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The Death of a Hollywood Star - Brittany Murphy · Wicked and Grim: A True Crime Podcast

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Speaker 1: On December twentieth, two thousand and nine, the shocking news
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Speaker 1: broke the world. Brittany Murphy, the vibrant thirty two year
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Speaker 1: old actress known for her roles in beloved films such
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Speaker 1: as Clueless, Eight Mile and Uptown Girls, passed away. Fans
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Speaker 1: and the entertainment world alike were left reeling, unable to
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Speaker 1: comprehend how someone so young and seemingly full of life
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Speaker 1: could suddenly be gone. It begged the question what happened?
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Speaker 1: And I mean, what really happened to Brittany Murphy.
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Speaker 2: My name's Ben and I'm Nicole, and you're listening to
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Speaker 1: But all that spiel over and done with we got
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Speaker 1: an interesting case today. We have the case of Brittany Murphy.
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Speaker 1: We all know who she is, or most likely know
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Speaker 1: who she is. She's an actress. She had quite the
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Speaker 1: accolades to her name. Yeah, very beautiful woman, very talented,
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Speaker 1: you name it. She had it all. Yeah, or so
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Speaker 1: it seemed.
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Speaker 2: I know. Well, I'm actually a little bit excited about
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Speaker 2: this one to hear all about it.
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Speaker 1: Well, I'm going to preface this by saying I thought
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Speaker 1: my opinion on this would be different. Okay, in over
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Speaker 1: the years, I had a very specific opinion on this case,
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Speaker 1: and now that opinion is gone, and I have a
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Speaker 1: very different opinion.
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Speaker 2: Wow, okay, wow, Yes.
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Speaker 1: Because this is well, this is the first time I've
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Speaker 1: ever actually fully researched it. I've just kind of read
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Speaker 1: some articles or like seen some highlights or seeing some
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Speaker 1: people like throughout this theory and stuff. And then I
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Speaker 1: made my decision, and I will admit I prematurely and uneducatedly,
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Speaker 1: if uneducatedly is a word made my decision. And now
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Speaker 1: after research, yeah, that's that's all out the window.
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Speaker 2: Well it's very easy to do though, sometimes, right, Yes,
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Speaker 2: when there's just so much like media coverage and stuff, on.
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Speaker 1: Cases, definitely, And I'm going to say, I hope that
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Speaker 1: I can convince you to be on the same page
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Speaker 1: as me. But I will lay out all the facts
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Speaker 1: that I discovered. You make up your own mind. I
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Speaker 1: just really hope that I can put you in the
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Speaker 1: same box as me, because I fully, fully believe that's
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Speaker 1: the answer.
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Speaker 2: Oh wow, Okay, okay.
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Speaker 3: So.
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Speaker 1: The actress Brittany Murphy was born on November tenth, nineteen
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Speaker 1: seventy seven, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, to her two parents,
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Speaker 1: Sharon Kathleen Murphy and Angelo Joseph Bertoli. Now her full
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Speaker 1: name given at birth was Brittany and Bertolely. Her parents, however,
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Speaker 1: would divorce when she was very young, and she primarily
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Speaker 1: was raised by her mother, Sharon. Her father, Angelo Berttoli,
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Speaker 1: had a bit of a turbulent past and was not
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Speaker 1: exactly involved in much of Brittany's life following their divorce,
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Speaker 1: and as such, Brittany would eventually take her mother's last
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Speaker 1: name Murphy, hence Brittany Murphy instead of Brittany Bertoli. So
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Speaker 1: her mother, Sharon moved with Brittany to Edson in New Jersey,
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Speaker 1: and she played a significant role in her young young
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Speaker 1: daughter's star, if you will, the future star that she
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Speaker 1: would become in her upbringing and future career. Sharon was
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Speaker 1: the one who recognized Britney's talent early on and supported
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Speaker 1: her aspirations for the entertainment industry. Brittany took dance and
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Speaker 1: acting lessons, and by the age of nine, she had
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Speaker 1: already begun performing in regional theater productions. Her natural talent
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Speaker 1: and charisma were quite evident, and she quickly garnered attention
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Speaker 1: for her performances. Together, her and her mother shared a
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Speaker 1: very close bond, being described as both bright, bubbly, as
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Speaker 1: well as a pair who would often finish each other's sentences.
