Hunter Tylo speaks out about son's death

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At his 15th birthday, he began to have some symptoms where he would just walk and be blinking and staring off into space, and slowly these turned into some seizures, where literally he would be tremoring and fall into the ground. It was called complex partial seizures. And I didn't find out until much later what it was exactly. But he had been seeing a therapist, who originally was seeing my daughter Katya for some of her medical issues and the trauma that she had been through [with her eye cancer].

And then this therapist told my son that he didn't really have seizures, per se. That this was some kind of stress disorder. That if she treated him weekly and talked to him, that this would stop these seizures. And they didn't stop. And this went on for 18 months.

We were living [in Nevada] and I would commute to come into the "The Bold and the Beautiful" or I would do films.  Actually, this last five months, he was with me here in L.A., because I was seeking proper medical treatment.  He had driven out to see his girlfriend, and then he went to our home in Nevada, and he was trying to call his girlfriend that morning. They were going to meet up for breakfast.

So about I guess 6:15, 6:30 pm, he had called her and then she was going to call him back. And he never picked up again. He was standing out by the pool to get reception, and then a seizure occurred and he fell into the water. There wasn't -- no toxicology. I mean, he did not do anything. He was actually trying to work on taking his medications and get better.

My oldest son, Chris, his older brother, called and told me that...It's like what you never want to hear. He said, 'Mom, are you sitting down?' And, you know, you don't want to hear that. I said, 'Oh quiet, what do you want?' He said, 'Mom, I'm not kidding, are you sitting down?'

And there's just this hot rush of blood that just envelopes your whole face and your chest and you just begin to know that there's something terribly wrong.

And he said, 'It's about Mike.' And I don't know if it was just my body language or just what was happening, and even though I was trying to cover because my two daughters were sitting at the table where this phone call came, my daughter, who is 11 years old now, she immediately said, 'Is Mike dead?' I looked at her and I walked further away from the table.

The next thing my son said is, 'I found Mike in the pool. He's dead.' And it was the worst thing I have ever heard in my life. I thought the worst thing in life was having a sick child and then having a child that might be blind. But there's really nothing more painful than losing a child.   

Source: Larry King Live

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