Friday June 5, 2009

David Carradine — who was found hanging in his Bangkok Hotel room Thursday Morning — had been struggling with financial concerns, according to a new report.

According to Fox News, Carradine desperately reached out to some friends in the business that he hadn’t been in contact with for quite some time just weeks ago, asking them to do whatever they could to help him.

“David had been trying to make some fast cash doing personal appearances and things,” a source said. “It was a rough year for him, and he was a big spender and always in debt, but he wouldn’t have killed himself over finances. He wouldn’t have hung himself, that was too much effort. His ego would never have let him do that.”

(David Carradine’s Rep Denies Suicide Reports)

Nathan Folks, Producer of the 2004 film Last Goodbye, in which Carradine starred with his daughter Kansas, insisted Carradine was “definitely not” suicidal.

Bai Ling — who worked with Carradine on the action comedy Crank: High Voltage, which was released earlier this year — also gave her opinion on the actor’s death.

“I don’t believe he would have killed himself. Even though he was a very complicated man he was so at peace with himself. He did so many good things and really wanted to do more things, he told me his career was just really starting and new,” Ling said. “You can see thru his eyes he is a complicated but funny person – he spent 20 years mainly doing independent films which I think made him have a lot of interesting thoughts in his head. But he really was someone who was full of life.”

Kill Bill star Carradine was part of the famed Hollywood acting family that included his father, John Carradine, brother Keith and niece Martha Plimpton.

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