“Please know that Tommy Kirk loved you, his fans.”
He went on tell fans that they helped lift him up when “an industry let him down”.
“He was not bitter. His church comforted him. May God have mercy on his soul,” Paul added.
Disney also paid tribute on Twitter, writing: “We are saddened by the passing of Tommy Kirk, the beloved and iconic star of such Disney family favorites from the 1950s and 1960s as Old Yeller, The Shaggy Dog, Swiss Family Robinson, and The Misadventures of Merlin Jones.”
source: express.co.uk