Morbid - Episode 170: The Mysterious Death of Brittany Murphy

Episode Date: September 11, 2020

This week's mini morbid is Ash-centric and way harsh, Ty. We’re looking into the death of actress, Brittany Murphy. Did she simply die of natural causes or did the husband do it? Brittany collapsed in her home on Dec 20, 2009 and the details surrounding the case have always struck us as strange, secretive and quite frankly, dark. Something leaves us with a bad taste in our mouths here. As always, thank you to our sponsors: Best Fiends: With over 100 million downloads and tons of five-star reviews, Best Fiends is a must-play! Download Best Fiends FREE on the Apple App Store or Google Play. That’s FRIENDS without the R – Best Fiends! Hello Fresh: Go to HelloFresh.com/80morbid and use code 80morbid to get a total of $80 off your first month, including free shipping on your first box. Additional restrictions apply, please visit HelloFresh.com for more details. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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of your home. Download the free Angie mobile app today or visit Angie.com. That's ANGI.com. Hey weirdos, I'm Alena and I'm Ash. And this is a mini morbid. Mini, mini, mini, mini, mini, more bed. Mini, more bed, mini, more bed, mini more bad, mini more bad. And it's ash centric, ash centric. Basically, like Alaina said, it's a mini more bid, so you know we just get right into those. I know. We don't really have a lot to. There's really not a lot to say.

All the big announcements came, you know, earlier in the week and last week. Yeah. And normally we save like any kind of announcements for the main episode, which will be Alainus. Yeah, on Saturday. Got you to it. B-E-T-O-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-I-D-D-I-D-I-D-I- But it's also, I'm exhausted because it was littlest ones first birthday yesterday. That was happy birthday littlest. HBD. And although we couldn't have like the blowout party I usually have for all the kids

from their birthdays. We had a fucking party. We tried. We gave it our best shot. Yeah. You know? Ash really did the damn thing. Ash and Annie were like the heroes of the day.

Well, because we don't have kids, so like we don't have a lot to do. But regardless, the littlest one was not exactly exhausted at the end of the day. Oh, so she didn't have a cake crash? She was, she had the cake crash, which then turned into like, Oh, no, I'm over tired.

So we were up all night. I'm exhausted. I'm not a real person right now. So like pair that with the gloomy day and I'm just not awake. My cats kept waking me up last night. Oh, so it's not the same as kids, but like at least it doesn't crawl onto your face. That was literally the best. My cats kept me awake last night. If anybody has cats, then you understand. They jump on your freaking head and they meow and your goddammy. Yeah, it's the exact same thing.

It's the same as kids. Yeah, totally. Don't they just jump on your face and meow and you're absolutely the same? Anyways, that has nothing to do with what we're talking about today. Today, we are talking about what are we talking about? The late Britmf Brit Merf Britney Murphy Yes, so it's by me a coat no

Just kidding. I want the vanilla kind. Oh, so good. I like the cherry one I think we're also a little sloppy because yesterday was a lot, you know, cats and kids. Yeah, you know, cats and kids and whatnot. We have too many things. So yeah, so no, the reason that I wanted to do this is one, I feel like this is like a highly requested one in the inbox of morbid podcasted jibbo.gov. And then also, I started watching Sister Sister on Netflix. Yeah, you sure did.

And wow, wowzers. She's Britney plays Sarah in sister sister and she's like kind of like a bad girl in that show. I forgot that she's in like a lot of the, like she's in Boy Meets World. Yeah, I referenced that later. She's playing like, Trini, Trini.

Exactly. I literally referenced that later. I love that. So yeah, this case is a little wild. Well, maybe let you know my opinion at the end. Maybe I won't, I don't know. It depends on how you feel. Yeah, it depends on how I'm feeling. So it's good feeling vulnerable at the end and you want to just let it all out. Yeah, I'm not often feeling vulnerable. Well, Bernie Murphy was born on November 10th, 1977, two for parents. A month from now. Yeah, shit.

I don't even think about it. Look at that. Today is the 10th. It's me and Annie's anniversary, technically. Look at that. The three-ish years, LML. Anyways, her parents were Sharon Murphy and Angelo Bertolotti. And I think I said that right, but probably not.

If you see a picture of Brittany's dad Angelo, it's like really scary because, well, it's scary and like a cute way because they have the exact same eyes. I'm definitely looking this up. There, yeah, because like, Brittany's eyes are Angelo's eyes. It's the craziest thing he gave her his eyes. He did. So Sharon primarily took care of Brittany

because her father was in an out of jail for basically like the first two years of her life. He was connected to the mob and he would be in jail for things like counter-fitting or like racketeering. Wow. You know that fun stuff. That high end crime. That mob life. That mob life.

You do picture yet? I did and now I'm freaking out because he really does have the same eyes. Like that's Britney Murphy's eyes. But really it's his eyes because he had him first. Her fiance keeps coming up and that's That's a lot. Yeah, we're gonna get into that It's like what happened there what happens. It's it's a ride guys Well, Britney was like wicked wicked close to her mom because like I said she was primarily the one that was there for her

Yeah, and like her dad was kind of like in and out. They had a super, super close relationship. A lot of people said it like bordered codependency. Makes sense. There were little two close. Little two close, it happens, you know? It does. Especially in those kind of situations, it happens. Right, exactly.

