Verne Troyer committed suicide by drinking too much alcohol.
So states the official coroner’s report, which has come out about six months after the diminutive actor died at the age of 49.
On Wednesday morning, the Los Angeles Coroner’s Office closed its case on Troyer.
It did so by stating that the man best known for playing Mini-Me in the Austin Powers franchise died of “suicide” and the cause listed was “sequelae of alcohol intoxication.”
You don’t see that term or that cause of death listed very often.
(Sequelae translates to “a condition that is the consequence of a previous disease or injury.”)
When the 49-year-old was taken from his North Hollywood home to the hospital this spring, reports at the time indicated that he had three times the legal level of alcohol in his system.
The possiiblity that Troyer essentially drank himself to death on purpose was floated soon afterward by numerous sources and outlets.
But it had not been confirmed until now.
A year before he passed away, Troyer was also hospitalized for alcohol poisoning.
And, again, chatter that he was trying to kill himself at the time surfaced across the Internet.
Troyer even responded to this rumor in an Instagram post from April of 2017.
“I’ve been hearing from some concerned fans, so I’d like to address a very personal situation,” he wrote back then, adding:
“As you know, I’ve battled alcohol addiction in the past and while it’s not always been an easy fight, I’m willing to continue my fight day by day.
Troyer added that he planned to check himself into a treatment center to “get the help that I need.”
Concluded the actor in this April 2016 message:
“I want to thank everyone that’s reached out with their messages of support, it truly means the world to me. With your support, I got this.”
Tragically, just barely over a year later, he was dead.
“Verne was the consummate professional and a beacon of positivity for those of us who had the honor of working with him,” Austin Power star Mike Myers said in a statement after his friend died.
He added this past April:
“It is a sad day, but I hope he is in a better place. He will be greatly missed.”
After this tragic event, Troyer’s family also released that referred to the small star as “an extremely caring individual” who “wanted to make everyone smile, be happy, and laugh.”
They said that for “anybody in need, he would help to any extent possible.”
Troyer was admitted to a Los Angeles hospital on April 3 with a blood alcohol content of more than three times the legal limit, according to this new official report.
The actor dialed 911 himself, repeatedly saying on the call and when he arrived to the emergency room that he wanted to die.
“Based on the history and circumstances as currently known, the manner of death is suicide,” Deputy Medical Examiner Martina Kennedy wrote in the coroner’s report this week.
