

In days before her death, Murphy was showing “flu-like symptoms,” including vomiting and fatigue. Murphy had developed “Flu Like Symptoms” before her death Reportedly, she struggled with eating disorders and anemia.ĭoctors theorized that Brittany was taking a cocktail of drugs at the time of her illness - including anti-depression, anti-anxiety, anti-seizure, and painkiller medications which caused her body to a total shut down. Painkillers Only Increased the TroubleĪccording to a report that surfaced after Brittany’s death, she was addicted to prescription meds and she refused to go to the hospital for various ailments and began self-medicating. Brittany was sick and instead of getting her treatment, Simon and her mother didn’t take her to the doctor and used an abundance of over-the-counter meds.

The problem is Simon would doctor shop and got numerous medications with numerous names and had a problem with prescription meds. Coroner Chief Ed Winter agrees that deaths were “preventable.” Winter at that point detailed how: The meds were recommended to Murphy and Monjack, just as to counterfeit patients. Investigators removed approximately 90 pill bottles from the bedroom. When cops arrived at the scene to investigate Murphy’s death, they discovered dozens of prescription pill bottles. Cyril Wecht, who also worked on President Kennedy’s assassination case – “ pretty darned rare” that both Brittany and Simon would die of the exact same cause. The director later wrote that how he “hopes that this creep wasn’t instrumental in her sad demise” Simon Monjack died shortly after her deathįive months after the death of Brittany, her husband Monjack died of the same causes as of her’s, pneumonia anemia. Monjack was kept for the role of “a con man and a bad guy” by director George Hickenlooper in Factory Girl. Her movies were “So Horrible”Īpart from multiple evictions, fraud, and unpaid legal settlements, Murphy’s husband made some controversial statements about her movies when he replied to the allegations that he was living off Murphy’s money.Īfter Murphy’s death, he told in an interview: “ He was actually the one paying the bills because Murphy wasn’t making any money off her “god-awful films that went straight to DVD-so horrible that she wanted to kill herself.” In 2013 Angelo had an independent toxicology analysis performed on Murphy, after which he believed that doctors found high levels of barium – a chemical substance that is commonly used in some rat poisons – in her hair and that chronic arsenic poisoning is often confused as anemia, which Murphy allegedly suffered from at the time of her death. In an interview, Brittany Murphy’s father Angelo Bertolotti proposed the idea that his daughter’s death was “definitely a murder situation.”