And I think like, even like as she gets older and like becomes like a star, I think that kind of adds to it a little more. Yeah, because you know how they always say like those kind of like famous men and women who are like, yeah, I'm surrounded by people all the time, but I'm super lonely. So I think you cling to like the one thing

that you know is real. Right, and the one person you think will be there, you know? Exactly. And it like loves you for you. Yes, precisely. You know, you know? Well, people said also that they were like way more like sisters than they were mother and daughter. And I think even they kind of said that. Like they were like, yeah,, you know? Well, people said also that they were like way more like sisters than they were mother

and daughter. And I think even they kind of said that. Like, they were like, yeah, like where I think they literally called each other like their soulmates, which is like really sweet. That's really sad. I know. So Sharon and Angela divorced when Brittany was two. And afterwards Brittany and Sharon moved from Atlanta, Georgia. Fun fact, that's where she was born. Atlanta. I don't know that. Isn't that crazy? Huh. And they moved to New Jersey. I don't know where I thought she was from, but I thought we were here.

But I was like, Georgia, really? I was like, I didn't see that coming. Because she kind of has like a New Jersey accent. She does. Yeah. So it was super clear from a young age that Brittany loved to be in the spotlight. Any time a camera was on her, she was like, I'm about to put on a performance. Like, everybody, let's get it. So any chance she got to be in that spotlight, she was like, I'm about to put on a performance. Like, everybody, let's get it.

So, any chance she got to be in that spotlight, she was going to take it and she was good at it. And she would like point at the TV and be like, I want to be on the TV someday. So, I would scare me. Yeah, I'd be like, I shouldn't have done that. I'd be like, no. Sorry. So, she know what we know about Hollywood.

It's like, definitely. No. Well, her mom was like, okay, like, you're good at this. Like, let's, let's do it. And it was a different time back then too. We hadn't seen all these like childhood stars kind of. Yeah. Go off the deep end. Yeah. I don't know.

Well, so they moved out to Hollywood in 1990. And Brittany got her first role as, I don't know if you've ever seen this Brenda in Drexels class. Oh, yeah. I had never heard of that. Wait, I don't know if you've ever seen this Brenda in Drexels class? Oh yeah. I had never heard of that. Wait, I do know what that is. I didn't.

Oh, that's weird. That's about like a principle, I think, like a high school principle and like her home life, like her family. Yes, that just brought up like weird nostalgic memories. You're welcome. Whoa. The show was only on for one season,

but Brittany found other really good roles. Like I said, Sarah and sister sister, you said Trini and Boy Meets World. Abby on Party of Five, did you watch that? I watched a little bit of Party of Five not enough to see her. Yeah, I never watched it. And then in 1995, she got what is probably

her most famous role in the movie Clueless as Ty. Ty. And seriously, I'm gonna go on a quick tangent. If you have never seen Clueless as Ty. Ty. And seriously, I'm going to go on a quick tangent. If you have never seen Clueless, you need to stop like turn this off right now. Go watch Clueless. It's the best movie in all of ever. And then come back. And then come back. Yeah. Take care of what happened to Ty. Yeah. Because Ty is the best, guys. Oh, she is. Annie always says that I remind her of Cher in that movie. You do. Yeah. I am Cher. So, but Ty, Brittany Murphy was supposed to be like the chubby,

front-be-girl that Alicia Silverstone, aka Shara, makes over. Way harsh, Ty. Way harsh, Ty. Then she, after that movie, lost a lot of weight to the point where people were like, is she on cocaine? Like everybody said that she had cocaine addiction or like, um, like an eating disorder people like a shianna-rexic because she did lose a lot of weight.

Oh, she became kind of skeletal. Yeah, a little concerning. But she also, when she was younger and like throughout her life, was a ballerina. So people, she like said she was like that, it does like crazy things to your body. Oh, for sure. And later on when she does die, they said there was no signs of an eating disorder. Well, there you go. So there's that. Yeah. And she said that she had never done cocaine because she was too afraid to, because when she was younger, she found that she had a heart

murmur. And she wasn't going to do anything to fuck with that. No. Which you shouldn't. No, definitely not. Don't do that. Well, back to Clueless because all words lead back to Clueless. I was literally just going to say that it's actually my thing. It was a huge hit. That's why I urged you to turn this off and go listen to it and then come back. Sure was. And after that, that was like Britney's big break. She got roles in 8 Mile with Eminem.

Oh yeah, I remember that. Sin City, did you say that? Yep. Oh, she was great in Sin City. And I never saw that. She's great. Girl Interrupted. So good. Such a good movie. Uptown girls, which Elena has never seen. No, and I have no desire to see that movie. It's so good, but I can see why you wouldn't have it in her. Yeah. Um, but yeah, so she got like really, really great roles after that. Yeah.

