Veteran actor Max Baer Jr. has spoken for the first time about the moment he discovered his 30-year-old girlfriend had shot herself in the chest in January. The Beverly Hillbilles star, 70, called emergency services after he found Chere Rhodes unconscious from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his Lake Tahoe home on the California/Nevada border on January 27.

According to police, who found a handwritten note at the scene, Rhodes regained consciousness and told cops she had tried to take her own life. She died in a hospital three days later.

And Baer Jr. has spoken of his horror at discovering Rhodes.

He tells USA Today, "There was blood everywhere."

Baer Jr. also reveals that police performed a parafin test on him "to make sure I didn't shoot her."

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Wow.

I thought she had died right away. I didn't know she survived for three days.

Such a terrible thing to have happen.