Strolling Lifeless Alum Reveals Stage 4 Most cancers Analysis; Forged and Crew Rally Round ‘One in all Our Personal’
The Walking Dead household is exhibiting up for considered one of their colleagues amid a critical medical disaster.
Franchise CCO revealed Monday that Erik Jensen — who in Season 5 performed Steven Edwards, the weaselly Grady Memorial physician for whom ill-fated Beth Greene briefly labored as an assistant — has been identified with Stage IV colorectal most cancers.
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Gimple shared the sobering information on social media, and pointed followers to a GoFundMe web page created on the actor’s behalf.
“One in all TWD‘s personal may use a little bit assist,” Gimple wrote on X (previously often called Twitter). “Erik Jensen, who performed Dr. Steven Edwards in S5 was simply identified with most cancers, and it’s a time of nice uncertainty for him and his household.”
The GoFundMe web page says Jensen and his household — which incorporates his spouse Jessica and their 13-year-old daughter Sadie — “are in for the combat of their lives,” including, “Erik and Jess… are full-time freelance artists and stay with out the cushion that long-term business work can present.” The twin Hollywood strikes solely compounded their “extraordinarily precarious monetary place,” leaving them in “want plenty of assist to make it by way of the following yr, pay for remedy, preserve their dwelling and keep some form of stability for Sadie.”
The message concludes on this hopeful notice: “Stage IV shouldn’t be a demise sentence, and Erik is working extremely exhausting to remain optimistic and combat for the shot that his medical doctors say he has.”
Strolling Lifeless vet Jeffrey Dean Morgan — who’s coming off of Season 1 of AMC’s TWD: Lifeless Metropolis spinoff — echoed Gimple’s name to motion Tuesday on X, writing, “By no means had the prospect to work with Erik. [But] have heard many issues about what an excellent man he’s. I do know he and his [family] may use some assist.”
Along with his recurring function on The Strolling Lifeless, Jensen’s TV credit embrace Mr. Robotic, Mindhunter, The People and 30 Rock.
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