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Speaker 1: It seemed like they were two peas in a pod,
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Speaker 1: and the path Brittany was taking only strengthen what the
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Speaker 1: two had, with Sharon often in accompanying her daughter Brittany
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Speaker 1: to various events and auditions. In nineteen ninety one, when
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Speaker 1: Brittany was thirteen, she and her mother moved away to
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Speaker 1: Los Angeles to pursue her acting career. More seriously, I mean,
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Speaker 1: LA is kind of where you got to go right.
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Speaker 1: This move proved to be a very big turning point
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Speaker 1: in her life. Within a year, of moving there, Brittany
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Speaker 1: had landed her first TV role on the sitcom called
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Speaker 1: Drexel's Class, and from there, the young Brittany it was
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Speaker 1: only the sky's the limit.
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Speaker 2: That's really cool. Hey, yeah, I mean you do kind
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Speaker 2: of You do meet kids sometimes it just seemed like
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Speaker 2: they just have it right, like yes, or they just
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Speaker 2: have this like there's something about them that just like
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Speaker 2: attracts people to them.
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Speaker 1: That's one hundred percent true. There are people who, just
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Speaker 1: as you put it, have it, and that goes for
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Speaker 1: several different categories in life. I think sports, some kids
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Speaker 1: are just naturally gifted soccer players or basketball players or
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Speaker 1: whatever it is. It just seems like they have it. However,
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Speaker 1: just because you have it does not mean you can
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Speaker 1: make it, because practice is what really drives. Who's gonna
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Speaker 1: make it. Brittany put in the practice. Maybe she did
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Speaker 1: just have it, but she also put in that, oh yeah, you.
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Speaker 2: Still have to put in the work. And I feel
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Speaker 2: like there are even individuals that say don't have it
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Speaker 2: or whatever that if they put in the work, they
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Speaker 2: can have it. Does that make sense?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? No, definitely. What I'm trying to say, and I
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Speaker 1: think what you're trying to say is basically practice beats
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Speaker 1: talent every time. If talent doesn't practice.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, excuse me, I'm good.
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Speaker 1: I'm good. I thought you were going to talk. So
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Speaker 1: I took a sip of coffee and then it was
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Speaker 1: just like blank space. So I tried to take a
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Speaker 1: quick sip of coffee and then it just inhaled it.
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Speaker 1: That was a mistake, My bad. Oh okay, moving on.
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Speaker 1: So her big break would come in nineteen ninety five
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Speaker 1: when she was cast in Ty Fraser in the classic
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Speaker 1: film that we all know because it is basically included
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Speaker 1: as a cult classic today, Clueless. Her performance is a
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Speaker 1: lovable and yet naive girl struck a chord with audiences
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Speaker 1: and critics alike, and the film's success absolutely catapulted her
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Speaker 1: to fame. Following Clueless, Brittany's career flourished. She starred in
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Speaker 1: a variety of movies, including A Girl Interpreted in nineteen
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Speaker 1: ninety nine, eight Mile alongside eminem in two thousand and two,
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Speaker 1: Just Married in two thousand and three, and Uptown Girls
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Speaker 1: in two thousand and three as well. She also lent
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Speaker 1: her voice to the character of Luenne Platter in the
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Speaker 1: animated TV series King of the Hill, which I have
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Speaker 1: to admit I did not know she played Luenn.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I had no idea.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so news to me, but but sorry. Last, but
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Speaker 1: not least, to top off her resume, she was also
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Speaker 1: a very talented singer. She also contributed to the soundtrack
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Speaker 1: of the two thousand and six film Happy Feet, which
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Speaker 1: again I didn't know.
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Speaker 2: I did know she sang, but yeah, I didn't know
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Speaker 2: that about the Happy Feet thing.
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Speaker 1: Oh okay, I didn't even know she sang. So but
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Speaker 1: I do know, like a lot of Hollywood performers do sing,
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Speaker 1: because like they go on Broadway or they developed that
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Speaker 1: talent in acting classes and all this sort of stuff.
