Danny Bonaduce became a child star when he played the cute redheaded kid on “The Partridge Family.” He grew up with an angry dad, but as Danny
Partridge, he found comfort and a sense of connection with his TV family. Danny Partridge was a wisecracking middle schooler on the TV show who loved making people laugh. When the show stopped, so did Bonaduce’s safe place, and his life went in a different direction.
After “The Partridge Family” finished, the actor said his life was terrible because he had nowhere to go and nothing to do. Bonaduce said that because he wasn’t getting hired and didn’t have any skills, he had some “really not-great times.” Bonaduce was in a bad place, so he turned to drugs, alcohol, rehab, and back to drugs and alcohol. He told me:
“Yes, I lived in my car for a few years on and off. That was strange, and the drugs and alcohol just got out of hand, and the alcohol kept getting out of hand for 20 years. The actor said that for a while he even worked as a paid crazy person. People who knew him as a kid star would point at him on the street and say, “There’s the actor from “The Partridge Family.”
David Cassidy, who worked with Bonaduce, helped him change his life. He went on a tour with Cassidy, but there was no drinking, drugs, or women. Bonaduce didn’t want to go on the tour, but Cassidy kept at him until he agreed.Cassidy asked Bonaduce to show up on time and be very funny during the tour so that he would have a job when it was over. Bonaduce was lucky that a boss came up to him, told him he was great, and gave him a job on the radio.
Cassidy died in 2017 from kidney failure. He had been identified with dementia. Bonaduce still thinks of him as his big brother. The “Bigfoot” star also had a lot of trouble with his health.Bonaduce struggled with a sickness that no one knew what it was until April 2022. Amy, the actor’s wife, heard that something was wrong with his speech and called for help right away.
The star from “Corvette Summer” said he couldn’t walk or keep his balance. He noticed that Amy looked scared when she told him, “You’re not saying words, you’re not speaking English.” Bonaduce said that when he met Amy, he was “in bad, bad shape,” and he didn’t know why she stayed. He was glad she did, though, because she showed him that something in life was worth working for.
When help came, an ambulance took him to the hospital, where he stayed for five days. He doesn’t remember much about those days, though. Bonaduce had to take a sick leave from his Seattle-based radio show because he didn’t know what was wrong with him. He told his friends on social media that he wasn’t feeling well and was still trying to figure out what was wrong. Bonaduce told them that he needed the time off to focus on his health.
Doctors said Bonaduce’s condition wasn’t the result of a stroke, but they still didn’t know what was wrong with him. He was taken to the hospital and given tests, but neither gave a clear answer. Bonaduce spoke up first: “I spoke very slowly. I worried about everything. I was afraid of my stairs, for God’s sake! I wanted a diagnosis but didn’t get one.”Bonaduce’s health problems began with his problems with drugs and alcohol.But he got sober after living a hard and fast life. The star went back to work two months after he got sick for no clear reason. He now tries to persuade his audience to take care of their health and says that he is thankful for all the love and help he got when he was sick.After meeting at Starbucks, Bonaduce’s wife helped him get his life in order. She recently gave a report on the TV star’s health.
After the brain surgery, how does Danny Bonaduce look now? Bonaduce was found to have hydrocephalus after doctors tried to figure out what was wrong with him for a long time. Amy wrote on Twitter that the actor was doing well and gave a report on his health. She said that Bonaduce had surgery because he had trouble walking and keeping his balance.
Amy said that Bonaduce was walking, back on the show, and doing well two weeks after the surgery. Hydrocephalus is a disease of the nervous system that causes fluid to build up in the brain. The signs of this disease look like those of Alzheimer’s disease.It is thought that 1 million people in the US have normal pressure hydrocephalus.
They have signs like confusion, trouble walking, and accidents in the bathroom. Some people have a brain infection, a brain hemorrhage, or a brain injury. People with these diseases are often given the wrong diagnosis, like Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s, and their symptoms can be written off as regular signs of aging because they aren’t very specific.
On June 6, 2023, Amy sent Bonaduce fans a tweet with news. She told him that the star had surgery, which went well, but he did say that it had been a long day. Bonaduce also sent a tweet to his friends that said, “I lived.” He also shared a picture of himself working out at the gym on June 11, 2023. He put “On the road to recovery” as the title.
Amy gave another update on Bonaduce on June 16, 2023, when he tweeted a picture of the star on a trip in Seattle. Bonaduce sat at a table in a restaurant and seemed ready to eat. The 63-year-old man was wearing a black and white striped shirt, a grey sweater, and a black hat. He gave a small smile to the camera and seemed to be getting better. Amy wrote, “Look at who’s out and about.”
Amy and Bonaduce have been with each other through good times and bad. They’ve been together for 12 years now. Since 11 years ago, the star has stopped drinking. He admitted that Amy had helped him stop drinking: “Everyone said, ‘You have to do it for yourself; you can’t do it for someone else.’ Lies, lies, lies. I just did it for Amy, and when that went well, I worked on it every day.”
Bonaduce said that when he met Amy, he was “in bad, bad shape,” and he didn’t know why she stayed. He was glad she did, though, because she showed him that something in life was worth working for. Today, Bonaduce and his wife live in Seattle, where he co-hosts a morning talk show and music show on the classic rock station KZOK-FM with his wife.