United Kingdom, Feb. 10 -- Child star Blake Garrett has died, aged 33.

The How to Eat Fried Worms actor - who played Plug in the 2006 children's comedy movie - passed away on Sunday (08.02.26), his mother, Carol Garrett, has told TMZ.

Carol told the publication that the family are still waiting for an autopsy result to determine her boy's official cause of death.

She told how Blake was diagnosed with shingles - a painful viral rash caused by the reactivation of the chickenpox virus - last week after rushing to hospital in Oklahoma in "intense pain".

Carol now believes Blake may have self-medicated to cope with the pain.

Blake was born in Austin, Texas, and he had been living in Tulsa, Oklahoma recently.

Carol told the publication th...