Actress Elizabeth Pena has died

[louiswinthorpe111]

Wow, this is really random. Didn't expect it at all cuz she's so young.

[BITTER]

This is so fucked up. She was young. And talented. I lived to see her on Ressurrection Blvd. Crazy about her and I will miss her on TV and in the movies.

[rollo]

I loved La Bamba. This is a damn shame.

[mtlebay]

I just recently watched La Bamba and I thought she was fantastic in her role.

Rest in peace young lady.

[firebrat1229]

Very sad. I thought she was hilarious as the maid who was boinking Richard Dreyfuss in Down and Out in Beverly Hills.

RIP, ma'am. Way too soon.

[gas_chick]

RIP she was way too young.

[JWL]

This is so sad. Such a great actress and that voice! She was perfect as the evil hero's seductress girlfriend, Mirage, in The Incredibles

[sprynkles]

Sad update



Elizabeth Pena -- who became famous playing Ritchie Valens' brother's baby mama in "La Bamba" -- died from complications from alcohol abuse.

According to the death certificate -- obtained by TMZ -- Pena suffered from cirrhosis of the liver "due to alcohol." She had the disease for months, but it became acute shortly before her death.

The death certificate says the 55-year-old had acute gastrointestinal bleeding hours before her death, which caused her heart to stop.

Pena died October 14th at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in L.A.

Read more: http://www.tmz.com#ixzz3GxbrZ9kU

[deenz]

Ugh, that's horrible.

[electrocuted_sheep]

Wow, i had no idea.

[ConstanceSpry]

That is beyond sad! I was wondering why she looked so bloated in recent photos. I thought maybe she was on steroids or other meds for a serious medical condition.

[Bluebonnet]

This is so sad.

I had a friend whose mom died of the same thing. Literally drank herself to death in her 40's.

[ShimmeringGlow]

A friend of the family died last year of cirrhosis. He had aged to the point that he was unrecognizable lying in his casket. He drank from the minute he got up to the minute that he went to bed. His 92 year old father looked younger than he did at the end.

[BITTER]

This is so sad.

I had a friend whose mom died of the same thing. Literally drank herself to death in her 40's.

This is what killed my aunt back in 05. Bits of her stomach broke off and got in her bloodstream, and she went septic and died. Drank vodka like it was water. She took a dozen pills a day because her pancreas was shot. One of the reasons I stopped drinking. Didn't want to end up like her.

[firebrat1229]

My uncle did the same thing. He was 38 and his stomach was swollen to the point that he looked 9 months pregnant. He also looked about 20 years older than my dad and his other brother (all around the same age) when he finally died. It was awful.