{"id":709877,"date":"2026-06-02T11:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T11:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/709877\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T11:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T11:07:10","slug":"menace-ii-society-star-samuel-monroe-jr-wife-faces-tough-choice-as-brain-deteriorates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/709877\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Menace II Society’ Star Samuel Monroe Jr. Wife Faces Tough Choice As Brain Deteriorates"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Menace II Society’s Sam Monroe Jr.
\n Brain Tissue Deteriorating …
\n Wife Weighs Quality of Life<\/p>\n

\n Published
\n June 2, 2026
\n 12:00 AM PDT\n <\/p>\n

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Samuel Monroe Jr.<\/a> remains hospitalized in Los Angeles on life support with his health rapidly declining … and his family is getting close to making some extremely difficult decisions.<\/p>\n

Samuel’s wife, Shawna Stewart, tells TMZ … a recent CT scan showed the actor is suffering from encephalopathy and his brain tissue is deteriorating due to all his severe ailments.<\/p>\n

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Because Samuel’s immune system is so weak, we’re told he’s in a negative pressure room — a quarantine location — and he currently has a regimen consisting of 6 antibiotics.<\/p>\n

Shawna tells us … she’s the power of attorney and she has to consider his quality of life. She says her husband is a fighter and she’s praying for his recovery, but no decision has been made on where to go from here.<\/p>\n

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As we reported … the actor has been battling for his life<\/a> for weeks in the hospital … requiring multiple blood transfusions in a matter of days, as his body is decimated by MRSA pneumonia and meningitis, among other ailments. He’s been placed on dialysis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Shawna says he’s opened his eyes a few times recently … but she believes that has been a reflex due to the pain he feels when he is moved.<\/p>\n

The family launched<\/a> a GoFundMe as medical bills continue to mount … and they\u2019ve asked fans to chip in whatever they can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Menace II Society’s Sam Monroe Jr. Brain Tissue Deteriorating … Wife Weighs Quality of Life Published June 2,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-709877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}