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Speaker 1: So I knew a lot of actors sing, I just
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Speaker 1: didn't specifically know if she did.
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Speaker 2: I always get so pissy about that though. How can
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Speaker 2: you be so good at acting and singing?
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Speaker 3: Right?
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Speaker 1: Oh gosh. The one that really caught me off guard
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Speaker 1: was was Robert Downey Junior. If you could look up
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Speaker 1: him singing, Oh my god, like, how dare you be
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Speaker 1: that handsome and that good at anything? Everything? Anyways, moving on,
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Speaker 1: being a new A list Hollywood star put Britney Murphy
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Speaker 1: up for criticism as well. In an interview in the
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Speaker 1: year two thousand, she revealed that quote a very important
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Speaker 1: person in Hollywood said it was huggable but not fuckable.
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Speaker 2: Holy shit. Yeah, that's free and rude as hell.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's the sort of stuff that goes on
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Speaker 1: in Hollywood. Yeah, or at least I don't know if
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Speaker 1: it still does.
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Speaker 2: It did very much so though.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure it still does today. But it definitely
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Speaker 1: was very heavy back then because hey, social media cancel
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Speaker 1: culture and stuff was not a thing. It was just
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Speaker 1: behind closed doors. Now you can be outed a bit
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Speaker 1: more so, who knows. I'm sure it still happens, but
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Speaker 1: it was definitely heavy in that time. Now, that was
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Speaker 1: something that impacted Brittany very deeply. She came into Hollywood
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Speaker 1: with dreams of the big screen, and she was beginning
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Speaker 1: to learn just what sort of toxicity the industry held
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Speaker 1: behind these closed doors. Her personal life was also in
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Speaker 1: the spotlight, and soon after her marriage to British screenwriter
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Speaker 1: Simon Monjack was announced, everyone knew as soon as she
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Speaker 1: got married. She got married quietly personally, but right after
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Speaker 1: the world knew she was married. Yeah, yeah, Murphy and
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Speaker 1: mon Jack, sorry, I forgot to change their first name.
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Speaker 1: Brittany and Simon began the relationship into thousand and six
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Speaker 1: or in early two thousand and seven. They're not exactly
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Speaker 1: sure when they got married because it was a private marriage.
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Speaker 2: Good for them for doing it privately exactly, Yeah, but
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Speaker 2: they were only dating for a few months before they
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Speaker 2: got married, roughly six months to a year sort of thing.
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Speaker 1: It's not exactly known before finally tying them not. The
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Speaker 1: wedding was a small and intimate affair held at Brittany's
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Speaker 1: home in la with only close and friends, close family
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Speaker 1: and friends, and attendance you know, as a wedding should be.
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Speaker 2: In my opinion absolutely.
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Speaker 1: Simon, however, was a bit of a controversial figure in
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Speaker 1: Britney's life from the very start, and the relationship raised
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Speaker 1: a few eyebrows in both the media and among Britney's
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Speaker 1: friends and family. See Simon had a history of lying.
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Speaker 1: He claimed many things, owning giant art collections, being a billionaire,
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Speaker 1: like many many things that were just absurd and blatant lies.
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Speaker 1: He also had a history of financial problems, including evictions, lawsuits,
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Speaker 1: and unpaid debts. Some reports indicate that Brittany had actually
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Speaker 1: helped him financially, leading to concerns about his intentions and
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Speaker 1: also his influence over Brittany and her money, because there
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Speaker 1: were claims that he actually began to control her bank
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Speaker 1: account and control who she hung out with or who
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Speaker 1: she talked with, or even like holding her phone captive
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Speaker 1: sort of situation.
