Ex-child star Gary Coleman was rushed to a Los Angeles hospital Wednesday after suffering an apparent seizure.

Coleman was sitting on a bed in his hotel room around 8 a.m. when he began to seize, a friend told TMZ.com. The friend called 911 and the star was rushed to an area hospital.

Doctors asked Coleman simple questions that he was unable to answer, and the friend said he seemed “foggy.”

Doctors were running more tests and keeping him for observation, his agent said.

“He’s resting now at the hospital and doctors are monitoring his condition,” his publicist, Emily Stephens, said Wednesday night.

Coleman suffers from the kidney disease nephritis and has had two kidney transplants – one in 1973 and another in 1984.

The 41-year-old actor was in Los Angeles promoting a new movie, “Midgets vs. Mascots,” which is described on its website as a “Borat-meets-Jackass shockumentary.” It includes an unauthorized scene “where Gary’s in a bathrobe and he’s exposed for a couple of seconds,” Stephens told the Daily News.

The “Different Strokes” star has been living in the town of Santaquin, Utah about two hours south of Salt Lake City.

Coleman has been in and out of courts for a number of low-rent crimes such as disorderly conduct and assault.

He divorced his young bride, 25-year-old Shannon Price, in 2008 after a series of domestic disturbances, including a fight that landed the wife in jail for battering Coleman.

Source: NY Daily News