{"id":2318133,"date":"2026-03-08T10:13:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T10:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2318133"},"modified":"2026-03-08T10:13:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T10:13:38","slug":"corey-parker-cause-of-death-what-we-know-after-will-grace-star-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/corey-parker-cause-of-death-what-we-know-after-will-grace-star-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Corey Parker cause of death: what we know after Will &#038; Grace star dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">Corey Parker, an actor known for his role on the sitcom\u00a0Will &amp; Grace,\u00a0has died aged 60,\u00a0his aunt Emily Parker has told <em>TMZ<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">Parker, 60, was known for his recurring role as Josh, one of Grace\u2019s boyfriends in the hit television series as well as appearing in\u00a0the Friday\u00a0the 13th\u00a0film franchise.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">According to a GoFundMe page cited by People, Parker was diagnosed with advanced stage four cancer and revealed an update of his treatment to fans\u00a0last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">He had said\u00a0that radiation treatment\u00a0helped\u00a0reduce pain from the cancer in\u00a0his arm and\u00a0hips\u00a0but had affected his ability to speak and overall orientation, adding that there were preparations under way for hospice care, according to the post.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">Emily Parker said that Corey Parker had died of cancer on Thursday at his home in\u00a0Memphis, Tennessee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\"><em>This is a developing\u00a0story\u00a0to be updated.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"ImageBlock_container__ioAu0\">\n<div class=\"ImageBlock_imageContainer__OPxoe\" style=\"padding-bottom:66.6667%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.newsweek.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corey Parker, an actor known for his role on the sitcom\u00a0Will &amp; Grace,\u00a0has died aged 60,\u00a0his aunt Emily Parker has told TMZ. Parker, 60, was known for his recurring role as Josh, one of Grace\u2019s boyfriends in the hit television series as well as appearing in\u00a0the Friday\u00a0the 13th\u00a0film franchise.\u00a0\u00a0 According to a GoFundMe page cited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2318134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[22062,449170,22205],"class_list":["post-2318133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-corey-parker","tag-television"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Corey-Parker-cause-of-death-what-we-know-after-Will.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2318133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2318135,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318133\/revisions\/2318135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2318134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2318133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2318133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2318133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}