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Speaker 2: Oh okay, don't love that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. The concern only grew with how Brittany and her
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Speaker 1: life seemed to change after her marriage. When her career
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Speaker 1: began to shift, she was unable to land as many
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Speaker 1: high profile roles as she was before. Instead, she began
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Speaker 1: appearing in several more low budget films and direct to
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Speaker 1: video projects rather than ones that would be released straight
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Speaker 1: to theaters, so she would be doing ones that would
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Speaker 1: skip the theaters all together, just come right out to
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Speaker 1: I guess in this time probably DVD or Blu ray
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Speaker 1: sort of situation. So you miss a lot of income
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Speaker 1: when you're going with that low budget, and also that
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Speaker 1: kind of tarnishes your name for not being that a
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Speaker 1: lists status anymore.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: Since her marriage, Brittany was also faced with rumors about
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Speaker 1: drug use. Reports of erratic behavior on zet, weight loss
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Speaker 1: and gaunt appearance fueled speculation that she might be struggling
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Speaker 1: with substance abuse. However, there was no concrete evidence to
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Speaker 1: support any of these claims. Brittany and Simon also denied
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Speaker 1: any of the allegations and just kept their head down,
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Speaker 1: trying to ignore it all. In regard to Britney's appearance,
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Speaker 1: because she was losing weight and she did look kind
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Speaker 1: of gaunt, and I do remember looking at her, and
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Speaker 1: I remember this because I was in high school and
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Speaker 1: I thought she was very beautiful, I thought at the time.
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Speaker 1: And she kind of had black circles around her eyes.
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Speaker 2: I do remember this too.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but I thought it was beautiful because I was like, hey,
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Speaker 1: I got black circles around my eyes. I always have.
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Speaker 1: It's just kind of like how I've looked my entire life.
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Speaker 1: And I thought, hey, a Hollywood a lister with like
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Speaker 1: a similar feature to me. I love that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I didn't think it was anything negative, but a lot
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Speaker 1: of people did.
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Speaker 3: So.
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Speaker 1: In regards to her appearance, Simon stated that Brittany was
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Speaker 1: not abusing prescription drugs or any drugs for that matter,
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Speaker 1: and attributed her appearance to health issues such as anemia
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Speaker 1: and respiratory infections.
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Speaker 2: Okay, see that's I've always because with your dark circles.
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Speaker 2: I've always thought, like, oh, are you sure that you're
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Speaker 2: getting like all the vitamins you need right?
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Speaker 1: Well, at times it makes sense.
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Speaker 2: That if she could just be like low on iron
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Speaker 2: or something.
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Speaker 1: Exactly, because at times, my dark circles do get worse. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: And sometimes it's not because I haven't had my coffee
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Speaker 1: or sleep. Sometimes it is because hey, I think I'm
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Speaker 1: probably low on iron. But at times it's better. But
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Speaker 1: it's always been there, and for her, I mean, maybe
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Speaker 1: it has always been there, but there are health issues
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Speaker 1: to go along with it as well.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's too bad that, like, I mean, because
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Speaker 2: then if people, if the media and stuff are drawn
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Speaker 2: to these sort of these things, it's only going to
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Speaker 2: make stuff worse, right, because like stress and other stuff
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Speaker 2: that she's going through because of it, Like it's oh.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, quite sad. Well, she's got health problems she's suffering from,
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Speaker 1: plus her demanding career, her personal life, stress and all
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Speaker 1: of it being put in the limelight and them saying
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Speaker 1: things like, hey, you're huggable but not fuckable.
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Speaker 2: Oh like okay, just listening to this, I just feel
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Speaker 2: so terrible for her, I know, so terrible.
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Speaker 1: It took a toll on her and as it would anyone, honestly,
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Speaker 1: so in the mental health aspect alone. Her early career
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Speaker 1: was filled with attacks on her image, and now it
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Speaker 1: was just attacks on her image again, just for different reasons.
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Speaker 1: Because when she was huggable but not fuckable, she went
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Speaker 1: about like dyeing her hair, cutting her hair and trying
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Speaker 1: to fit that image that people were trying to place
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Speaker 1: her in. And now she fit that image and now
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Speaker 1: they're saying something different about her image all over again, brutal.
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Speaker 1: So no matter what she's doing, she's at a loss.
