Former Disney star Tiffany Thorton's husband Chris Carney was killed in a car accident last night in Carney's home state of Arkansas, according to TMZ. He was 35 years old. The accident reportedly only involved one vehicle.
Carney was a former MTV reality star who on the show "twentyfourseven" and was also the lead singer for the band Prom Kings. Thorton was one of the stars of the Disney Channel show "Sonny with a Chance," which also starred Demi Lovato. The couple had been married since 2011, and just moved back to Carney's hometown of Hot Springs, Ark., where his mother is mayor of the town. Thorton and Carney have two sons together.
Carney and another passenger in the vehicle, Ezekial Blanton, were both pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, according to local station THV 11. Police said that the vehicle the two were in failed to negotiate a curve, then over-corrected, which led to the car colliding with a tree. At least one of the two men was ejected from the car.
The news of Carney's death comes just one day after Thorton suffered another tragedy. The actress found out about the death of one of her closest friends, Brittany Blanton, in an unexpected fashion. The "Sonny with a Chance" star took to her Instagram account and shared a heartbreaking message to her friend.
"One of my very best friends is gone and the place she holds in my heart will never be filled," she captioned the picture.
