Radar Online has a new interview with David Carradine’s third wife Gail Jensen, who was married to him from 1988–1997. Jensen seems less than sober to me in the video, but that may just be how she comes across. She said she would often find Carradine tied up in the bedroom wearing only his Speedos, and that it was probably sexual but she didn’t join in and would just go about her business and bring him food when he needed it. He told her it was a form of meditation. As far as Jensen remembers, Carradine wasn’t involved in auto-erotic asphyxiation at the time she was married to him. He did like to lay in the pool with his face down and nearly drown himself, though. She has fond memories of the guy and said that she put up with his quirks because of all the great things they did together:

Gail Jensen, the third wife of late actor David Carradine, has revealed explosive secrets of the Kill Bill star’s sexual past.

In an exclusive interview with RadarOnline.com, Jensen says that Carradine was often fond of tying himself up in the bedroom of their California ranch, and even experimented with drowning himself in their pool.

Check out exclusive photos of Jensen and Carradine’s 1986 wedding.

“He had his kinky moments,” said Jensen, who believed Carradine used the sex acts as a form of meditation.

These moments, which Jensen described as “magical acts,” included a fetish for Speedo bathing suits, as well as tying himself to bedposts or in front of the living room fireplace with belts and neckties.

Carradine was even fond of falling asleep while floating in their swimming pool, submerging up to three inches underwater before barks from the family dogs would revive him and prevent drowning.

In our exclusive clip, Jensen also describes tattoos and piercings that further quenched Carradine’s erotic appetite.

Despite his proclivities, Jensen maintains that “he was the love of my life and he always will be.”

[From RadarOnline]

This guy probably paid the ultimate price for his kinks, and after seeing this interview with his ex wife I’m inclined to believe that he may have been alone despite the fact that he was tied up. His family doesn’t deserve to have all these details made public, though. We all have things that we would rather be left secret. We may think they’re not this incriminating, but we still wouldn’t want everyone talking about them.

Meanwhile there’s news from the Thai police that their investigation should be completed within a month. They also say that they’re willing to work with the FBI, they just need a formal request from the US government.

There are people who believe there are no accidents and it’s all due to negativity & karma
A few weeks ago I listened to the entire book on tape of “The Secret,” that Oprah-lauded book that tells us that life is a cosmic catalog and all we have to do is put in our order. It sounded like all of the other self help books I’ve read but with one difference: it took the “you are the master of your own destiny” stuff way too far. There were parts of it that really helped me, and there were parts that I found incredibly offensive. Author Rhoda Byrne says that there are no accidents and even mass tragedies occur because the victims are all resonating on a negative level. She says this in the book on tape like she’s imparting this great, sad wisdom but I found it incredibly cruel and haughty. She also claims that in order to get thin, you have to avoid even looking at overweight people. I wish I was making this up. (I was talking with JayBird about the book and she pointed me to this critical article on Salon that mirrored a lot of my thoughts.)

Sharon Stone called last year’s Chinese earthquake “karma”
When I heard Byrne’s claim that mass tragedies happen because the victims somehow deserve it (she didn’t say this exactly but it’s not a huge logical leap) I immediately thought of the terrible earthquakes in China last year that claimed nearly 70,000 lives. Sharon Stone evoked hatred around the world by suggesting that the earthquakes were somehow “karma” for the Chinese government’s treatment of Tibet. Stone said at the time “I’m, you know, not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans… And then all this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and I thought, is that karma? When you’re not nice that the bad things happen to you?”

Except Sharon was referring to little kids, moms, dads, sons, aunts, and people who had nothing to do with their government’s oppression. That’s like dismissing it casually if an entire city in the US was wiped out and saying it was karma for whatever our country has done.

I believe that there are accidents in life, and that of course people get sick, die and have problems without causing them indirectly or directly. It’s not all random, but it’s not all our fault, either. We have control of how we deal with life and what outlook we take. We can prevent some things, but not everything. It can make people feel better to rationalize that someone who died or got sick brought it on themselves, because that would mean they’re not susceptible to the same kind of fate. There’s a haughty kind of dismissal to that, and many of those same people who think other people have problems because they’re defective are quick to point to outside factors when faced with their own crisis.

Ashton Kutchter twittered that David Carradine’s death was “crazy karma”
So that lengthy introduction is all about the fact that Ashton Kutcher brought up the “K” word when referring to David Carradine’s death. He twittered that it was “crazy karma”:

What an awful and confusing way to go. There is some crazy karma in that.
about 4 hours ago from Tweetie

Remind me to never asphyxiate myself while masterbating [sic] in bangkok. It just confused [sic] people.
about 4 hours ago from Tweetie

[From Ashton Kutcher's twitter via Radar Online]

To be fair to Ashton, he quickly realized he said something super stupid, and tweeted that he wouldn’t delete the evidence and would have to face the consequences “sometimes you have to take licks 4 doing stupid stuff. Deleteing wouldn’t make it go away it would just hide it.”