And actually, little black book. You know, that was, I saw that movie when I was like seven. Wow, far too young. Yeah, little too young. But it's really good. And while she was filming eight miles, she really hit it off with M&M, and they dated briefly. Well, I remember that,

because I remember her, I remember when the VMAs were like a thing you watched. Remember we used to watch them together all the time? Because they were an event. Yeah. Because there was actual like good music. And there was like, there was. Because there was actual good music. And there was like performances.

There was actual rock bands. You knew who everybody was. I knew who people were. Now I'd watch it and I would have no, I'd feel like I was on Mars. I'm 24 years old and I recently watched the VMAs. And the entire time I was like, who's that? I would have no idea who anyone was.

No idea. No idea. No idea what anything is. I wouldn't know what anyone was talking about. But back then, I remember, because I think, if I remember correctly, because I can see it in my head right now, it was when he did the performance, Eminem, where he had like a billion clones of him come in, and he wanted the real Slim Shady to stand up. Exactly. And he had all these clones come into the place, and it was like this big event, and they

kept panning back to Brittany Murphy in the audience and she was like jamming. I love it. And that's when everybody was like, oh my god, they're dating. Like that was when everybody was like, holy shit, they're definitely dating because she was like clearly buried into it.

Yeah, I love that. And I just like picture it in my head. That actually reminded me. She also said she was like, people always think that I'm fucked up because I'm always the girl dancing at a party. But she's like, I just love to dance. I'm never that fucked up.

She seems like she was just that person. That was just hyper. Yeah. And very over the top. Like just a good fucking time. Yeah. And she was like, I'll have a glass of champagne from time to time, but other than that,

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John and I used to watch that like all the time. Really? Yeah. I don't know why, but we did. I love that. But before we got married, we used to watch that all the time. I need to watch it. It's on um, Amazon Prime. And somehow after watching it, we still got married. Well, there you go. So you wouldn't know. But after watching it, you're like, um, I know it was like that. So yeah, she had some whirlwind romances with her co-stars.

I get it, girl. But then in 2006, she met screenwriter Simon Monjok. And after just a year of dating, and they dated very quietly, they got married in a small Jewish shermoney. A shermoney, a shermoney. That shocked the tabloids, because they were like, wait a second, we didn't even know she was fucking engaged.

Like, wait, is she dating someone? Yeah, like when she was like, yeah, I was, I was. And a lot of people in Hollywood were shocked when it got out. And people were like a little bit pissed off. Like, they thought like stars should date stars, which is like a little bit ridiculous. Like people were pissed off. Yeah. No genuinely. Like people were mad. It's weird. Like I read an article about it. And then also they said, stars should date stars. Keep it within Hollywood, mother fucker.

But like, what about that, David? He married a waitress. What about like many people? And he has many, many kids with her. Yeah, like the cutest. I love that. I love it. But yeah, but also the people were mad too, because Simon didn't exactly have like the best reputation. No.

Brittany was his third wife, which like whatever. Yeah, like it happens. His first wife said that she owed him, or he owed her $50,000. That's a pretty sizable debt. He also had some weird fraudulent past where he seems fraudulent. A bit of a con man. He seems a little fraudulent, too. Yeah, exactly.

He just got an heir of fraudulence. He was a bit of a con man. And people had warned Brittany about marrying, or even just being involved with him. They were like, yeah, like, don't do that. Uh-oh. No, thank you. But they said that once the two got involved, Simon was very controlling. And he would tell Brittany who she was going to talk to and who she wasn't going to talk to. Oh, no. So we see where this is going. But Brittany stuck by aside. And you know, it's like people like people can say what they want to and I feel

like there's so many rumors about like Hollywood romances and you just really never know. So I don't know, but she's stuck by a side and kind of almost to a fault because on the set of the movie The Collar, do you have to see that one? No, I didn't see that one. I haven't either. But Simon stumbled in drunk on set while they were filming and the director was like, Brittany, get him out of here. What the fuck? And she wouldn't, so she got fired.

Oh yeah, that's, I mean, that's your, your what fiancee or husband at that point. Right. Comes stumbling into your workplace drunk. Because that's the thing, like, you have to remember, like, that's a workplace. Yeah. That is what you do for work. That's literally what you do for work.

Right. That's the disrespect there is like astronomical. Huge, right, exactly. That's a crossing a line. And it was said that like that, once she kind of started dating him, she also went downhill. Like yeah, she got a little wrapped up in that. Oh yeah, I mean, if he stumbled and then drunk in the middle

of something, probably in the middle of the day. Right. That's bad news bears. What's going on there? He was like, I never did that. That's not true. Oh, okay. Obviously.

We just have to stay both sides. So on a contrary of many, like, unhappy opinions, Sharon loved him. So her mom was like, her mom is like her biggest supporter and she's like, I really like him. Wow. Sharon and Brittany had always lived together

and that didn't change when Simon entered the picture. They all just lived together. Okay. Which is like, live your life. Yeah, like, live it. They lived, okay. Yeah. Sure, okay.

Like, I want to, it's funny because like on the surface, I'm like, yeah, total like that happens all the time, but this particular instance, I'm like, it feels weird. It's something's weird. And it feels weird for a good reason. I don't know why, it's just... We'll get to it, it's stinky.

