Power Rangers star Jason David Frank's wife confirms he killed himself - Daily Mail

Power Rangers prima Jason David Frank's origin of decease was suicide, his woman has confirmed.

David Frank was confirmed dormant connected November 20 during a play distant with his woman astatine the property of 49, though nary origin of dormant was provided astatine the time.

The histrion was champion known for playing Green Power Ranger Tommy Oliver successful the Power Rangers franchise, with his last movie — Legend of the White Dragon — owed for merchandise adjacent year. 

His wife Tammie Frank spoke to PEOPLE on behalf of their family, who said they had a heartfelt and affectional speech and were successful the process of reuniting aft a divided erstwhile helium killed himself during the trip.

'While Jason was a well-known sanction to some, we lived a precise mean beingness with ups and downs, conscionable similar anyone else. It has shocked and saddened maine beyond content to spot that the media has turned my family's calamity into a gangly tale,' Tammie said.

'Since Jason's death, I person been harassed online and tin nary longer basal to ticker my husband's bully sanction slandered,' she added. 'I loved my husband, and we were trying to enactment done our problems. His decease comes arsenic overmuch a daze to maine arsenic anyone else.

'The information is, I had nary thought that Jason was reasoning of ending things,' she said. 'Yes, helium had struggled with intelligence wellness issues and slump before, but I could ne'er foretell what would hap that night.'

Tammie recalls what happened connected the evening of November 19, the nighttime her hubby died.

She had filed for divorcement earlier successful the twelvemonth aft accusing the histrion of infidelity, having been joined to Jason since 2003. 

But astatine the clip of his passing, they had called disconnected their separation and were successful the process of reuniting.

The twelvemonth before, Tammie's girl Shayla, who she said Jason helped rise arsenic his own, passed distant unexpectedly.

Jason had recovered her erstwhile it happened, destroying the household emotionally.

'Between losing her and helping rise her babe son, Jason and I started having marital issues,' she said. 'For anyone who has known the symptom of losing a child, I cognize you recognize however specified a nonaccomplishment changes things successful your marriage.'

Tammie said the 2 of them decided to abstracted astatine that time, not knowing what other to do.

But six weeks ago, they decided to rekindle their romance aft a adjacent household person stepped successful to effort and reunite them.

Jason planned a two-night getaway arsenic portion of their program to reconnect, attending a state dancing event.

They stayed successful 2 abstracted edifice rooms due to the fact that of Jason's snoring, she added. 

'We danced and stayed retired astatine the lawsuit until the barroom closed. When we got backmost to the hotel, Jason and I were having a heartfelt and affectional speech successful his room,' she recalls.

'To assistance Jason unbend and sober up earlier turning down to sleep, I went downstairs to get america snacks from the lobby. I must've been gone nary much than 10 minutes. I went backmost upstairs and began knocking connected the doorway to nary answer. I knocked repeatedly and kept calling for his sanction to unfastened the door.'

'I don't cognize if the edifice unit oregon a impermanent called the police, but aft I was taken downstairs by the police, they were capable to unfastened the doorway and recovered that Jason took his life,' she continues.

Jason is survived by his 4 children, sons Hunter and Jacob, arsenic good arsenic his daughters, Skye and Jenna. 

Concluding her statement, Tammie asked radical to permission her household to grieve successful peace.

Tributes person poured successful from fans and friends sharing their memories of the movie star.

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