27 August 2025
Angus Cloud’s family felt powerless to stop his death.
Euphoria star Angus Cloud tragically died in 2023
The Euphoria actor tragically died aged 25 in 2023 after an accidental overdose and his uncle Kevin Cloud has recalled how his nephew was increasingly gripped by addiction in the weeks leading up to his passing.
Speaking in the new documentary Fame and Fentanyl, Kevin said: “Those last few weeks he probably OD’d at least three or four times. He was gonna keep abusing opioids until he died.”
Cloud’s uncle has recalled how the actor’s mother struggled to sleep at night because she had to keep checking that he was still alive but Kevin feels that she couldn’t stop the sadly inevitable ending.
He said: “His mom Lisa was unable to sleep because she had to go keep checking on him to see if he was still alive.
“I said to Lisa, ‘If it hadn’t been the first of the month it would have been the sixth of the month, or the tenth of the month. That’s just the way he was headed.'”
Angus passed away at his family home in Oakland, California on July 31, 2023 and Kevin has vivid memories of the horrendous day – which started with the “saddest text I ever got in my life” from Lisa.
He said: “I think I was the first person there after the first 911 responders had arrived. The paramedics arrived and went, ‘Uh, no. This isn’t for us, this is for the coroners’ wagon.’
“The coroners came in, one of the boys helped them zip him into the bag and carry him out of his bedroom and down to the wagon. I parked myself on the front porch and basically sat there for three days.”
Angus’ drug problems were exacerbated by the chronic pain from an injury he suffered to his head as a child, as well as the death of his father from cancer in May 2023, and Kevin says his nephew had a “fair amount of motive” to turn to painkillers.
He explained: “He was in a lot of pain, and he had a job to do as an actor. Between the headaches and the ankle pain, it was a fair amount of motive to take painkillers. So, opioids.
“After his father died, by that time, he had come routinely to be kind of a mess.”
Kevin admits that the pain of Angus’ death is still keenly felt more than two years on.
He said: “The hole in our lives left by him is just painful. He was in my heart and now he’s gone.”