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Speaker 1: By the end of two thousand and nine, Britney's career
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Speaker 1: had significantly declined. She was even dismissed from her role
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Speaker 1: as the voice of leu Anne on King the Hill
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Speaker 1: due to her persistent rumors about substance abuse instance abuse
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Speaker 1: there we go. These rumors just painted her as unreliable, unfocused,
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Speaker 1: and as an actress who just struggled to remember her lines,
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Speaker 1: and it tarnished her reputation. Her husband, Simon instead, insisted
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Speaker 1: that these rumors were fabricated by former managers and agents
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Speaker 1: aiming to sabotage sabotage her career, whether true, or not,
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Speaker 1: her reputation was at stake. Britney and Simon contemplated walking away,
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Speaker 1: relocating to New York City, start fresh, and maybe begin
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Speaker 1: a family. However, this move presented several challenges. Britney was
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Speaker 1: a primary breadwinner and caregiver, so in regards to caregiver,
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Speaker 1: it was to her mom. Her mom, Sharon had recently
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Speaker 1: been battling multiple bouts of breast cancer cancer and the
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Speaker 1: prospect of becoming a new mother herself would require significant
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Speaker 1: changes to their life. She wouldn't be able to care
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Speaker 1: for her mother anymore, she wouldn't be able to be
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Speaker 1: the breadwinner for the family. She would be focusing on
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Speaker 1: exactly that, being a mother, going through pregnancy, raising a child.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
19:05
Speaker 1: So, Brittany continued to work in La taking on low
19:08
Speaker 1: budget films to maintain an income and support her family.
19:13
Speaker 1: Despite the challenges and declining opportunities, she remained committed to
19:16
Speaker 1: her career and to her loved ones. In November of
19:20
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine, Brittany, her husband, and her mother
19:24
Speaker 1: flew to Puerto Rico to shoot the next film that
19:27
Speaker 1: she'd be starring in, called The Caller, which was a
19:30
Speaker 1: low budget horror film. It didn't take long though, for
19:33
Speaker 1: problems to crop up there. The movie producer apparently tried
19:37
Speaker 1: to ban Simon from the set after he allegedly showed
19:40
Speaker 1: up drunk, and as a result, Brittany quit the project
19:43
Speaker 1: on the first day. Now there are different seeing of
19:48
Speaker 1: opinions on how this played out. Simon went on the
19:51
Speaker 1: record saying that Brittany wasn't happy that it was a
19:53
Speaker 1: horror film. She was led to believe it was a thriller.
19:56
Speaker 1: Oh okay, and quit because of that. But either way,
19:59
Speaker 1: she walked off the set the first day and did
20:01
Speaker 1: not start in the film.
20:02
Speaker 2: Oh that's really too bad. I also feel like that
20:05
Speaker 2: in New York when you brought up that New York plan,
20:07
Speaker 2: like that's so lovely. It's really too bad that you
20:11
Speaker 2: know they that they couldn't.
20:13
Speaker 1: Do that right one, But as we all know, money
20:16
Speaker 1: runs the world. Well yeah, and it's hard to turn
20:19
Speaker 1: down such a good job that she has that pays
20:21
Speaker 1: so well. Totally, if she were to do that, they
20:23
Speaker 1: would go to New York and she'd probably have to
20:26
Speaker 1: go to school and do something else, pick another career.
20:28
Speaker 1: Because there's a lot of actors and actresses out there
20:30
Speaker 1: that have quit Hollywood, and you see now that it's like, oh,
20:33
Speaker 1: they're a vet or they're a teacher and this and that,
20:36
Speaker 1: and they're just living regular lives like you and me.
20:39
Speaker 1: So that's what they would probably have had to do,
20:42
Speaker 1: and that's tough to do.
20:43
Speaker 2: That is very tough. Yeah, changing careers is very tough.
20:46
Speaker 1: Many people, I'm sure, like out there listening to this,
20:48
Speaker 1: have contemplated quitting their job, but they haven't been able
20:51
Speaker 1: to because why.
20:53
Speaker 2: Money, the money? You need the money because well, yeah,
20:55
Speaker 2: you get adapted to living with a certain amount of money,
20:58
Speaker 2: and yeah, yeah, it's very hard to change that.
