Mia Farrow’s son Thaddeus was found early yesterday afternoon in Danbury, Connecticut, suffering from injuries from a car accident. He was transported to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:30 p.m.
Heartbreaking details from ONTD:
Farrow adopted Thaddeus from India in 1994. A victim of polio and unable to walk or speak, he had been chained to a post in the yard of an orphanage in Calcutta, where other children would throw rocks at him to hear the growls he made. Full of rage, he would at first only scream and bite Farrow and try to pull her hair out. But under her care, he eventually learned to walk with leg braces and crutches and to speak fluently.
He was previously employed as an auto mechanic and attended a criminal-justice program at a Connecticut college. In a November 2013 Vanity Fair profile of the family, his brother Isaiah described Thaddeus as “the hidden gem of the family. He is such a hard worker.”
He is the third of Farrow’s 14 children to die tragically young. Her daughter Tam died of congenital heart failure in 2000 at age 19, and her daughter Lark died of AIDS-related pneumonia at age 35 in 2008.
UPDATE: TMZ is now reporting that Thaddeus Farrow died of a gunshot wound to the torso, with the death ruled as a suicide.
Mia tweets:
— mia farrow (@MiaFarrow) September 22, 2016