I have mixed feelings about this. This is different than an accident because it was one guy who is presumed to have been engaging in a very risky practice that resulted in his death. If that is the case, and we do not know for sure if it is, it’s not really karma and more like statistical probability. You have someone who does something repeatedly that has a much higher risk of death than a typical habit and then they die. How is that karma and not just luck of the draw though? If you play Russian roulette and die it’s because you were playing Russian roulette, not because you were necessarily a bad person.

A director who worked with Carradine on one of his last films said that he told him that “in moments of intense sexual activities one could get a glimpse of God and the aftermath.” This suggests that he may have been involved in auto-erotic asphyxiation at the time. His ex-wife also cited his “deviant sexual behavior which was potentially deadly” during their divorce proceedings in 2003.

Was someone else in the room when Carradine died?
On the other hand, Carradine had his hands tied when he died. Many have pointed out that he may have done it to himself, and it’s supposedly common among people who are into auto-erotic asphyxiation to tie themselves up to heighten the thrill. He was also in Thailand, which is known for its prostitution, and there’s speculation that someone left the scene after he died when the stunt went too far. His family wants to get the FBI involved in the investigation, and Carradine’s lawyer has suggested that he may have been murdered by a secret martial arts society after delving too deeply into their affairs. I’m leaning toward the accidental death theory, but you can’t blame his family for wanting a thorough investigation.

There was a slew of news in the wake of David Carradine’s untimely death on Wednesday in Bangkok, Thailand. The first reports indicated the man might have committed suicide. Then, the Thai police announced more specifics of Carradine’s death – namely, that he was half-naked and had a rope tied around his privates - and made it seem like his death was accidental, the result of auto-erotic asphyxiation gone too far. Some people around the Carradine family started making some noise about foul play, and there was even a rumor that Carradine’s hands were tied behind his back – but that was not confirmed by the Thai police investigating.

Perhaps the Carradine family wanted better answers than the Thai police were willing to give them, because they began asking publicly for the FBI to get involved in the Thai investigation. According to People, the FBI accepted the Carradine family’s request, and offered their assistance to Thailand’s investigators. The FBI can’t force their way in there, they have no jurisdiction, not even when an American dies in another country. Mark Geragos, who is representing Keith Carradine (David’s brother), said that Keith “wants authorities to investigate his brother’s death, and to determine if anyone else was involved.”

Geragos tells PEOPLE that Keith and other family members are finding the grieving process even more difficult because they keep getting conflicting details regarding the condition of Carradine’s body when it was discovered.

Thai police had confirmed that a maid found Carradine, 72, nude in the closet of his luxury suite with a rope tied around his neck and one around his genitals. “It is unclear whether he committed suicide or not, or he died of suffocation or heart failure,” said police Lt. Gen. Worapong Chewprecha, the Associated Pres reported. An autopsy was ordered because of the “unusual circumstances” surrounding the death, said Dr. Nanthana Sirisap, director of Chulalongkorn Hospital’s Autopsy Center.

For those who knew Carradine well, Geragos says the possibility that Carradine’s death was a suicide seems unlikely – he had a lust for life, a busy career and even a new sports car.

“The information keeps evolving, and that’s troubling them,” Geragos tells PEOPLE. He adds that although it has been reported that surveillance footage indicates no one entered or left David Carradine’s hotel room during the time he likely died, the family would like the FBI to review that evidence as well.

“It’s hard to start the grieving process when you don’t have all the information on what happened,” says Geragos. “Family members, including Keith and Hayley (DuMond, Keith’s companion), are frustrated and in shock.”

An autopsy has already been conducted on David Carradine in Bangkok, but a second might be done in the United States by the family, sources say.

[From People]

The Carradine family made some good points about the unanswered questions, and yet the Thai police just announced over the weekend that they had no need for the FBI’s help. Police Col. Somprasong Yenthaum told the media, “We can work with the FBI [if] they request and their request is passed (to us). But if they don’t come, we can do our jobs. I am confident we are working on the right track. US embassy representatives saw every step of the investigation process in the hotel room.” Radar is billing the story as Thailand denying the FBI, but I suspect the FBI will be let in and allowed to monitor the investigation, or perhaps even lead their own.

It’s even more likely that the FBI will be let in now that there’s a major controversy brewing over the publishing of crime-scene photos. Saturday, a Thai tabloid published crime-scene photos of David Carradine, in the position in which he was found. Mark Geragos spoke for the family once again, saying “The family is outraged about the release of these photos.” I only saw a small detail of one of the photos, but allegedly, David Carradine’s body is seen hanging, with his hands tied in front of his body.