So actually, this is funny. They lived in Britney Spears' old home in the Hollywood Hills. Britney Murphy brought the home from Britney Spears in 2003. And I hope a Britney still lives there because I feel like that should just be a running theme. A Britney needs to be like a Britney dynasty house. Like, it's Britney bitch. It's Brittany bitch.

Sorry, all the time. So yeah, they all live together. And according to Simon's own mother, the way that they live together was not really healthy. No, because she went as far as calling them hoarders and describing some of the windows as boarded up. She said there was like no air flow in the home and that there was mold in the home, like in the windows. And we're going to get into it later. So I'm just going

to briefly say this, like Simon gives, like a home tour later on after Brittany dies. And he's like, and these are all her clothes. And you can't tell what the room is, but according to his mom, it's the living room or the dining room. I forget what she said, but it's literally like the entire room. It looks like a big closet. But it's either the living room or the dining room. She's like, yeah, they were all hoarders. Oh, I hate that.

That actually gives me anxiety. Just thinking about it. And then they show the bathroom and the whole thing and there's just like so many products, like tons and tons of products everywhere. Like, and it doesn't look dirty. Like I wouldn't say it looks dirty. It just in sit like clutter times 10 like clutter on steroids And you I mean it's Britney Spears is old home too, so you know, it's a huge house

It's a lot of space big. Yeah, so for it to be cluttered. That's a lot of shit definitely lots and lots of things So definitely not the healthiest living conditions Yeah, and potentially the reason that Brittany wound up sick as sick as she did. And potentially the reason Simon died just five months after Brittany did in the same home in the same exact way. You know I totally forgot that. Really? But that's part of this. That's part of this. Like you just blew my mind. Oh yes, I love in that happens. I just haven't thought of this case in so long that I forgot all these little details.

They totally forgot that. In the same house in the exact same way. And it's not like, we're gonna get into how it was, but it's like weird that they died the exact same. So, Brittany has been sick for a few days leading up to December 20th, 2009. She had just actually returned from a movie set in Puerto Rico and she was suffering pneumonia, chest pains, a bad cough, and just like all around

like body weakness. Sounds like COVID. It does sound like COVID. Perhaps it was. The directors of the movie said that she had been fired because so this is another movie that she's going to throw from, because she was disoriented on set. Her bathroom breaks were too long and she was constantly forgetting her lines. And I do remember there being a period of time where like she would give interviews and you were like, uh oh. Girl, you okay? Yeah, like those just seemed just on a different planet along. Well, and toward the end of her career, like I said,

like she was in movies like Clueless and Girl and Jeroved it. I'm set like naming these big name movies. And then toward the end of her career, she kind of got like indie thrillers that like are not bad movies, but it's like easier to get those roles. They were like, be roles as opposed to A roles. Yeah, like what's an action? One of the movies I remember it was a bigger one though.

Across the hall. Is it, is that, no, the one that's like where she did that, oh, never tell. Oh, fuck that one freaks me out. Not to catch a spider. Um, shit. I'm gonna have to look at that. Yeah, look it up, look it up.

You go ahead and I'll look this up. Oh, that line always gives me like the chills. Oh, never tell. So breaking. So yeah, so they fired her. And for some reason, even though she was so sick, she didn't go see a doctor. Although, and this is sad, there are rumors

that she had made a doctor's appointment, ironically scheduled for the day after she passed away. Oh. But it's not, it's just so, it might just be on those stupid things that's like, this would add to the sad, this is it all. It's don't say a word, by the way. I don't know why I had it mixed up with to catch a spider But yeah, don't say a word is a great movie. Yeah

But yeah, so toward the end of her roles or her career she wasn't getting like as bigger roles and it was because of her behavior on set Which kind of reminded me if you're not a patron, maybe donate to the Patreon and listen to the Marilyn Monroe episode. Oh yeah, because it is a very similar kind of trajectory a little bit. It is. Hollywood style. So the 911 call came on the morning of December 20th, and it came from Sharon. Okay.

She sobbed on the phone. Somebody's passed out. Somebody. Your daughter, you mean? Her name's Brittany. Your daughter, you mean? Her name's Brittany. Hall? Like you created her?

Like you're very close, remember? And then she does ultimately say my daughter, but the first opening line is somebody. Somebody's passed out. Which is weird if you ask range. The 911 operator encouraged Sharon to perform mouth to mouth. Simon did it while Sharon was on the phone, but Brittany had been like coughing violently to the point of throwing up. And she had collapsed once before that that morning.

And the first time. And the one's calling 911 when this is happening. No. And the first time she told her mom, Mommy, I'm dying, I love you. The first time she collapsed. That just hurt my soul in a way that will never be repaired. And right before she collapsed the second time, she said like, I don't remember the exact quote, but she asked her mom for a hug and was like, oh, I'm out. Like, this is it. What the fuck?

