{"id":525277,"date":"2026-07-14T08:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T08:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/525277\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T08:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T08:33:09","slug":"how-to-eat-fried-worms-actor-blake-garretts-death-ruled-accidental-overdose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/525277\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Eat Fried Worms actor Blake Garrett\u2019s death ruled accidental overdose"},"content":{"rendered":"
Carol told the outlet her son had been living a \u201cgood life\u201d in the past three years and had \u201ctruly turned things around\u201d after a rocky patch.<\/p>\n
The late actor was best known for starring in How to Eat Fried Worms, which is loosely based on Thomas Rockwell\u2019s 1973 children\u2019s book of the same name, opposite James Rebhorn, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Tom Cavanagh and Philip Bolden.<\/p>\n
Blake Garrett was living in a sober house in Tulsa and had been diagnosed with shingles before his death. Photo \/ Blake Garrett<\/p>\n
He won a Young Artist Award for Best Young Ensemble Cast for the movie, but later chose to step out of the spotlight and go back to school to complete his education.<\/p>\n
Speaking about his most famous film role, Garrett told The Oklahoman in 2006: \u201cI play the bully\u2019s henchman. But everybody got along on the set …<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was one scene where we were riding on a gravel road and got to slide to a stop. The guys who could ride worked on that scene.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey had a camera on the ground, and in one scene I slid and gravel hit the camera. They really liked that shot, and that\u2019s the one they used in the movie.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carol told the outlet her son had been living a \u201cgood life\u201d in the past three years and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[48339,3376,74,54174,2511,634,6179,3401,15416,156,2740,68592,259954,259953,221,111,139,69,828,24684,2737,43211,61,85763],"class_list":["post-525277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-accidental","tag-actor","tag-after","tag-blake","tag-child","tag-death","tag-died","tag-drug","tag-eat","tag-entertainment","tag-former","tag-fried","tag-garrett","tag-garretts","tag-how","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-overdose","tag-ruled","tag-star","tag-suffering","tag-to","tag-worms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525277","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=525277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}