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Good Times actor John Amos has slammed his daughter’s bizarre attempt to claim he was ‘fighting for his life’ after being targeted by a mystery elder abuser.
Amos, 83, told TMZ a fundraiser allegedly created by his daughter Shannon was based on a lie, and he was never the victim of any abuse.
The fundraiser, which set a target of $500,000, claimed Amos fell victim to a ‘caregiver’ who stole from the iconic actor and stripped his home of ‘anything valuable’.
But Amos quickly shot down the allegations and said he has no idea why his daughter launched the fundraiser, according to the outlet.
John Amos (right) was targeted by an elder abuser after he was hospitalized in Memphis last month, according to his daughter Shannon (left)
His daughter Shannon Amos said his ordeal started last month, when she received a distressing phone call from her father telling her he was in a hospital in Memphis.
Over the next few weeks, Amos’ heartbroken family came to realize he had ‘fallen victim to elder abuse and financial exploitation’, according to a fundraiser Shannon launched to pay for her father’s care and legal bills.
Shannon said she was out of the country at the time her father called her from a Tennessee hospital bed, but she said she ‘managed a brief FaceTime conversation before his pain became too unbearable.’
After enlisting a family friend to travel to Memphis to be with her father, she said what they found ‘shattered our world’ – her father had been ‘fighting for his life in the ICU’.
She said over the next several weeks her family unraveled the ‘horrifying truth’ that her father had been victimized in a cruel elder abuse campaign.
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It is unclear who the alleged abuser is, and Shannon gave no further details other than describing them as a ‘caregiver’.
While details of the alleged abuse are also yet to be confirmed, she noted that the 83-year-old’s home had been ‘violated, stripped of anything valuable’.
Shannon added that the family is working with the Colorado Bureau of Investigations and local police to ‘seek justice’.
‘The cruelty inflicted upon my dad leaves me questioning what kind of human could commit such acts,’ Shannon added.
‘Yet, we hold onto hope that justice will prevail.
‘We are deeply saddened by John’s victimization through elder abuse, neglect, and fiduciary abuse, believed to be perpetrated by a trusted caregiver.
‘This betrayal has devastated us, and we are resolute in continuing a thorough investigation.’
Amos shot to household-name status in the 1970s with his starring role as the patriarch James in Good Times.
He went on to feature in over 200 TV shows and films, including The West Wing, Coming to America and Me Time.
Source: | This article originally belongs to Dailymail.co.uk
