Grant played one of the furry Ewoks that aided Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and the rebel alliance during their fight against the Empire in the 1983 film.
“I need help. I’ve been on cocaine and it has just got worse,” Grant confessed. “I’m drinking and smoking what I can get.”Grant had played a goblin in “Labyrinth.”Grant said his life had been on the decline ever since he split up with his wife, Janet Crowson, which he blamed on the fact that he’d cheated on her several times and had gone “AWOL.” He said things snowballed to the point that his family “disowned” him and his career opportunities “dried up.
“I had a family, I was married, now I’m divorced. I’ve lost everything,” said Grant, who also spent time in jail for assault, according to the Mirror.“I’m devastated,” said his daughter, Sophie Jayne Grant. “My dad was a legend in so many ways.The ewoks from “Star Wars Episode VI: Return Of The Jedi .”Grant’s girlfriend Maria Dwyer, 64, called the late star “the love of my life” and “the funniest man I know.”“He was a lovely bloke,” said an unnamed family friend.
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