PIGHEADED sitcom icon Alan Thicke didn’t have to die!
That’s the tragic conclusion from friends who tell GLOBE the beloved Growing Pains dad ignored symptoms of an impending heart attack — and stubbornly refused to seek medical advice!
“Alan made a big mistake — and it killed him,” a pal told GLOBE. “In the days before his death, he complained of fatigue, shortness of breath, dizziness and an irregular heartbeat.”
Pals told him to see a doctor, but he brushed off their advice “thinking he had a chest cold or minor infection,” a source says.
So his friends and family were shocked when the 69-year-old collapsed while playing ice hockey with 19-year-old son Carter at a Burbank, Calif., rink and later died of a heart attack on Dec. 13.
Find out in this week’s GLOBE if it were possible to have prevented the iconic actor’s death!
