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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsErin Moran's family unleashes holy hell on 'f*cking coward' Scott Baio
SARAH K. BURRIS
26 APR 2017 AT 06:57 ET
Scott Baios wife has been making apologetic phone calls on behalf of her husband after his assumption that his former co-star Erin Moran died due to drug and alcohol abuse. Moran actually died from complications due to her cancer. Now Morans brother Tony is fighting back, calling Baio out on Twitter.
TMZ reported Tony calling Baio out as a coward and a piece of sh*t and attacking the size of Baios manhood. He was furious Baios wife was the one who contacted him to apologize for her husband and not Baio himself. Even Morans cousin Roy went off on Baio, calling him a d*ck head. Baio made the accusations in an interview Monday.
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My thing is, I feel bad because her whole life, she was troubled, could never find what made her happy and content. For me, you do drugs or drink, youre gonna die, he told The Bernie & Sid radio show. Baio was speculating and didnt have any evidence about Morans cause of death.
Once Baio found out Moran died from cancer, instead of apologizing, he doubled down in a long Facebook post arguing he was misinformed and his actions shouldnt be considered criticism. He swore that he wasnt suggesting she died due to a drug overdose, rather the argument that if she had it would have been horrible.
He then went on to blame political liberals and the media because hes become a target after supporting Donald Trump for president. Im sure theyre attacking me because Im a conservative. These people never attack the press for getting the story wrong about heroin. They attack me, said Baio.
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http://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/erin-morans-family-unleashes-holy-hell-on-fcking-coward-scott-baio/
chelsea0011
(10,115 posts)blueseas
(11,575 posts)JHan
(10,173 posts)Volaris
(10,274 posts)But the first rule of ICFW is, you don't talk about ICFW.
So I didn't say nuthin, and you can't prove otherwise.
Maybe Scotts just applying for a job in the WH with this lol
mucifer
(23,570 posts)are millionaires and continue to work in acting and directing and are well respected by the public.
dalton99a
(81,599 posts)El Mimbreno
(777 posts)Make up a story, then try to back it up or blame it on someone else.
riversedge
(70,309 posts)Initech
(100,104 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)though to be fair, he wasn't the only one assuming.
tavernier
(12,406 posts)but no one else held a neh-neh-told-you-so, judgemental, holier-than-thou soapbox riff. Especially before he knew the cause of death, and ESPECIALLY since they were friends.
But yes, easier to be the victim than to apologize.
Jerk.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)Not all of us were wondering.
.
Many of us were aware of her ill health and did not jump to conclusions.
Baio is an ass!
treestar
(82,383 posts)cast to it.
Henry Winkler had seemed to hint at it the same way but without the judgmental tone.
LeftInTX
(25,563 posts)I'm glad the sheriff's office and ME made an announcement on Monday.
However, Baio should have kept him mouth shut. There was bad blood between him and Erin. He should have just expressed his condolences and left it alone.
Paul Peterson (child actor advocate) also is in a bit of hot water for his comments.
DURHAM D
(32,611 posts)Anyone who judges others in this manner is working overtime to hide a big secret about themselves.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,654 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)out of curiosity.
He is a cigar smoking, womanizing asshole who thinks he is a big shot, but so did all of his non celebrity friends that were on the show with him.
It is not about being a celebrity that makes him a piece of shit asshole, it is about being a republican.
amuse bouche
(3,657 posts)he's so dang rich. Plus his avatar is of himself snuggling trump.
NewRedDawn
(790 posts)I like to have it, but amongst the crowd he comes from a fairly modest $3.5 Mil. So not that rich either Chachi.
crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)I remember a not so great show from my childhood that he was in (Charles in Charge) but nothing since.
And I'll admit that I didn't know who Erin Moran was. That is the name of one of my sister's high school friends so she's who I thought of. I'm a kid of the 80s and Happy Days was before my time.
Orrex
(63,225 posts)Part of the in-series joke is that his lawyer character served as a replacement for the lawyer character played by Henry Winkler, much as Chachi was groomed to replace the Fonz.
Aside from that little Easter egg, the role could have been played by anyone.
Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)as Bob Loblaw.
I didn't care for him, but thought the joke name was hysterical.
As he got the part, due to those mean LIBRULS (Howard and Winkler) he's always bitching about.
murielm99
(30,765 posts)and they watched Charles in Charge. I thought it was harmless and funny for them. I did not know anything about his politics and I would not have forbidden the show over his politics.
My husband and I were very strict about the amount and content of TV viewing for our kids. They often argued with us, saying their friends watched all the TV they wanted. Needless to say, they don't react that way any more!
alp227
(32,059 posts)Did you mean you were born later?
crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)Making me 4 when Happy Days went off the air. I was not allowed to watch much TV growing up and barely watched anything that wasn't a cartoon until the 90s.
NewRedDawn
(790 posts)P.O.S. E.O.M.
Hugin
(33,207 posts)Pathetic.
