\u201cMost people know Nicky for his work as an actor and for the characters he brought to life over the years,\u201d the family continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn recent years Nicky has found his passion in painting and art. Nicky loved to share his enthusiastic talent with his family, friends and fans. He was passionate, sensitive, and endlessly driven to create.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose who truly knew him understood that his art was one of the purest reflections of who he was.\u201d<\/p>\n
A year after Buffy the Vampire Slayer finished Brendon checked into a rehab clinic for alcohol addiction, reported People.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter realizing that I had a disease that was taking control of my life, I decided that the best way for me to regain my health was to enter a treatment facility,\u201d he said at the time.<\/p>\n
In his 30s, he had troubles with substance abuse, mental illness and the law. In 2015 he was arrested four times for damage to property after damaging a hotel room and domestic violence after fighting with his girlfriend, according to People.<\/p>\n
His family knew about his issues but said he was working on getting better.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile it\u2019s no secret that Nicholas had struggles in the past, he was on medications and treatment to manage his diagnosis and he was optimistic about the future at the time of his passing,\u201d the family said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur family asks for privacy during this time as we grieve his loss and celebrate the life of a man who lived with intensity, imagination, and heart. Thank you to everyone who has shown love and support.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cMost people know Nicky for his work as an actor and for the characters he brought to life…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[17236,18919,92233,178742,6179,7126,156,111,139,24743,69,61492,82314,2737,73841,1299,35919],"class_list":["post-340307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-17236","tag-aged","tag-brendon","tag-buffy","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nicholas","tag-nz","tag-played","tag-slayer","tag-star","tag-vampire","tag-who","tag-xander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}