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Re: Mia Farrow's Son Thaddeus Has Died at 27
Mia Farrow's adopted son Thaddeus dies aged 27 after being 'gravely injured' in a car accident
Mia Farrow's adopted son, Thaddeus Wilk Farrow, has died from his injuries after a car accident in Connecticut.
The 27-year-old died after the incident in Roxbury on Wednesday, theHartford Courant reported.
Connecticut state troopers responded to the scene around 12.45pm and found Thaddeus 'gravely injured in his car along Route 67'.
He was taken to Danbury Hospital nearby and was pronounced dead at 2.30pm.
Police did not release the cause and manner of his death, but said that there was 'no criminal aspect'.
Mia adopted Thaddeus, who suffered from polio, from an orphanage in Calcutta, India, in 1994 at age 12.
The longtime activist and actress adopted him after she ended her 13-year relationship with director-actor Woody Allen.
His middle name, Wilk, is honor of Elliot Wilk who is the judge that oversaw her bitter custody battle with Allen that ended with her becoming the sole caretaker of the couple's children.
He is one of 10 children that she has adopted over the years, including Soon-Yi Previn, who is now married to Allen.
In addition to adopting 10 children, the 79-year-old 'Rosemary's Baby' star has four biological children.
Tragically, Thaddeus is the third adopted child of Mia's to pas away. Tam Farrow died from heart failure in 2000 and Lark Previn died in 2008.
As a child, Thaddeus was diagnosed with polio and was paraplegic as a result of the disease.
After she adopted him, Mia, who suffered from polio herself, spearheaded a campaign to rid the world of polio.
According to the New York Post, she lost the ability to walk and breathe on her own at age nine and spent three weeks in a hospital's isolation unit due to the disease.
'I perhaps am more motivated than most people because I had polio myself and it was a real struggle to come through it, and what I saw will never leave me – in the hospitals and in the public wards for contagious diseases,' she told the Post in 2000, as his condition had improved vastly not long after.
'Perhaps even more so because I have a son who is only 12 years old and who is paralyzed from the waist down because of polio.
'This is a terrible disease, and he has a lot of difficulty just getting through the day. I would love to see the end of polio, where no more children have this.'
In a Vanity Fair profile from 2013, Thaddeus, who walked with crutches or used a wheelchair at times, said he was studying to become a police officer and working as a car mechanic.
'It was scary to be brought to a world of people whose language I did not understand, with different skin colors,' he told the magazine of his adoption.
'The fact that everyone loved me was a new experience, overwhelming at first.'
Thaddeus also spoke about thanking his mother after he had a spiritual awakening the Christmas prior.
'I came back at Christmastime (sic) to tell Mia, 'I know I never really said thank you, Mom.' I just let out emotions I would never let myself express. Finally I was able to.'
Mia, who has a home in Bridgewater, has not released a statement about his death as of Wednesday evening.
She has been spending her time with her newest granddaughter, Evangeline, after her daughter Dylan gave birth earlier this month.
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