Max Baer Jr. Breaks Silence Over Girlfriend's Suicide - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

Brian Damage · 04-02-2008, 02:23 PM

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."

(This news article provided by World Entertainment News Network)

catlover79 · 04-02-2008, 03:51 PM

Wow.

Ireneparalegal · 04-02-2008, 07:08 PM

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

AB · 04-02-2008, 07:38 PM

Such a terrible thing to have happen.

04-02-2008, 02:23 PM	#1
Brian Damage I'm Rich Bitch Forum Icon Join Date: Feb 03, 2002 Location: What Ain't No Country I Ever Heard Of...They Speak English in What? Posts: 63,107	Max Baer Jr. Breaks Silence Over Girlfriend's Suicide 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." (This news article provided by World Entertainment News Network)
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04-02-2008, 07:08 PM	#3
Ireneparalegal LEGAL SPICE ;) Forum Legend Join Date: Jul 25, 2005 Location: OXNARD, CA - WHERE THE DALLAS COWBOYS TRAIN & PRACTICE Posts: 38,691	I thought she had died right away. I didn't know she survived for three days.
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04-02-2008, 07:38 PM	#4
AB Member Eternal Member Forum Icon Join Date: Dec 26, 2006 Location: The South Posts: 59,429	Such a terrible thing to have happen.