Sherman Hemsley’s Cause Of Death Released

So extremely sad.

Actor Sherman Hemsley passed away a couple of weeks ago, reportedly of “natural causes”.

However, TMZ has gotten their hands on the postmortem report and it was revealed that The Jeffersons star was battling lung cancer in his final years.

From TMZ:

According to the report, Sherman had been advised to get chemo and radiation therapy before he succumbed to his illness. It’s unclear if Sherman was a smoker.

The medical examiner of El Paso County in Texas, where he resided, said Sherman had a “a cancerous mass on his lung” which caused his death at the age of 74.

May he rest always.