21:01
Speaker 1: So they're in Puerto Rico, walked off the set and
21:04
Speaker 1: instead of heading back home right away, they decided to
21:06
Speaker 1: turn this work trip into a family vacation instead. Some
21:10
Speaker 1: time away might be good. They continued their stay on
21:13
Speaker 1: the island for eight more days, and on their flight
21:15
Speaker 1: back home, Simon and Britney's mom, Sharon, began to get sick.
21:20
Speaker 1: Simon was reportedly so sick that he had to perform
21:23
Speaker 1: an emergency landing mid flight so they could take him
21:26
Speaker 1: to the hospital. Apparently, this was a result of a
21:29
Speaker 1: staholocaucus areas, which is the bacteria responsible for staff infections.
21:36
Speaker 1: They did manage to make their way home, and they
21:38
Speaker 1: reportedly remained sick and they were treated for a pneumonia.
21:42
Speaker 1: Oh geez, it would only be two or three more
21:45
Speaker 1: weeks after the return home that Brittany's mom made a
21:49
Speaker 1: devastating nine to one one.
21:51
Speaker 3: Call address of the emergency. What's the phone where you're
21:58
Speaker 3: calling from? Telling exactly what happened?
22:00
Speaker 4: Oh, somebody costs out?
22:02
Speaker 2: Somebody somebody doesn't cost out.
22:07
Speaker 4: Doing come back please?
22:10
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, all right, we're going to how old is
22:12
Speaker 3: your daughter?
22:14
Speaker 1: Please?
22:16
Speaker 3: Can you feel her hear any breathing?
22:18
Speaker 2: You were here?
22:19
Speaker 3: Any breathing? Can you feel here any breathing? Yes or no? Ma'am? Hello, hello, hello,
22:32
Speaker 3: please it just takes them a second. Can you feel
22:35
Speaker 3: her hear any breathing?
22:37
Speaker 4: Did you hear anything?
22:39
Speaker 3: Yes or no? Yes?
22:40
Speaker 2: You know?
22:42
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, listen, let me carefully. I'm gonna tell
22:44
Speaker 3: you how to do compressions.
22:45
Speaker 4: Okay, ma'am, ma'am, do you s her chest?
22:57
Speaker 3: Okay? Needs to continue? Okay, is did you anybody see
23:01
Speaker 3: what happened? Ma'am? Ma'am? Did anybody see what happened?
23:07
Speaker 2: He good?
23:08
Speaker 3: Walk Oh my God, has she taken any kind of
23:13
Speaker 3: medications at all? What is she taking? No medication? Is that?
23:20
Speaker 1: In the early morning of December twentieth, two thousand and nine,
23:24
Speaker 1: Brittany Murphy collapsed on the balcony of her Hollywood Hills home.
23:28
Speaker 1: Brittany had apparently been sick for about six weeks at
23:31
Speaker 1: this point, and because, as her mother claimed, she had
23:35
Speaker 1: a flare for the dramatic, her cries went unnoticed and
23:39
Speaker 1: were not taken too seriously. She was tended to by
23:43
Speaker 1: her mother and Simon, but hours later she collapsed for
23:47
Speaker 1: a second time. She was rushed to Cedar Sinai Medical Center,
23:52
Speaker 1: where she died at only thirty two years old.
23:56
Speaker 2: Wow, that call gave me ghostbumps to That was brutal.
24:03
Speaker 1: That call was not the whole call, of course, cut
24:08
Speaker 1: off at the end there a bit, but there was
24:10
Speaker 1: a section in between that is edited out. It's not
24:13
Speaker 1: any concern to be edited out because you can find it.
24:15
Speaker 1: That's just the best one I found as a whole.
24:18
Speaker 1: But he gives them instruction on to tilt her head
24:21
Speaker 1: back to open basically open er airway to see if
24:23
Speaker 1: they can feel breathing, and he asks if there's an
24:26
Speaker 1: aed available. But that's that's about it. So you can
24:29
Speaker 1: hear that piece. I just didn't find it again as
24:31
Speaker 1: a whole.
24:32
Speaker 2: Yeah gosh, Oh my gosh, I don't know. Like also,
24:37
Speaker 2: bless those people that are are what are like the
24:41
Speaker 2: people that get these calls?
24:43
Speaker 1: I just first responders basically.
24:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like that would just be so difficult to have
24:48
Speaker 2: to deal with, Like you're getting a call from someone
24:51
Speaker 2: at their litteral worst moment and you're having a stay
24:53
Speaker 2: calm and like direct them what to do. Like good god,
24:56
Speaker 2: I know. Oh.
24:58
Speaker 1: Now, The La County co ruled the death of Britney
25:01
Speaker 1: Murphy as accidental. Ultimately, they believe that a lethal combination
25:06
Speaker 1: of pneumonia, which she possibly caught from the staff infection
25:10
Speaker 1: her family contracted from the trip, an iron deficiency, and
25:15
Speaker 1: multiple drug intoxication claimed her life.
25:19
Speaker 2: Oh jeez.
25:21
Speaker 1: Simon, however, said she instead died of heartbreak due to
25:27
Speaker 1: her mistreatment in Hollywood.
25:29
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
25:32
Speaker 1: Oh okay, And I'm going to tell you right now,
25:37
Speaker 1: I one hundred percent agree with Simon. With Simon, that's
25:42
Speaker 1: what I believe happened. And I'm going to tell you
25:45
Speaker 1: everything and why I believe that's what happened. Okay. Yeah,
25:51
Speaker 1: Now Britney's death isn't the end of the story, though,
25:54
Speaker 1: because only five short months later, Simon two died under
25:58
Speaker 1: eerily similar counstances. He was found unconscious in the same
26:03
Speaker 1: Hollywood Hills home where Brittany had died, and emergency responders
26:08
Speaker 1: were unable to revive him. His death was reportedly caused
26:12
Speaker 1: by pneumonia and anemia as well. In November twenty thirteen,
26:17
Speaker 1: an independent inquiry was launched by Brittany Murphy's father, Angelo
26:20
Speaker 1: Bertoli into her death. A second toxicology report was done,
26:25
Speaker 1: and this report, which analyzed by a forensic pathologist, found
26:29
Speaker 1: traces of different heavy metals in Brittany's blood system, which
26:33
Speaker 1: led her father to believe that she was actually poisoned. Quote,
26:38
Speaker 1: I have a feeling there was definitely a murder situation here.
26:43
Speaker 1: So he believes someone poisoned her and someone killed her.
26:49
Speaker 1: Now these medals, specifically, I'm probably going to pronounce this
26:52
Speaker 1: first one wrong. I'm going going to try adamony and
26:55
Speaker 1: bury him. Found in the new report are the possible
27:01
Speaker 1: results of what he says poisoning, but they're probably from
27:07
Speaker 1: hair dye.
27:08
Speaker 2: Most likely from hair dye.
27:11
Speaker 1: Yeah, frequently dyed her hair, especially because you know, Hollywood's
27:15
Speaker 1: like constantly talking about her opinion or her appearance. Sorry,
27:18
Speaker 1: it's throwing their opinion out there. But Brittany also the
27:22
Speaker 1: place that she passed away, in the bathroom was her
27:24
Speaker 1: favorite place. She often spent hours reading magazines in there,
27:28
Speaker 1: trying to new makeup looks, doing her hair, dyeing her hair,
27:31
Speaker 1: just chilling out, you know, doing her thing just in
27:35
Speaker 1: front of the mirror.
27:36
Speaker 2: Okay, oh that, Oh my gosh, this okay, I don't know.
27:41
Speaker 2: This case is like breaking my fucking heart right now.
27:43
Speaker 1: Holy shit, it's it is heartbreaking. So these chemical compounds
27:51
Speaker 1: that dye are used to dye your hair, right, these
27:55
Speaker 1: metals may have leached into her system. It's speculated that
27:58
Speaker 1: they may be present inner system due to this, and
28:01
Speaker 1: even whether or not they played a role in her death,
28:04
Speaker 1: even if it wasn't from hair dye, even if they're
28:06
Speaker 1: in her system in a suspicious manner, it's not enough
28:10
Speaker 1: to kill her.
28:12
Speaker 2: It's not okay. So that though that what is in
28:16
Speaker 2: her system from the potential hair dye or poison, like
28:19
Speaker 2: her dad said, wouldn't have been enough correct to kill her. Okay.