Why wasn't her mother calling that like, I'm sorry. She said, what the fuck? I have her in town. Mommy, I don't feel well. Oh, yeah. Okay. When a grown-ass woman is saying,

Mommy, I don't feel well. Like, call a fucking ambulance. Yeah, exactly. And she's passing grown-ass woman is saying, Mommy, I don't feel well, like call a fucking ambulance. Yeah, exactly. And she's passing out and collapsing. What the fuck? She collapsed. She collapsed twice in the second time there was nothing they could do.

Like, I don't care if I sound judgy. Like, fuck that. No, fuck that. Yeah, call the police. Like shit. Call someone. So she was taken to Cedar Sinai Hospital, but it was too late.

Yeah, it was too late. She was pronounced dead at 10 o' a.m. At 32 years old. She was younger than me. 32. And Marilyn was 36, right? Yeah, so weirdly similar. Wow. So this dude named Ed Winter,

he does all the Celeb deaths in Hollywood. Oh, you know. You know Ed Winter. He's done Michael Jackson. He's done Whitney Houston. And he was the coroner to do Britney's death as well. Wow, that's interesting. Michael Bodden did a lot of these as well.

Oh, there you go. Maybe you would have been better off doing this one. Okay, me. So there was a media frenzy right away, of course, because Britney Murphy's 32 and she just collapsed in her home and she's been acting hell-a-weird lately. I remember this too.

There were rumors that she was smoking crack a few weeks before her death. That her career was ending because she had been fired by her agency and her manager and that she had been battling a drug addiction for years. So the agency and the managers like confirm any of this. She actually did get dropped by her agency. Wow. Okay. All right. So she was going on far more than what was being put into the press. 100%. So even though Simon requested that an autopsy not be done, that doesn't. I'm sorry.

What? Like me? Why don't you want an autopsy done? He'll tell you why later, but what's it just? He'll tell you. Let's just be where we are. Don't you worry. He'll tell you.

Even though he didn't want an autopsy, Edwter was like, yeah, dude, I have to, because you're 32-year-old girlfriend, just said, excuse me, wife just suddenly died. It's not natural, it's not natural. And unless you have a religious objection or you can get a court order, I gotta do the autopsy. Yeah, of course.

So Simon couldn't get any kind of court order, or it didn't have a religious reason why, so they didn't. But people thought it was super weird that he didn't have like a religious reason why. So they did it. But people thought it was super weird that he didn't want an autopsy date. Because it's like, what are you hiding? Because why wouldn't you want to know? I would want to know every single detail of what.

The next line of my note says, why wouldn't you want all the answers to the death of your beautiful young, mostly healthy wife until a few days ago, question mark? I would literally want to know, I'd be like, I need to know what happened. Right. Because otherwise, I'm just gonna sit there and speculate

if I don't know. Maybe he already knew what happened cause he did it. Uh-oh and treat. Just saying. So Simon explained in an interview with Larry King sitting right next to Sharon. It was Sharon and Simon doing this interview

with Good Old Mr. King. That Brittany was suffering from Blair and Jaitus and he was a rabbi, so he prayed instead of prescribing. And everyone was like, since when are you a fucking rabbi? What? Like, I'm sorry. What? What? What? And I literally wrote what? And then Larry King was like, yeah, like, what do you, how do you feel about people calling you as Fengali? Which like, if you don't know what that means, it basically is somebody that like just controls like your manipulates and controls. Exactly. And he said, and I quote,

Fengali, I should be so lucky. What? You want to be lucky enough to control somebody's mind? Like your wife? What the fuck? Qua? I should be so lucky. It's like, bro, if youwa? I should be so lucky. It's like bro.

If you are not looking to be super special for, oh, it gets more sus. It gets more sus. He read the wrong manual. Then to explain why he didn't want an autopsy done, he responded and get ready to like put your creep goggles on so you can swim through this with me. I don't know.

This pristine body that was curvy in all the right places. Huh! Skin-like silk? To have it cut open? What the fuck? He's on Larry King talking about his dead wife and says this pristine body that was curvy in all the right place.

Like, ew! Curvy in all the right places? You're sitting next to her mother! Like, fuck off! And she's dead! Like, please be more creepy. You can't touch that curvy body anymore. You fucking weirdo.

Perhaps TGIF like cool cool cool. Oh too much. So Sharon was there too. Did you say TGIF? I meant to say thank God. But then I was gonna say like TG and then I just went with TGIF. I was gonna let that go.

I saw that confusion on your face. Did you see it was like that meme of the lady? I think God it's with all this like like Equations go ahead cuz I was like Thing what does it mean? I was like Friday. Do you mean like TG. I.F. like that really cool lineup of shows that happened? And then I was like what no, no, I just went Friday. I just meant thank God. Okay cool TG. I F Man TG. I.F So yeah Sharon was there too. And like I said, of course, she's mourning her daughter,

but she did look very out of it. It was like laughing at Simon's weird ass jokes. Yeah, this is all just very strange. We all grieve differently, I guess. Like, here I am. I'm not accusing anybody of anything. I don't know shit. No.

