The officials determined what killed the actor Val Kilmer.
According to the death certificate, the actor “Top Gun” died of pneumonia with underlying causes listed by acute hypoxemic respiratory failure, chronic respiratory failure and epidermoid carcinoma of the base of the language.
He also suffered from malnutrition and a tracheocutaneous fistula.
Kilmer died on April 1 and was cremated on April 7.
His daughter, Mercedes, said he had died of pneumonia.
He had received a diagnosis of throat cancer in 2015 and had lost most of his voice. The AI was used to recreate its voice for its latest role in “Top Gun: Maverick”.
It has also been bedridden in recent months.
In his 2020 memories, “I am your Huckleberry,” he wrote on his health, saying: “Reports have emerged that I was in denial. Well, denial is a funny thing. I do not deny that I had cancer but I just said that I did not do it anymore. ”
“And to be honest,” he added, “it was very difficult to kiss my original diagnosis. It was surreal. I did not believe that I was decomposed, and I was not ready to die.”
He said that he had ignored the symptoms of throat cancer and that he had to cancel a show in 2014 because he lost his voice. He had noticed a bump in his throat and then realized that he had trouble swallowing. He waited a year to obtain medical treatment.
“One night, I suddenly woken up vomiting blood that covered the bed like a scene from The godfather‚” Wrote Kilmer. He called 911 after praying.
This incident led to the fortuitous diagnosis and he finally had to have tracheotomy, chemotherapy and radiation.
He wrote in 2020 that he had been declared without cancer four years earlier.
Val Kilmer: Val Kilmer played the lieutenant of Lieutenant Tom “Iceman” Kazansky in “Top Gun”. (CBS Archive Photo / CBS via Getty Images)
Val Kilmer: The American actors Cher and Val Kilmer arrived at the 56th Academy Awards in 1984. (William Nation / Sygma via Getty Images)
Val Kilmer: Val Kilmer completes a class assignment in a scene from the 1985 film “Real Genius”. (Archive Photos / Getty Images)
Val Kilmer: From left to right, Mark Kamiyama, Michelle Meyrink, Val Kilmer, Gabe Jarret and Jonathan Gries (seated) on the set of the film “Real Genius” in 1985. (Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images)
Val Kilmer: Michelle Pfeiffer played Annie, one of the four secondary friends whose life has always changed when her boyfriend Eric (Val Kilmer) translates into devastating results, in the 1985 show, “One Toof.”. (ABC Photo Archives / Disney General Entertainment Con)
Val Kilmer: Val Kilmer and Tom Cruise played in “Top Gun”. (Sunset Boulevard / Corbis via Getty Images)
Val Kilmer: Val Kilmer and Joanne Whalley, in the film “Kill Me Again” on February 12, 1989. (Paul Harris / Getty Images)
Val Kilmer: Val Kilmer in the 1989 “Kill Me Again” film. (Paul Harris / Getty Images)
Val Kilmer: Val Kilmer ads the film “Batman Forever”. (Eric Robert / Sygma via Getty Images)
Val Kilmer: Val Kilmer in a 1996 film scene “The Island of Dr. Moreau”. (New Cinema / Getty Images line)
Val Kilmer: Val Kilmer comforts Elisabeth Shue in a scene from the 1997 film “The Saint”. (Archive Photos / Getty Images)
Val Kilmer: The actor Val Kilmer comes out with a horse after having introduced a special segment in honor of singing the Cow-Boys Roy Rogers and Gene others during the 71st Oscars in 1999. (Timothy A. Clary / AFP via Getty Images)
Val Kilmer: Val Kilmer and Mira Sorvino kiss in a scene from the 1999 film “At first glance”. (MGM Studios / Getty Images)
Val Kilmer: Val Kilmer, famous for his performance as Batman and Jim Morrison, proudly shows the tile with his handshakes and his signature in 2019. (Portfolio de Mondadori / Mondadori / Archivio Mar portfolio)
Val Kilmer: Val Kilmer, on the left, and Al Pacino attend the live reading of Simply Shakespeare from “The Mercant of Venice” at the Walt Disney Concert Hall on October 28, 2019, in Los Angeles. (Amanda Edwards / Getty Images)
Val Kilmer: The versatile actor, who had played roles in “Top Gun”, “Batman Forever” and “Tombstone”, died on April 1. He was 65 years old. (C Flanigan / Wireimage)
Val Kilmer: Al Kilmer attends Thespiians Go Hollywood 2019 annual Gala in Avalon Hollywood on November 18, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Michael Tullberg / Getty Images)
Val Kilmer: Julie Cohen, the actors Mercedes Kilmer and Val Kilmer and Brad Koepenick attend the annual gala of Thespans Go Hollywood 2019 in Avalon Hollywood. (Michael Tullberg / Getty Images)
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