TORONTO — Actors Jared Padalecki and LeVar Burton took some heat Sunday for their tweets about the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Hoffman was found in dead in a New York City apartment of a suspected drug overdose.
Padalecki, who stars in the made-in-Vancouver series Supernatural, tweeted: “‘Sad’ isn’t the word I’d use to describe a 46 year old man throwing his life away to drugs. ‘Senseless’ is more like it. ‘Stupid’.”
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After coming under fire on social media, Padalecki deleted the tweet and offered clarification.
“I didn’t mean PSH is stupid or that addiction isnt a reality. I simply meant I have a different definition of ‘tragedy,'” he tweeted.
“When I think ‘tragedy’, I think of St Judes, of genocide, of articles I read in the paper. But, yes, either way, a death, is sad.”
Burton, meanwhile, was criticized for tweeting: “Damn, #PSH was SO talented! However, if Y’all should find me dead with a needle in my arm, in my underwear … please put my pants on.!”
When one follower responded with “Not cool, dude,” Burton tweeted: “Not cool is shooting up when you got kids… #areyoukiddingme.”
Burton added: “No matter how you slice it, PSH wasted a great gift! Lash out at me if you want to… I ain’t going’ out like that!”
Here are a few of the tweets critical of Padalecki and Burton:
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