I'm just saying this all looks real weird. And I'm, listen, you can say what you want about me, but I'm gonna give you all the facts from all the different angles. Exactly. Like I'm gonna say some other shit too. So before you get mad and write an email, listen to the end of the episode. Just listen all the way through. Do not pause the right email. God damn it. Because I'm gonna say some more shit. We're only halfway there. Because then you'll have to amend that email and say, oops, I listened to the rest of the episode. Oh my goodness, I just finished listening. And you said this.

So thank you. This has been a PSA. So the LA County Corner came back and said that, no foul play was involved. Seems legit. OK. But people were not convinced. Everybody was like, Ed, what?

Yalayan. Well, and also he did Michael Jackson. So it's like, oh, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. Simon had become in Whitney for that matter. So what the fuck? That's fucking, you should be fired. So I'm gonna get a cease and desist.

Simon had become increasingly weird. And it given a tour of Britney's home to radar, like shortly after her death. I was like, come look at the very bathroom where she died. Yeah, that alone is, it's really. This is the shades lounge that she collapsed on. Here's all her clothing. This shows you exactly the type of person he was

and the exactly the type of influence he was on her life. Exactly. Because no one who really loved someone for who they were. No, I cared about them. Would ever make money off of fucking radar online interviews. It would never happen.

So the corner determined that Brigham Murphy had died of pneumonia, acute anemia, and an OD of over-the-counter medications. OK. I wrote down OD slash OTC, and I was like, what does that mean again? What does OTC mean? An overdose of over the counter medications. Okay.

Lots of os. There were also many prescription medicines and Britney system, not all prescribed to her. Oh, that's good. 14 to be exact were found in her system and half of them were medic, were not prescribed to her. So like seven. Don't take someone else's prescriptions. No, because give you one piece of freaking it by the up. These prescriptions are given based on somebody's exact weight. Yeah, exactly what they need. It's like just don't do it.

It's not worth it. We're medicines that were prescribed to Simon. Oh, yeah. And he's about 17 feet taller than she Simon. Oh, yeah. And he's about 17 feet taller than she is. Right. She was 10 billion pounds heavier than she is. Right. And he was a big grease ball, yucco. Yeah. I love that. A big grease ball, yucco. So Eddie Boobar owned the pharmacy where Brittany, Simon and Sharon's prescriptions came from. And he said that he told Sharon at one point,

quote, I think you've got more than I do and I own the pharmacy. Oh, that's not good. And he said he told, and he said he remembers thinking something was gonna happen at that house. Yeah. I think he stopped giving them prescriptions at one point.

Yeah. No. Eventually it comes to a point where you're like, okay. Like I can't do that. Yeah. He also said that it wasn't unusual for celebrities to use an alias when they got their prescription. Yeah, that makes sense.

And that Brittany Murphy's often came in as Lola Manlo. Lola Manlo. No, it was an interesting Lola. It was later found out that Sharon had been going to six different pharmacies to get all of their prescriptions. That's no good. No, when your pharmacy shoppin', let me tell ya. No, it's not a good thing.

Not a good thing. Don't do it. All together, there were 90 different prescriptions in Simon's name that were found in the home. What? 90. Holy shit. Like what?

And some of the ones found in Britney System included two anti-seizure medicines. She wasn't epileptic, but Simon was And actually Topa Max we talked about it because it was in Keneke drink and sister. Yes, and then we got like a ton of Information about all the different things that can be yeah in this case. It was used as an anti-seizure medicine I know that it can be used as other things actually It can be used as an anti-seizure medicine. I know that it can be used as other things. Actually, it can be used as an appetite, suppressant or stimulant. I forget which one. But so, yeah, in this case, it was epilepsy. But she didn't prescribe that. So it's like, why? Propanarol, I think propanol, which is used for high blood pressure. Diazepam was found in her system, along with

three other benzos, which is like, that's not good. A doctor found, a doctor said that there were four different benzo diazepines in her system, and that strongly suggested a drug addiction. Oh, man. Yeah. It was also said that the overdose on the over the counter medication probably made her pneumonia worse. Yeah. Because, um, and well, they said if she had been taken to a doctor, she would be alive today, which duh. Yeah.

But when you have pneumonia and you take a cough suppressant, you're not able to hack up the mucus in your lungs. So then it gets... Which is what causing the pneumonia to begin with. Exactly. So then it gets thicker, worsening your symptoms, making you take more medicine because you think you're doing the right thing,

and then you're not. So. We gotta cough it up. It's not good. And then as far as the anemia, the corner actually said that was because of heavy periods. Oh. And I think she had,

I don't know if she had her period when she died, but she had it right around the time that she died. Oh, so that's why they said she's in like that. You know, in conjunction with the hundred of other things that was wrong, it's like when you're also anemic on top of that, you don't have a lot that's fighting. You're just helping your system fight.

Your immune system is like shot. And pneumonia is gonna like fuck your immune system. It's normally like a cute pneumonia is not gonna kill you, you know, but with all these other things. It's like, yeah. So Simon and Sharon continued to live in the home together after Brittany died, and they took on the co-dependent relationship that she and Brittany had before.

Eek, yeah, little weird if you ask me. There were photo shoots they did, like holding each other and holding Brittany's photos. I just saw a couple of those and I was like, I'm gonna put this away now. Yeah, they're real weird in my personal opinion. But like I said, everyone greeps in there, everyone greeps differently.

