He had a lot of childhood stuff to deal with. She told the LA Times in 1989: "The man was in a lot of emotional pain. In a statement, they said: "We are not unmindful of the problems our son had in his battle against chronic pain and his resulting use of drugs, both prescription and otherwise." His former girlfriend, Stephanie Cozart, once revealed that John turned to drugs to cope with the trauma of losing not one, but two brothers at a young age to cystic fibrosis. John Matuszak in his football days and as Sloth in The Goonies (Image: NBC Universal via Getty Images) And his parents Marv and Audrey Matuszak, believed his chronic pain contributed to his death. Matuszak tragically died from an accidental drug overdose in 1989, aged just 38. He ended up retiring in 1983 after a number of back injuries and subsequent surgery. However, his American football carer, which included also playing for the Houston Oilers and Washington Redskins, left him suffering from chronic pain. READ NEXT: Tributes as famed Bremner, Bird And Fortune comedian John Bird dies aged 86 The hunky footballer even did a photo shoot for Playgirl magazine. So it may surprise people to learn that, before his time in Hollywood, Matuszak won two Super Bowls with the Oakland Raiders in the late '70s and early '80s. Sloth is at one point wearing an Oakland Raiders t-shirt, whom Sloths actor, John Matuszak used to play for back in the 70s. As such, many fans of The Goonies will have had no idea what the actor looked like off-screen, reports The Mirror. You'd be forgiven for not recognising Matuszak when in character - it took five hours in a makeup chair everyday to transform him into the vulnerable Sloth on the film set. The badly-deformed son of the evil Mama Fratelli, whose injuries were caused by being dropped on his head as a child, was played by the actor John Matuszak. Sloth from the hit 80's film The Goonies is instantly recognisable to many movie lovers.
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