Brittany Murphy by Logan Flood

         

        There are many different conspiracy theories about what happened to Brittany Murphy. On December 9, 2009, did the beautiful 32- year- old actress die of natural causes, or is there more to the story (“Brittany Murphy”)? Some say it was drugs. To this day, it is still a mystery about what how Brittany passed away, and many say they know what happened. How could a small town girl with a child hood full of hopes and dreams die so tragically, it doesn’t make sense to anyone.

            Brittany Murphy always had an internal trait to become an actress. By the time she was five years old, she knew she wanted to be a star. With her long blonde hair, dark brown eyes and fare skin she had the modern classic Hollywood look to her. She started attending Verne Flowers School of Dance and Theater at age six. Brittany started pushing her mother for help to get head shots, hire a manager, and drive into Manhattan often to go to additions for movies and commercials ("The Final Difficult Days of Brittany Murphy").   By age eight, Brittany’s parents filed for divorce, and she and her mother moved to Colonial, New Jersey, where Brittany started her acting career. In 1990, at age thirteen, the young talented actress moved to Burbank, California, with her mother. After casting in several national commercials, Brittany landed her very first television role on Blossom. She also appeared in many different little shows like “King of the hill”, ads for Gap the clothing company and in her later years of acting she played in the big known movie called “8 mile” that also stared Eminem the rapper. ("Biography”). Brittany’s desire to be an actress came when she was a young child, and she fulfilled her dream.

            It has been said, that on the day Brittany died it was because of “pneumonia”. After doing an autopsy, results came back with a very shocking discovery. There was a numerous amount of prescription pills in Brittany’s system. There is a twist to the story that makes readers think otherwise about her dying from “pneumonia”. Five months after she passed away, Brittany’s husband died from the same cause in their home they once shared together. When both were diagnosed with the sickness, they were prescribed hydrocodone to help with symptoms and pain. A numerous amount was also found in his system ("Brittany Murphy's Mother's Claim: My Daughter Wasn't 'Murdered"). I strongly believe that Brittany was secretly addicted to the pills and overdosed. After the death, her husband could not handle it and killed himself by over dosing. But there’s another twist to the story that also makes me think otherwise, Brittany had been complaining days before about her breathing and saying that she didn’t feel right and they told her to cut down on the amount of medication she was taking but she had such a large amount of it in her system after doing an autopsy it makes me wonder if her care taker which was her mother was secretly was putting the medication in her food and drinks to kill her and that’s how she over dosed? Brittany’s father said that there is no way she could have done this to herself he says she was not that type of person to take her own life and did not have an addictive personality. Brittany’s mother and father were divorced and didn’t have a very good relationship and when she died her father instantly was pointing the finger at her mother, he says Brittany had over 4.5 million dollars in her life insurance policy all in her mom’s name. She was the first one to discover Brittany and five months after the death she discovered Brittany’s husband. How coincidental is it that she finds Brittany and then finds Monjack in the same home they once shared together and they both died from the same exact cause and both had the same exact care taker..

They say Brittany died from her sickness of “pneumonia” but, after getting her autopsy report back there was a high count of hydrocodone in her system along with another prescribed pill called Topamax, hydrocodone can be taken if sick with upper repertory problems and Topamax is for people that have seizures or may get frequent headaches. She also had a chronic iron deficiency but it was said that could have been because of her heavy menstrual periods. A normal level of hydrocodone in someone’s system is 7.5-10 mg if taken every six to seven hours. 90 mg of hydrocodone at one time is reported as the known lethal dose in medical literature. This is 9 times the maximum amount you might normally be prescribed. Brittany was found to have an excessive amount of drugs in her system. Seven to ten days before Brittany was discovered dead she made complaints about her breathing and feeling light headed. ("Staggering Amount of Prescription Drugs Found in Brittany Murphy's Bedroom: Report.")  Research has proven that the Topamax and hydrocodone mixed together can be very deadly and also cause your breathing to slow down. Five months after Brittany’s shocking death, on May 23^rd, 2010 her husband was found dead. After doing an autopsy he had the same exact medication in his system. Topamax and hydrocodone.

            There are still many different conspiracy theories about what really happened to Brittany Murphy, how did a beautiful 32 year old just pass away? She had many wonderful career years ahead of her. It is still a mystery, but after years of investigating there are many more facts and possibilities about how it happened.

1.      Poisoned by mother

2.      Died from “pneumonia”

3.      Over dosed on pain medication

After investigating and doing an autopsy they discovered that Brittany’s death was ruled out to be “accidental” and it was the of Topamax and hydrophone mixed together that caused her breathing to slow down and shortly after the morning of December 9^th she passed away in her restroom. The mystery I think that is still questioned is rather if Brittany was taking the medication herself or if someone was putting it in her food and drinks. Don’t you think if she noticed the medication taking effect on her body 7-10 days before she died then she would have stopped talking the medication and asked her doctor about it?