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Child actor Blake Garrett died in February at 33.
The How to Eat Fried Worms actor had been living at a sober living house in Tulsa, Okla.
Authorities have explained that his death was an accident.
How to Eat Fried Worms actor Blake Garrett died of acute fentanyl toxicity, the Oklahoma Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has ruled, according to both Us Weekly and TMZ. His death was ruled an accident.
Garrett, 33, had been living at a sober living house in Tulsa, Okla., when he died Feb. 8.
Entertainment Weekly has reached out to the medical examiner.
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Garrett’s mother, Carol Garrett, told TMZ in February that he’d been sober for three years. She worried about him having balanced that with treating his “intense pain” from shingles, with which he’d been diagnosed just a week before he died.
The Mayo Clinic describes shingles as a rash that can be “very painful.” It’s “caused by the varicella-zoster virus — the same virus that causes chickenpox. After you’ve had chickenpox, the virus stays in your body for the rest of your life. Years later, the virus may reactivate as shingles.”
Carol Garrett said her Texas-born son had lived a good life in Oklahoma over the last few years.
The younger Garrett was best known for playing Plug in the 2006 movie adaptation of the 1973 book by Thomas Rockwell. He portrayed the sidekick of the bully who bets a boy that he can’t eat 15 worms in 15 days.
In addition to Garrett, the cast included Tom Cavanagh, Clint Howard, Andrea Martin, James Rebhorn, and Kimberly Williams-Paisley.
Blake Garrett in ‘How to Eat Fried Worms’ in 2006
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Hallie Eisenberg was one of the other child actors who were awarded the prize for Best Young Ensemble in a Feature Film at the Young Artist Awards in 2007. (Eisenberg was also nominated in the Young Supporting Actress category, but she didn’t win.)
Earlier in his career, Garrett had appeared in the 2004 video Barney’s Colorful World, Live! and toured with Barney internationally. He worked on the stage shows Peanuts: A Charlie Brown Tribute and Aladdin and His Magical Lamp.
How to Eat Fried Worms was his only movie.
While he wasn’t in the film industry long, Garrett gave an interview in which he described a fun and kid-friendly set.
“There was one scene where we were riding on a gravel road and got to slide to a stop,” he told The Oklahoman in 2006. “The guys who could ride worked on that scene. They had a camera on the ground, and in one scene I slid and gravel hit the camera. They really liked that shot, and that’s the one they used in the movie.”
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