Do your own thing. Yeah, do you? Maybe don't do like a photo shoot with your mother-in-law holding your dead wife's pick, but okay. But like, all right. Okay. But what is strange without a fucking question is the fact that like I said,

just five months after Britney's death, Sharon was calling 911 to the 1895 rising Glenn drive. Again, that's, I can't believe I forgot about this part. So this time Simon was unconscious. On the phone, she says, my son and lost opt breathing, baby, please, baby, get up, please. Which I understand that you call older people call younger people sweet, hard, or something.

But I think baby is a little different. Especially a son-in-law. Yeah, not a son. That's a little strange to me. Yeah, and a son-in-law that you have not known for that long. It's not like he's been with your sun and law. They were only married for like three years. Yeah, and before that, they weren't even

dating for that long. So it's like, it's not like you've known this guy forever and like you've had the, I don't know. Something's weird to me. And I think it's weird too when you look at the entire situation. That's the thing. It's like in with everything.

Maybe if that was like the only thing, it'd be like, OK, I wouldn't do that, but like live your life. I just think it's strange. I think so too. I don't see my in-laws calling me baby. I don't see my parents calling John baby. I just don't see any of that.

My like not in-laws yet just call me Ash. Yeah. So they tell her to take them off the bed and try to get them onto the floor. And she says, I can't because he's gigantic. I was literally just going to say he's gigantic. She literally uses the word gigantic and I'm laughing because I'm comfortable. Yeah, it's a very uncomfortable situation.

So when they came to get Simon and investigate the scene afterwards, there were tons of prescriptions on each side of the bed. One side were all of Sharon's prescriptions. on each side of the bed. One side were all of Sharon's prescriptions, and they were in the name Sharon Monjak, which is Simon's last name. I hate this. On a lot of levels.

So it's like, why is his last name on your prescriptions? What the fuck? I wrote, what? I literally just wrote, what? What? She apparently explained this by saying that they shared the bed because they were comforting each other after losing Brittany.

But then she later denied that she ever said that. So that could be a rumor, but I feel like it's true. That's not okay. Well, wouldn't you know it? The coroner comes back and says that Simon died of acute pneumonia and anemia. Huh. Wouldn't you know it? Did you have heavy periods too?

Yes. What the fuck? Very heavy periods. What does this from? So now the tablets are going, that's so fucked so all over again. Seriously? Because people, what are the odds that two married people

husband and wife die of the exact same thing five months apart? The odds are pretty astronomical. Pretty astronomical if you ask me. And among the people who thought something was shady as fuck were Angelo, pretty sad, and her stepbrother Tony. So they both think that foul play is involved. And they point the finger at Sharon and Simon for killing Brittany. And then Sharon for killing Simon, basically and sharing that he would never turn on her. Scandal.

Scandal. So Angela was so convinced that something was a rye, he hired Sarah Wecht, and that's, he's a famous forensic pathologist in America. And he agreed that it was, quote, rare and unfathomable that a Hollywood star would die like this. He pointed out that many times a cute anemia is present in those who have been poisoned with arsenic.

Mm. So that's weird. And arsenic didn't show up in the autopsy. Angela was like, yeah, but who knows if they even did like an actual autopsy? I was gonna say, you don't know. So he was like, I think that they just like said they were doing it as a formality

and I don't think they like went to town on it. Yeah, they didn't do a proper top screen. And he's like, how do I know that they're not involved in it like a cover up like this is LA, like hello. Yeah. So Angela found out that Brittany's hair had never been tested. Which is, is that weird?

Yeah, that is strange. Like for, especially for like a high profile case and for something, and for it to be so strange, you think they would test it. Well, so he had it sent out himself to a lab. And the results came back and there were 10 heavy metals found in her hair. Huh. So, Cyril, or Cyril said,

I've never seen anything like this. And heavy metals are also consistent in people who have been poisoned. Yeah. And so, Angela went to Sharon and he said, I want to have Britney's body exhumed. And Sharon said, no, you can't, we're not exhuming her body. Okay. So I mean, I personally just like you think that that is a little shady. That's strange to me. But I am going to play devil's advocate just for anybody else that might also do the same. Maybe she just didn't want her daughter's body disturbed again. Absolutely, that could definitely be the case.

However, me personally, if they said we think something bad happened to your daughter, exume the shit out of her. Exume her, I want to see what happened. Exactly. Well, Sharon turned around and pointed the finger at Angela and was like, nope, he's just after Britney's money. Ooh.

And it's like, well, who's to say you're not after for her fucking money? Exactly, it's like, it, who's to say you're not after for her fucking money? Exactly, it's like, it doesn't work. You're the one living in her damn house. Exactly. He said that Sharon was the third person in the marriage and she was threatened when Britney and Simon started talking about having a baby and moving to New York

without her. Ah. So Angela fought for years and years to find out what happened, but he finally backed off in 2017, because he was in bad health, and then he passed away in 2019. Oh no, we need never knew exactly what happened. No, that's sad.

