14 DAY TRIAL // When actress Brittany Murphy was pronounced dead in December last year at the young age of 32, speculation ran rampant that drugs were somehow involved. On the contrary, her husband says on Larry King Live on the first interview since Murphy’s tragic and sudden death: she did not do drugs, hardly drank alcohol and was not mentally deranged. It was Hollywood that broke her heart, he says, as E! Online informs.
Monjack and his mother in law, Sharon Murphy, are still having problems coping with the reality of Brittany’s death. She was always a “bubbly” personality and this could explain why some people thought she might have been under the influence on certain occasions. But that doesn’t change the fact that, at the end of the day, Brittany was clean of illegal substances. Moreover, Monjack says, if we’re looking for someone to pin the blame on, that thing is Hollywood.
“It’s like a rebirth. There’s not enough time – your dreams, be they good or bad, when you wake up and I reach out to touch or hold my wife, she isn’t there. Sharon and I were holding each other. And they let us know at the same time that she hadn’t made it. But we knew before that. You felt her life go out of her. You want to know what broke Brittany Murphy’s heart? Hollywood broke Brittany Murphy’s heart,” Simon Monjack said on the Larry King interview.
In a separate interview, this time with People magazine, Sharon Murphy said she believed her daughter’s death was due to a heart condition she had ever since she was little and that got worse with a cold. Speculation of drug use or alcohol abuse is gratuitous and unfounded, the grieving mother also stressed and toxicology results would undoubtedly show that once they arrive.
“She had a little bit of a cold. You could never in a billion years imagine this happening. She never even drank. Maybe a glass of champagne at New Years. But everyone used to say she was wasted, she was this, she was that. It was hard for anyone to imagine that somebody was so high on life,” Sharon Murphy explained for People.