Mia Farrow’s adopted paraplegic son dies aged 27
Actor Mia Farrow’s adopted son Thaddeus has died at the age of 27 from injuries suffered in a car crash.
Thaddeus Farrow, who was a paraplegic after contracting polio as a child, was discovered in a crashed vehicle by police and was in a “gravely ill” condition. He later died in a Connecticut hospital.
“It was scary to be brought to a world of people whose language I did not understand, with different skin colours,” he said. “The fact that everyone loved me was a new experience, overwhelming at first.”
Farrow, who also had polio as a child, became a leading advocate of the campaign to rid the world of the disease.
Thaddeus was adopted in 1994 after Farrow’s acrimonious divorce from actor and director Woody Allen. The couple’s 13-year relationship ended after Allen began an intimate relationship with Soon-Yi, Farrow’s 21-year-old adopted daughter.
Thaddeus’s middle name is Will – attributed to Elliot Wilk, the judge who oversaw the custody battle that ended with Farrow having sole custody of the couple’s children.
Thaddeus is one of 10 children Farrow adopted, while the 79-year-old also has four biological children.
Two of Farrow’s other adopted children have also passed away: Tam Farrow died at age 21 from heart failure in 2002 and Lark Previn died at age 35 of unknown causes in 2008.
Farrow, who was also married briefly to singer Frank Sinatra in the 1960s, is a former model who is best known for her role as Rosemary in Roman Polanski’s 1968 classic Rosemary’s Baby.