And Brittany's step brother, Tony, says that he still believes Simon is to blame for Brittany's death, and that sometimes in Hollywood a dead actress is worth more than she is alive. Yeah. Which is honestly super true. Like super true. So LA stands by their results and they said there was

no medals in Britney system and there are 100% sure that she wasn't murdered. There's just like case closed done so. But Richard Shepard from the show Autopsy. Have you ever watched that? I love that show. Really good. I love that show.

He went over Britney and Simon's autopsies and explained his thoughts on the entire thing. Simon, he basically was like Simon was in bad health because he was like older and larger and didn't take care of himself. Yeah. But he pointed out, because there was methamphetamine present

in Brittany system too. Oh, okay. And he pointed out that that was probably from an inhaler, although she had never been prescribed an inhaler. Simon was. Okay, so it's like she probably had that. And then he said that Brittany was potentially a hypokondriact after she had been diagnosed with the heart murmur. And then she was in

a 1995 car accident that left her with a dislocated jaw, cracked ribs, and a broken collarbone. And that's probably when she kind of started like taking more prescriptions because she was like so worried that something was wrong with her. Yeah, and it just like starts as spiral. Exactly. He also said that the metals found in Brittany's hair

were most likely from hair dye. And that's why they weren't found in her blood and only in her hair. Okay. And he was like all the heavy metals found in her hair are consistent with heavy metals found in hair dye. Oh, that's interesting. Which got me to thinking,

maybe I should stop dying my fucking hair so much. I was like, damn. Cause like, I don't really want arsenic on my head. Yeah, no. There was no arsenic. So he said it kind of ruled out her being poisoned and he pointed out that if she had been poisoned, it would have showed in her skin and her teeth,

and it didn't. Okay. He also said that the mold in the bedroom potentially weakened her immune system, and that because she and Simon were both living in the same conditions, it really wasn't that crazy that they died under the same circumstances. Okay.

Okay. And again, he's in super bad health and he's overweight and doesn't take care of himself. And he's living like this. It's like not that crazy. Yeah. And last but not least, the reason my blood poisoning is in her records is because she had a staphula caucus

and to her bloodstream. So staphula caucus can cause micro abscesses in the lungs when you have something like pneumonia, and then you're unable to produce oxygen, and that's why she collapsed twice, and ultimately died, and then her blood became infected. That does make sense. So, maybe she was murdered, maybe not, but there's still one more thing that I haven't told you yet. Because so far both of these things are plausible for me. I can't decide to be honest with you. Like it's, there's definitely some shady shit.

Uh-huh. But it's like, I don't know. Like did they do this? Like I just don't know. But this is weird. So Brittany was like super into having the house monitored all the time. They had 56 cameras around the house

and like security up the wazoo. Like, there was always a security guard there. Because Britney's family friend Julia Davis became a whistleblower for Homeland Security about procedures letting terrorists into the country. So there was going to be like this huge court case about it. And Britney was supposed to be a witness that Julius Trial.

Whoa. And like in the weeks and months leading up to Brittany's death, she became like super paranoid and always felt like she was being watched. And like even Simon's mom would say, like Simon would be like, there's airplanes flying over the house now. Like there's helicopter.

There's. Oh man. We're being followed. So that could have something to do with it too, but there's not a lot known about that because it's homeland security. Oh shit. So that is the case of Brittany Murphy. Was she murdered? Was she not? Damn, I just feel like maybe she was, but then I'm like, it does make sense that maybe she wasn't. Because mold can fuck you up. Mold can fuck you up and pneumonia can fuck you up.

Well, God, especially if you have a weak immune system. It all makes sense to be good. It's very rare that both sides make perfect sense. That's the thing, because the other side makes sense too. It's like, yeah, maybe they were gonna move and like, I don't, like, we're Simon and Sherry. Yeah. In love or something. Ooh, it's just weirdness. It's like, yeah, maybe they were gonna move and like, we're Simon and Sherry. Yeah. In love or something?

Ooh, it's just weirdness. It's weird. This weird vibe, there's a weird fog over this whole case. Yeah. I just don't know. It leaves me with a bad feeling, so that makes me feel like something more happened, but also, I like to have a bad feeling

because I like to know true crime, so. Yeah. I just, something's weird. I don't know. what do you guys think? Tell us in the comments, write us a Gmail, let us know. Yeah. This has been a Nash-Sundrake Mini Morbid. Man, this was a good one.

Thank you. RIP Brittney Murphy. I know, RIP, because I like, I was watching Sister Sister and then I reme, like every now and then I'll just remember that she's dead. Yeah, I know, it's like, aw, shit. Bummer, she's a really good actress. She was. So yeah.

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But that's so weird that you like meet this guy and you're like oh my god I love him so much but I really use a comment He might be kind of like killing you and that's so weird that you say that you're a spangali when you're not like it would be an honor to be a spangali Don't be don't keep it so weird that you want to be a spangali. That's all I have to say about that Yeah, that's a weird one. That's the weirdest one. Yeah, that's real weird Also, don't keep it so weird that you sleep in the same bed as your brother or your son-in-law after your daughter dies. Yeah, don't keep it weird.

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