Tommy 'Tiny' Lister died from heart disease, his autopsy confirmed
The 'Friday' actor passed away in December aged 62 and although tests showed he had coronavirus at the time of his death, a post-mortem examination determined his cause of death to be hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease
3 May 2021
According to TMZ, the autopsy noted a nasal swap came back positive for COVID-19 and Tommy was found to have fluid in his chest when he died, as well as an enlarged heart with high blood pressure, poor circulation in his legs and coronary artery disease.
The character actor's manager, Cindy Cowan, previously revealed her client - who also had Type 2 diabetes - had displayed coronavirus-like symptoms in the days before his death but didn't get tests because he'd had the virus four months earlier.