14 DAY TRIAL // The Nancy Motes suicide scandal has subsided since it took place on February 9 at the beginning of the year, but it's coming back with a vengeance, as the suicide note is revealed to point a blaming finger at none other than actress Julia Roberts, Nancy's step-sister.
The Daily Mail claims that the suicide note Nancy left behind is filled with hatred towards her family and to Julia in particular, from whom she seems to have drifted apart in later years. Motes says that Julia was so “cruel” to her that she “drove [her] into the deepest depression [she's] ever been in.”
The note is written as a kind of testament, and Julia is dissed one final time by being called “so-called sibling” who will stand to inherit nothing from Nancy except the guilt that it was she who finally pushed her over the edge.
In the handwritten note, Motes alleges that the abuse Julia put her through often made her “burst into tears because I wake up.” It's clear that Nancy was experiencing some serious self-esteem issues, as her death came at a time she was struggling with drug addiction as well as weight issues.
When police found her in the bathroom of a doctor's apartment for whom she was supposed to dog-sit, it was ruled as a suicide. Ever since then, the media has been trying to make a connection with this death and Julia Roberts, since Nancy often wrote hurtful things on Twitter about her, blaming her for her fall into depression.
The same message was conveyed to the press by Nancy's fiancé at the time of her death, John Dillbeck, who is at the moment engaged in a bitter legal battle with the actress over Nancy's estate. In her last message, Nancy wrote that John was going to get everything she owned, including her dog Lucy.
Before committing suicide, Motes wrote three separate messages, one for her fiancé, one for her mother Betty, and her step-sister Julia, and a final one addressed to everyone. These have all been filed in court papers to probate Nancy's estate.
Under California law, the coroner is obligated to give the final messages to the persons to whom they are addressed, this is why the version addressed to John has made its way into the press. Julia and her mother have chosen not to add their versions in the trial, which is why they are still private.