Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Picture from car accident scene goes viral as Hollywood actor, Leslie Jordan, dies in auto crash.
Leslie Jordan, the beloved actor and comedian has died.
Law enforcement sources tell TMZ Jordan was driving in Hollywood Monday morning when it’s suspected he suffered some sort of medical emergency and crashed his BMW into the side of a building.
LJ became a social media sensation during the pandemic, with his silly video posts helping him skyrocket from about 80,000 Instagram followers to a whopping 5.8 million. He told us on “TMZ Live” his secret was just being himself — a silly, funny, goofy, happy-go-lucky senior citizen.
Jordan was driving in Hollywood Monday morning and crashed into the side of a building at Cahuenga Blvd. and Romain St. It was suspected he suffered some sort of medical emergency.
Jordan was a veteran actor whose credits also included “The Help,” “The Cool Kids” and “Call Me Kat,” which is currently airing its third season on Fox.
While he racked up many credits as a comedic actor, he experienced a different kind of fame during the pandemic — as an internet star. During the early days of lockdown, he posted videos a few times a day, waxing about being bored at home telling stories about Hollywood or showing himself exercising. He amassed a big follow, currently with 5.8 million Instagram followers.
“During the pandemic, I posted twice a day for 80 days,” Jordan told Yahoo Entertainment in 2021. “And my friend called from Tennessee and said, ‘You’ve gone viral!’ And I said, ‘No, honey, I’m fine. I’m in Tennessee with my mother. I don’t have the virus.'” As for his social media success, he said he didn’t have any help: “I figured it out all myself.”
Jordan’s last Instagram post was just Sunday, what he dubbed “Sunday Mornin’ Hymn Singin'” along with musician and songwriter Danny Myrick. “Danny helped me with a new original song that should be comin’ out real soon,” he wrote, signing off with, “Love. Light. Leslie.”
“The world is definitely a much darker place today without the love and light of Leslie Jordan. Not only was he a mega talent and joy to work with, but he provided an emotional sanctuary to the nation at one of it’’s most difficult times,” the spokesperson said in a statement.
“What he lacked in height he made up for in generosity and greatness as a son, brother, artist, comedian, partner and human being,” the statement continued. “Knowing that he has left the world at the height of both his professional and personal life is the only solace one can have today.
Jordan’s internet fame led to a book deal, 2021’s How Y’all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived. In his book as well as in many interviews, Jordan detailed his personal struggles with humor. He battled alcoholism and had multiple DUI arrests that landed him in jail. At one point in the late 1990s, he briefly shared a cell with Robert Downey Jr., with whom he’d later guest-star on Ally McBeal.
“I ended up in the pokey,” he told The Guardian in 2021.”That’s what I tell people: if you want to get sober, try 27 days in the L.A. men’s county jail. That will sober your ass up.” It did — and he had been in recovery for 22 years.
Jordan has said that his struggles stemmed from growing up gay and in conservative Tennessee.
“There’s a line that my friend Del Shores [creator of Sordid Lives] uses that’s so poignant: We learn to hate ourselves in a church pew,” he told Out Smart magazine in 2012. “Until you’ve gone through that — sat in a Baptist church in the 1960s — you can’t understand. There was so much shame over who I was. I’ve been baptized 14 times because I just didn’t think it ever took. I started drinking and doing drugs when I was 14 because that was my way of dealing with being gay — it was a lot easier when I was loaded. When I finally got sober at 42, I was riddled with internal homophobia. What it finally took was me getting rid of all that I learned growing up.”
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