‘An Officer and a Gentleman’ and ‘Roots’ star Louis Gossett Jr. dead at 87
2023 remake of “The Color Purple.”Gossett struggled with alcohol and cocaine addiction for years after his Oscar win. He went to rehab, where he was diagnosed with toxic mold syndrome, which he attributed to his house in Malibu.In 2010, Gossett announced he had prostate cancer, which he said was caught in the early stages.