Moran started to spot blood on her pillowcase. At first she thought she was just biting her tongue, but it kept happening, and Fleischmann thought she had tonsillitis. But a biopsy showed she had squamous cell carcinoma, and Moran quickly started chemotherapy and radiation. But it was too late. "It got so bad so fast. By the middle of February, Erin could no longer speak or eat or drink," he wrote. "She had a feeding tube implant and I [fed] her 6 to 8 times a day."
On April 21, she started to have trouble breathing, and wasn't feeling well on April 22. "She was there watching TV in bed. I laid down next to her held her right hand in my left," he wrote. "I [fell] asleep woke up about [an] hour later still holding her hand and she was gone, she was just gone." After her death, a coroner found the cancer had spread to her spleen, she had fluid in her lungs, and she had a brain infection. "The coroner said even if she was in the hospital being pumped full of antibiotics she still would not [have] made it," he wrote. "He said it was the best that she was with me and went in her sleep."
Fleischmann, who had been with Moran for 25 years, urged his loved ones to share the letter, because the media scrutiny since Moran's death has been "relentless." Moran's Happy Days and Joanie Loves Chachi costar, Scott Baio, shared the message on his Facebook page, and you can read the full letter below.
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