(CNN) -- Former child star Gary Coleman, who rose to fame as the wisecracking youngster Arnold Jackson on the TV sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes" but grew up to grapple with a troubled adulthood, has died. He
was 42.

"We are very sad to have to report Mr. Gary Coleman has passed away," his spokesman, John Alcantar, said in a statement Friday afternoon. "He was removed from life support; soon thereafter, he passed quickly and peacefully. By Gary's bedside were his wife and other close family members." Coleman died of a brain hemorrhage at a Provo, Utah, hospital, according to a hospital spokeswoman.

The actor fell illat his Santaquin, Utah, home Wednesday evening and was rushed by ambulance to a hospital, Coleman's spokesman had said earlier Friday. He was then taken to another hospital -- Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo -- later Wednesday night.

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