![]() According Smith, the pneumonia that struck down the star was unrelated to the disease, which had been said to be in remission. Mac suffered from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory disease that can affect any body organ, per the Mayo Clinic's Website, but that Mac revealed in 2005 had taken root in his lungs. Yesterday, Mac's publicist, Danica Smith, responding to rumor that the star had fallen critically ill, said Mac was in stable condition, and was "responding well to treatment." The actor-comedian, who told jokes on train platforms, and plugged away for decades before coming into the spotlight on his own Fox sitcom, the Ocean's Eleven movies, and more, died today, one week it was learned he'd been hospitalized with pneumonia.Ī spokesman for the Cook County Medical Examiner's office confirmed to E! News that Mac had been a patient at Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital for "over a week," and that he died this morning of "natural causes." Bernie Mac wanted to be like Bill Cosby: He wanted to make his mother laugh.
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