600 mourners say goodbye to the young star
Wednesday, 23 January 2008
Brad Renfro was laid to rest in his hometown of Knoxville, Tennessee on Monday.
Over 600 mourners showed up to pay their respects to the 25-year old actor whose cause of death remains undetermined.
The former child star – who found fame in John Grisham’s The Client – was found unconscious in a friend’s apartment last Tuesday.
During the service Brad’s great uncle paid tribute to the troubled actor, reports Knoxville’s News Sentinel.
‘Brad had problems just like I have problems, just like you have problems, just like all of us have trials and tribulations that we go through,’ he said.
Since he death, it has emerged that Brad had fathered a secret son, believed to be living in Japan with his mother.
‘We’re very thankful Brad got to see his son before he died,’ Brad’s stepmother Kim Renfro tells TMZ.
Meanwhile, Hollywood is still reeling from the death of another young Hollywood star.
Heath Ledger, 28, was found dead in his apartment yesterday afternoon – the cause of death is still not known.
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