Christopher Lawford

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Christopher Kennedy Lawford (March 29, 1955 – September 4, 2018) was an American writer, actor, and activist.

He was a member of the Kennedy family, as well as actor Peter Lawford and Patricia "Pat" Kennedy Lawford, who was the niece of President John F. Kennedy.

He graduated from Tufts University in 1977 and received a law degree from Boston College in 1983.

He earned a master's degree in Clinical Psychology from Harvard University and lectured on opioid use. After struggling with heroin for 17 years, he became an actor, appearing in dozens of films and television shows for more than 20 years.

He wrote several books about heroin use and recovery based on his own experience.

He has travelled around the United States for 20 years and worked with organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations (UN), as well as the US federal government.

Early life and education

Lawford was born on March 29, 1955, at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California. He was named after Saint Christopher because his mother liked the name. p. 1 He was the eldest child and only son of actor and "Rat Pack" member Peter Lawford (1923–1984) and Patricia "Pat" Kennedy Lawford (1924–2006), who was President John F. Kennedy's niece. Sydney Lawford McKelvy (born 1956), Victoria Pender (born 1958), and Robin Lawford (born 1961) were his three younger sisters. Because he didn't get as much attention as his cousins, Lawford referred to himself as a "second-string Kennedy." Patricia Lawford and her son and daughter migrated from California to New York City in 1966 after their parents divorced; her son and daughters moved from California.

Lawford attended St. Martin of Tours Elementary School in Los Angeles, where, at the age of 8, he was told of his uncle John F. Kennedy's assassination. He and his mother moved to New York City and attended the Middlesex School, a preparative school in Concord, Massachusetts, for 13 years. He graduated from Tufts University in 1977 and received a J.D. In 1983, Boston College Law School obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree. He earned a master's degree in Clinical Psychology from Harvard University and lectured on opioid use at Harvard, Columbia University, and other colleges.

When Lawford was 14, he was introduced to LSD by his peers at school in 1969, the year after his uncle Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. p. 111 For the next 17 years, he was addicted to alcohol, cocaine, ups, downers, and "any other drugs he could buy" for the next 17 years. During that time, he was "in and out of hospitals and arrested three times, including in 1980 for impersonating a doctor in Aspen, Colorado, in order to purchase prescription drugs. When Lawford completed his probation, the charges were dismissed later. Lawford was diagnosed with hepatitis C in 2000, which he contracted as a result of his drug use in the past.

Lawford attended Fordham Law School for a short time, but he was forced to leave after a few months due to his heroin use. In April 1984, the same year his father Peter Lawford died at the age of 61, after years of alcohol and heroin use, Lawford's cousin and best friend David Kennedy, and the third oldest son of Robert Kennedy, who also dealt with substance use issues, died of a heroin overdose at the age of 28. David's death prompted him to seek medical assistance for his problems. Lawford went back to prison and received medical attention for his heroin use in 1986, and he remained clean and sober until his death in 2018.

Personal life

Lawford was married and divorced three times. David Christopher Lawford, a boy named after his cousin David Kennedy, was named after his cousin David Kennedy): pp. 319–320 Savannah Rose Lawford and Matthew Peter Valentine Lawford, joined by Jeannie Olsson, a New York Magazine ad sales assistant, in a 319-320 arrangement. In 2000, the couple divorced. Lana Antonova, a Russian actress, married him in 2005; they divorced in 2009. In Hawaii, Lawford married yoga instructor Mercedes Miller in 2014. At the time of his death in 2018, he had been in a relationship with his girlfriend Kyla Resch since August 2017.

Lawford died of a heart attack in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he was living with his family and opening a rehabilitation center on September 4, 2018. He died after suffering a medical emergency at a yoga studio. Patrick Kennedy told the Associated Press that Lawford had been doing "hot yoga," which he did regularly, but the strain of it mustn't have been too much for him at that point." Maria Shriver, Patrick Kennedy, and Kerry Kennedy, Lawford's cousins, all took to Twitter after his death, thanking Lawford's service in the recovery sector.

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Career

After finding that a law career would not suit him, Lawford decided to become, like his father, an actor in the mid-1980s. He worked in Boston for two years, and then he and his wife moved to Southern California in 1988 so that he could pursue an acting career. For more than 20 years, he worked in film and television. His acting work includes roles on the sitcom Frasier and the film The O.C. . He appeared on Several television shows from 1992 to 1995, but he was best known for his appearance on All My Children as Philip "Charlie" Brent, Jr.

Lawford appeared in films including The Russia House, a 1990 spy drama starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Sean Connery, and The Doors, a 1991 rock-music film directed by Oliver Stone, among other things. In the 2000 film Thirteen Days, a drama about the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, Lawford played a Navy officer. Lawford appeared in Kiss Me Guido as the principal character's gay lover. He was also involved in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, co-starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, who supervised Lawford in a 1990 episode of HBO's Anthology series Tales from the Crypt ("The Switch") and was married to Lawford's cousin Maria Shriver at the time. Lawford appeared in Anthony Hopkins' motorcycle racing film The World's Fastest Indian in 2005.

Several books "that outlined his attempts to recover from heroin use" were written by Lawford. He published Symptoms of Withdrawal, a memoir in which he recalled decades of "better living by chemistry." He wrote Moments of Clarity, a collection of first-person recollections by notable addicts, including Ed Begley, Jr., Alec Baldwin, Buzz Aldrin, Richard Dreyfuss, Martin Sheen, Judy Collins, and federal prisoner Dejuan Vertt. The book was dedicated to Lawford's cousin David Kennedy, and Patrick J. Kennedy, another cousin, wrote the introduction. Even though writing Moments of Clarity was "difficult" and he didn't want to do it, Lawford told interviewer Connie Martinson that the book was "meant to happen."

In 2013, Lawford published Recover to Live: Kick Any Addiction, Kick Any Habit, Manage Any Addiction, in which he interviewed 100 addiction specialists and detailed medications for alcohol and opioid use, gambling, sex and porn, eating disorders, and hoarding. What Addicts Know: 10 Lessons From Recovery To Benefit Everyone; Dr. Drew Pinsky wrote the foreword. When Your Partner Has an Addiction, a how-to-guide for people with addictive relationships that requires regular contact, was Lawford's final book on addiction and recovery, which he co-authored with psychotherapist Beverly Engel in 2016.

In addition, Lawford wrote a book about dealing with hepatitis C, Healing Hepatitis C, which he co-wrote with Diana Sylvestre in 2009.

Lawford toured around the United States to talk about his drug use for 20 years. He served with the World Health Organization (WHO), the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, and the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, as well as Caron Treatment Centers, an agency that managed health services. Lawford founded and was CEO of the Global Recovery Initiative in 2001, a not-for-profit group that "seeks to eliminate barriers and improve people's recovery."

Lawford has also worked with the United Nations (UN). In March 2010, he travelled to Ukraine on behalf of the United Nations to engage in a dialogue with health officials and activists on "problems related to hepatitis C (Hep C) prevention in Ukraine" and to raise concern. In 2011, was named a Goodwill Ambassador on Drug Dependence Treatment and Care, was involved in a movement against opium use in Afghanistan, and served on the United Nations Drug and Crime's Office on Drug Dependence Treatment and Care. "Chris was one of those people who had a way of enhancing people's perceptions and judgments of those who suffer from the disease of addiction," his uncle, former Rhode Island congressman Patrick J. Kennedy, said of Lawford: "Chris was one of those people who had a way of boosting people's hopes and judgments of those suffering from this drug use."

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