Bernard (Bernie Mac) McCollugh, died early Saturday morning of complications due to pneumonia, the comedian had been hospitalized for about a week at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.A few years ago, Mac disclosed that he suffered from sarcoidosis, disease that causes inflammation in tissue, most often in the lungs.Mac also suffered from sarcoidosis, a rare autoimmune, inflammatory lung disease, but he had said the condition went into remission in 2005. His publicist, Danica Smith, has said the pneumonia was unrelated to the sarcoidosis.
