Kevin DiCiccio, the person who owned Buddy – star of the hit “Air Bud” movies – and helped create the movie collection, is in serious trouble… he is homeless and about to depart the shelter the place he stays to be put down.
TMZ spoke with DiCiccio on Saturday … who tells us he is staying at a shelter in San Diego, however his 90-day restrict is about to run out — and he has no thought the place he’ll go. It is the top of the road… and he is terrified.
Kevin, who discovered future canine actor Buddy close to his cabin in Yosemite and took him in on the time, explains that his subsequent step seems to be life on the streets… sophisticated by the main well being downside he is coping with.
As Kevin tells it…regardless of serving to to create “Air Bud” – he’s credited because the character’s creator in 11 of the movies – he by no means obtained a lot monetary compensation for the vastly fashionable movies among the many Disney flag.
KD critically explains that he went bankrupt and entered a interval of despair. He provides that he used medical marijuana for a time, which he says brought on him to develop continual obstructive pulmonary illness (COPD). Kevin denies ever utilizing different medicine.
In line with the Mayo Clinic, COPD is a persistent lung illness brought on by injury to the lungs. Swelling and irritation of the lungs limit airflow, making it troublesome to breathe.
After years of remedy, Kevin says he is been in a position to handle his despair and even landed a job as a property supervisor in 2020… though the COVID-19 pandemic has left him unemployed.
Kevin says his COPD forces him to make use of oxygen… and the one motive the shelter hasn’t requested him to depart but is as a result of he wants energy for his oxygen concentrator. However time is operating out.
However he cannot keep for much longer… and it is unclear how KD will be capable to use the concentrator with out electrical energy. Kevin’s mates have organized a GoFundMe for him… which has raised about $3,000 of the $200,000 aim as of this writing.
Kevin says he did not wish to ask for assist like this… however he is operating out of choices – and he is swallowing his satisfaction in hopes that ‘Air Bud’ superfans will lend a serving to hand to somebody who has given all of them these introduced pleasure years in the past.
