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"Mom" star Allison Janney is hiding a secret heartbreak – her beloved younger brother Henry “Hal” Janney killed himself.
Hal, 49, a programmer, struggled with drug addiction and depression before he took his own life in 2011.
“It hit Allison very hard,” said a source.
“She loved Hal very much, and they were very close growing up in Dayton, Ohio. But she knew that he could never get clean and he was miserable.”
Allison, 55, has called her brother’s suicide “the most traumatic event of my life.
“And the hardest thing is to be able to forgive.”