Tommy Chong Dead, Net worth, Parents, Wife, Children

Publish date: 2024-05-12

Tommy Chong is a Canadian-American comedian, musician, actor, writer and cannabis rights activist. There has never been a celebrity who has advocated for the free legal use of marijuana like he has. He even became more famous for his marijuana-themed Cheech and Chong albums and movies. He was totally committed to what he believed to be the right of people to possess and use marijuana.

Let us know more about Tommy Chong.

Tommy Chong’s Parents

Tommy Chong’s real name is Thomas B. Kin Chong. He was born on May 24, 1938 at the University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada to Lorna Jean his mother and Stanley Chong his father. Her mum was a Scottish-iris waitress while her dad was a Chinese truck driver.

Chong and his parents lived in Calgary where they settled in a conservative neighborhood in a house his father bought for $500 at the time. According to him, his father was a wounded World War II veteran and there was a veterans hospital in Calgary. Thus, this explained why the family chose to move there. Tommy Chong described the neighborhood as “Dog Patch”.

He was not very well educated however, but he attended school for a while before leaving high school when he was only 16 years old. Being inactive and not really having anything serious to do, he took up music playing the guitar to earn money. And yes, money he made! According to him, he was around 16 when he discovered that music could appeal to you, even if you were a skinny, long-haired, geek-looking guy like him.

He continued down this path and soon joined a Calgary soul band called The Shades in 1960. In 1963, along with Bobby Taylor, one of his band members, they opened a Vancouver nightclub named Blue Balls. Things went pretty well for them on this venture as not only did their music get promoted here, but it also put more money in their pockets. At some point, they brought in other musicians, as the band had done quite well and gained popularity by then. However, in 1965 the band broke up.

Chong is also an established actor who has performed on numerous Cheech & Chong comedy albums. He shared the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album with Cheech Marin in 1973. Despite this success, they broke up in 1985 due to so-called creative differences. This took its toll on Tommy Chong as he failed to act consistently, which was compounded by his brief prison sentence. His acting career resumed a few years later with several upcoming roles. In 2017, he guest-starred on an episode of the Trailer Park Boys spin-off Out of the Park.

Wife and children of Tommy Chong

Tommy Chong has been married twice with 6 children and a registered divorce. In 1960, he married Maxine Sneed, a Canadian of black and Cherokee descent. They were parents to 2 daughters, Rae Dawn, born in 1961 and Robbi Chong in 1965. However, Chong and Sneed divorced in 1970.

Five years later, love found him and ShelbyFiddis together in 1975. They got married in Los Angeles and have 3 children together. A son named Paris who was born in 1974, another son named Gilbran born in 1981 and a daughter named Precious. They adopted Marcus Wyatt in 1978.

Three of his children, Rae Dawn, Robbi, Marcus and Precious Chong are each pursuing their acting careers which they are very good at.

Tommy Chong fortune

Tommy’s net worth is estimated at $8 million. His music career has been successful and despite the health issues, he looks like one who won’t take the time to return to active music once he is fully strong.

Is Tommy Chong dead?

In the 1990s, rumors swirled that Chong had died of cancer. However, there was no authoritative source to add credibility to the claim or rather a rumour. Over time, it died out.

In June 2012 precisely on the 9th, Tommy Chonga publicly announced that he was battling prostate cancer which he described as a slow stage that he had had for a long time. He said that during the management of this disease he had been drug free for 3 years, but unfortunately the prostrate came back.

In 2015, good news came from him announcing through his Twitter account that the hemp oil treatment he had used to treat his cancer was effective. This victory didn’t last too long as he soon came down with colorectal cancer and was using cannabis like crazy to support the treatment. We think he’s still dealing with it.

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