Death of David Gail, ‘Port Charles’ Star, Was Drug Related, Publicist Says

David Gail, the “Port Charles” and “Beverly Hills, 90210” actor who died in a Tampa, Fla. hospital on Jan. 16, had been intoxicated from a mixture of medication and alcohol that prompted him to enter cardiac arrest, his publicist stated on Tuesday.

Numerous medication had been discovered Mr. Gail’s system, together with amphetamines, cocaine, alcohol and fentanyl, in response to an announcement from the publicist, Linda Brown. The cardiac arrest led to a mind damage, which finally prompted his demise days later, she stated.

The Hillsborough County Medical Examiner didn’t instantly reply to a request for Mr. Gail’s post-mortem report on Tuesday night.

The household beforehand stated that Mr. Gail, 58, had died from problems from a sudden cardiac arrest.

Paramedics who discovered Mr. Gail after he went into cardiac arrest carried out CPR and used a defibrillator to attempt to revive him, however he finally wound up on life help on the hospital, in response to Ms. Brown.

Mr. Gail’s mom, Mary Painter, stated within the assertion that her son had for years been reliant on medicine to handle ache from hand and wrist surgical procedures that stored him out of labor for almost a decade.

“It breaks my coronary heart to study my son died this manner,” Ms. Painter stated, including, “I can solely assume that his former dependence performed an element in self-medicating from uncontrolled sources.”

Her son’s demise, she stated, highlighted victims of pharmaceutical habit and the fentanyl epidemic.

Mr. Gail had a bountiful tv appearing profession within the mid- to late Nineteen Nineties, together with his most outstanding position, as Dr. Joe Scanlon on the “General Hospital” spinoff present “Port Charles.” Mr. Gail performed Dr. Scanlon in 216 episodes in a single season, which ran in 1999 and 2000, in response to IMDb.

Years earlier than that, Mr. Gail appeared on eight episodes of “Beverly Hills, 90210,” taking part in a minor half in an episode within the first season and returning to the present for the fourth season in a extra established position.

“When I got here again it was such a shock, I used to be asking, ‘How may I presumably come again?’” Mr. Gail stated about his return on the “Beverly Hills Show Podcast” in 2021.

“But it labored,” he added.

He additionally made dozens of appearances in quite a lot of tv reveals all through the Nineteen Nineties and several other movies within the 2000s.