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Father's Emotional Plea to Andrew Koenig: 'Are You Okay?'
Originally posted 02/24/2010 03:30PM
Fighting tears, Walter Koenig looked into the news cameras on Wednesday desperately hoping his missing son was watching.
"I just want to know you're okay," he said in the emotional appeal to Andrew Koenig, the Growing Pains star who disappeared earlier this month. "If it means you just want to stay here, that's okay. You don't have to come back. Just let us know that's your intention."
Walter Koenig, also an actor – he played Mr. Chekov on the original Star Trek TV show and movies – was joined by wife Judith at the televised press conference at the Vancouver Police Department.
Parents Ask Public to Help Find Andrew Koenig
Originally posted 02/24/2010 08:10AM
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In his first network TV interview since his son Andrew Koenig's Feb. 14 disappearance, Walter Koenig appeared on Wednesday's Today show with an appeal to viewers for help in finding the former Growing Pains actor.
"It's very, very tough," said the anguished father, 73, himself best known for playing Pavel Chekov on Star Trek. Describing Andrew's state of mind at the time he vanished, Walter Koenig said, "He was very depressed … about his life."
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