David Carradine and his wife, Annie, are shown on 8/13/06 in the header and on 4/28/05 below. Credit: PRPhotos

Yesterday, a Thai newspaper confirmed that actor David Carradine had been found dead in a Bangkok hotel. The early reports indicated that Carradine had been found hanging in his hotel room, and that it might be suicide. Now Thai police have issued a statement that Carradine’s death was most likely accidental, not suicide. The Thai police claim that the particular way the body was found, half-naked, with a rope tied around Carradine’s neck and his penis, suggests auto-erotic asphyxiation. Several people close to Carradine have spoken publicly of their disbelief that he would consciously commit suicide, and this information seems to verify that:

Thai police sources NOW say David Carradine died from auto-erotic-asphyxiation “accident”!

The acting legend, 72, was in Thailand shooting film Stretch when he was found dead in his hotel room.

“He was found hanging by a rope in the room’s closet,” Lieutenant Colonel Pirom Jantrapirom of the Lumpini police station in Bangkok stated.

“There was a rope tied around his neck and another rope tied to his genitals, and the two ropes were tied together and they hung in the closet,” Lieutenant General Worapong Siewpreecha clarified today. “Under these circumstances we cannot be sure that he committed suicide.”

Thai police now believe Carradine’s death was a result of auto-erotic asphyxiation, i.e. pleasuring himself by self-induced strangulation inducing oxygen deprivation. A full autopsy has been completed but the results have not yet been announced.

“We are investigating from where he got the rope because it does not seem it was from the hotel,” a Bagkok official divulged.

Carradine had been staying in the Park Nai Lert Hotel since June 2. Producers became concerned when Carradine failed to show up at a dinner. A hotel’s maid then discovered a “half naked” Carradine dead in closet June 4 at 10 am

Preliminary police investigation indicated a possible suicide. Cops say he was dead for less than 12 hours prior to discovery with no sign of assault.

Family, friends and fans around the world were in disbelief that the star might have killed himself.

[From The National Enquirer]

I hope this is the last we hear from this situation. David Carradine seemed like a nice man, and a hard-working actor. It would be nice if this unfortunate incident didn’t get dragged out for weeks and months as the Thai police complete their investigation. As for the whole controversy about where David got the rope – well, I would suspect that this wasn’t his first time with auto-erotic playtime, so perhaps he brought the rope with him.

David Carradine, hero to every guy in the world, is dead today at the age of 72. The first report coming out of Thailand is that Carradine committed suicide in a hotel room in Bangkok, where he was about to star shooting a movie. Carradine was the star or guest star of more than 200 films and television shows – his IMDB page is huge. His most famous works include the television shows Kung Fu and Shane, and many of the younger people will know him from Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill, Volumes 1 and 2, where Carradine was brilliantly cast as Bill. Carradine was famously a practitioner and promoter of martial arts, like Tai Chi and Qi Gong. Carradine is survived by his wife, Annie, whom he married in 2004 in Malibu.

“Kung Fu” and “Kill Bill” star David Carradine was found hung himself in a closet in a hotel room in Bangkok on Wednesday, Thai police said.

Police believed he committed suicide.

Carradine, 72, was in Bangkok to shoot a movie and stayed at a Suite Room 352 of the Park Nai Lert Hotel on Wireless Road since June 2.

The film crew were aware of his absence when they went to dine out at a restaurant on Sathorn Road on June 3.

Carradine did not show up at the dinner and the team could not reach him. They assumed that he took a rest because of his age.

It was a hotel’s maid who opened his suite on Thursday at 10 am only to find Carradine in a closet. He was described as behind half naked.

Police investigation showed that he hung himself with a rope, the kind that is used with curtains.

Police said he was dead for not less than 12 hours and found no sign of fighting and assaults.
Kung Fu Man

Aside from Quentin Tarantino’s twopart “Kill Bill” in 200304, Carradine was perhaps best known for his role as the fugitive halfChinese Shaolin monk Kwai Chang Caine in the 1970s easternwestern TV drama “Kung Fu”. He also starred in Martin Scorsese’s “Boxcar Bertha” in 1972, portrayed folksinger Woody Guthrie in “Bound for Glory” in 1976, acted in Ingmar Bergman’s “The Serpent’s Egg” in 1977 and costarred with half brothers Keith Carradine and Robert Carradine in the 1980 western “The Long Riders”.

His father was the noted actor John Carradine.

In Thai cinemas, Carradine was recently seen as a martialarts guru in the Rob Schneider comedy “Big Stan” and as a perverted elderly Chinese mobster in “Crank: High Voltage” starring Jason Statham.

[From Thailand’s The Nation]

This report from Thailand is just the initial report, and it could be wrong on some or many of the details. Carradine’s manager Chuck Binder is already saying that he believes Carradine’s death was from natural causes, and not from a suicide as reported in the Thai press. Carradine was known in Hollywood circles as an utter professional, a good, decent, brilliant, funny man who simply loved to work and loved his fans. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.