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)They ought to really love him after this for possessing all the qualities they admire.
JudyM
(29,280 posts)get the red out
(13,468 posts)on if a human life has value, the core of conservatism today. He exemplifies this. The R push to end Obamacare and Medicaid exemplifies this.
Baitball Blogger
(46,758 posts)grew apart, and not in a friendly way. They tried to get her to join them in a reunion and she turned them down, praying for their souls.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Deflect, deflect, deflect.
Blame teh LIBRULS.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,045 posts)Javaman
(62,534 posts)it seems now that has been put to bed.
what a heartless stupid fucking comment he made.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)bathroommonkey76
(3,827 posts)hamsterjill
(15,224 posts)Don't forget Obama. He is to blame for everything in their book, too.
JHB
(37,162 posts)...but not, NOT getting their marching orders straight from the Kremlin. That gig is taken these days by Chachi-in-Charge's team.
oasis
(49,410 posts)Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)hasbeen, crap actor, no talent....sad and pathetic pos!
hamsterjill
(15,224 posts)I think a shot to Baio's jaw might just be the thing to make him think about what he said. It was ugly and uncalled for. Totally NOT necessary for him to have said anything.
Not condoning violence, of course, but I can dream, can't I?
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Thanks to Baio for proving me right.
NewRedDawn
(790 posts)at the inauguration ball? KellyAnne Conjob & his wife was involved too?
rivegauche
(601 posts)Blaming bad ole libruls for his own stupidity. This is the new normal for them. Nothing they say or do counts or matters anymore, because of it's stupid and wrong, then someone else is to blame. The media, Obama, Clinton (any of them), and of course, the terrible scheming libtards.
47of74
(18,470 posts)In their mind personal responsibility is for others, especially minorities. Not for them.
47of74
(18,470 posts)Raster
(20,998 posts)...no one gives a shit if you're conservative, in fact, except for when you run off at the mouth, no one gives a shit about you, period.
#fuckoffscottbaio
rurallib
(62,451 posts)obamanut2012
(26,142 posts)She, as well as others on the HP cast and crew, have said it was literally workplace sexual harassment, and that Baio kept saying he wanted to lose his virginity to her. He would hide in her dressing room and everything.
vkkv
(3,384 posts)supporting Trump.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)yes indeed
jmowreader
(50,563 posts)Soon to be the Number One Show in America, this one stars me and Laila Ali, who beats the shit out of right wingers when they say or do anything stupid. But in Scott's case, we're going to save time and beat him to within an inch of his life at the start of the segment.
Scalded Nun
(1,240 posts)Warpy
(111,358 posts)Say something cruel, double down on it, then blame everybody else. Next he'll tell us it was just a JOKE, where's ya sensayuma?
Asshole.
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)Cha
(297,712 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)She had a long history of it. He shouldn't have made a statement like that until her cause of death was released, though.
The brother over reacted. He's upset after his sister's death, naturally, and very offended at Baio, with good cause.
The brother could have done a more harmful and biting statement, though, a little later, when he wasn't so angry. One that cuts to the bone.
Sad that she died so young.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)We on DU ARE indeed 'piling on' in part because he's a CON, let's call a spade a spade.
We'd find a way to forgive, say ... Ron Howard ... if he'd initially said this same thing, esp. if an OD had been misreported, and that's what he was responding to.
That said, Baio's waffling, liberal-blaming, not apologizing, denying that he was insinuating she died from drugs (I would bet he heard that very thing misreported on Sunday, in fact), and hiding behind his wife's skirt ... to me, that was the egregious part. Not so much what he first said, given the circumstances ... it was, you might say ... the 'coverup' ... that's the real dick move.
As an aside, I'd also point out at that it's not 'unknown' for large doses of opioids to be 'deployed' to provide a compassionate 'way out' for terminally ill/sick patients. Ergo, it's not unthinkable that there's a bit of truth to the story that was in the media Sunday. They eased my very sick 94yo grandpa out of the world in that manner ... at the hospital in fact. Morphine, of course, but ...
bhusar
(131 posts)I Hope her family gets him
What an idiot. When I read what he said I was sickened. As someone who survived Stage 4 Colon Cancer diagnosed in my 40s I felt this was a cruel statement and an insult to all who have walked the cancer path. Guess what Scott, people who are health nuts and eat well and don't do drugs/drink get cancer. I am one of them. So f**k cancer and f**k you Scott Baio. A great friend you were--not-- to Erin.
Different Drummer
(7,650 posts)Nothing new to see here. Move along.
Side note: I would be glad if Tony and Roy find Chachi and give him what's coming to him.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)....like a true Trumpster.
Beartracks
(12,821 posts)... that it is what conservatives do.
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proud patriot
(100,715 posts)what a little prick
mnmoderatedem
(3,729 posts)Tony Moran played Mike Myers in the original Halloween movie. Now he's pissed at Baio. Watch your back Chachi.