28:23
Speaker 1: Correct, there's trace amounts found in her.
28:25
Speaker 2: System, Okay, okay.
28:26
Speaker 1: Now some argue that it was enough, some argue that
28:29
Speaker 1: it isn't. But the toxicology report it's there, but it's
28:34
Speaker 1: not a cause of death. Let's put it that way.
28:37
Speaker 1: The official report. It's not a cause of death.
28:39
Speaker 2: Okay, okay.
28:41
Speaker 1: Now, there is also suspicion that her death was from
28:44
Speaker 1: toxic mold black mold growing inside her home, and their
28:48
Speaker 1: death was covered up due to a non disclosure agreement
28:50
Speaker 1: between the property developments developers. Sorry, I couldn't find too
28:55
Speaker 1: much on this non disclosure agreement. I mean, hey, it
28:57
Speaker 1: is a non disclosure agreement, right. So it would also
29:00
Speaker 1: explain why her husband, Simon died as well so close
29:04
Speaker 1: with similar symptoms, because if someone is being poisoned like this,
29:08
Speaker 1: you think you'd find the same heavy metals in his system.
29:10
Speaker 1: But as far as I'm aware, I don't think they
29:12
Speaker 1: actually even did that toxicology report or found them. I'm
29:15
Speaker 1: not certain. Well, actually they would have done a toxicology report,
29:18
Speaker 1: because they did find they did a cause of death
29:20
Speaker 1: in the first one, but they didn't specifically look for
29:21
Speaker 1: the metals. As far as I'm aware, but regardless didn't
29:25
Speaker 1: come up in any of my research. So I'm going
29:27
Speaker 1: to assume that those medals were not found in a system.
29:30
Speaker 1: So if it is mold in the home, that would
29:32
Speaker 1: then explain why they both passed away instead of just one. Now,
29:36
Speaker 1: while some professionals and even Brittany's own mother initially claimed
29:39
Speaker 1: that the toxic mold theory was quote absurd, Sharon did
29:43
Speaker 1: change her stance on this eventually in December of twenty eleven,
29:47
Speaker 1: where she claimed that she recently found toxic black mold
29:50
Speaker 1: in the home and she believed that it could have
29:52
Speaker 1: killed her daughter and her son in law. Still, though
29:56
Speaker 1: doctor Lista Schneinen, I think is how you say their
30:00
Speaker 1: name was one of the was the individual who conducted
30:04
Speaker 1: Brittany's autopsy, and she claimed that there was no evidence
30:07
Speaker 1: that mold was found in her respiratory system and there's
30:11
Speaker 1: no reason for mold to be suspect in this at all.
30:14
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, because I'm also thinking like then the mom
30:17
Speaker 2: would have had issues, especially being that she had cancer
30:19
Speaker 2: bingo and her immune system would have been.
30:22
Speaker 1: Like Lolo bingo. That is the biggest question that's brought
30:25
Speaker 1: up in this whole black mold theory. If black mold
30:28
Speaker 1: is in this house, why the fuck did she survive
30:33
Speaker 1: and not the other two, because, yeah, her immune system
30:36
Speaker 1: is going to be compromised for sure. Yeah, so that's
30:40
Speaker 1: a big red flag with that theory as well. And
30:42
Speaker 1: even if black mold was found, if Sharon did find
30:45
Speaker 1: black mold later on, it doesn't seem like it played
30:48
Speaker 1: any part in this because there was nothing found in
30:50
Speaker 1: the respiratory system, which mold that's how it gets you
30:53
Speaker 1: in your respiratory system. They can literally find that today
30:57
Speaker 1: and there was no of it in their system at all,
31:02
Speaker 1: So that was not found. Kind of another one thrown
31:06
Speaker 1: out the window. But yeah, fans meanwhile, have cast suspicion
31:12
Speaker 1: on Sharon, especially after rumor spread that she and Simon
31:18
Speaker 1: shared a bed after Brittany died. So I believe where
31:22
Speaker 1: this theory comes from is that Simon was found in
31:25
Speaker 1: the in Sharon's bed when he died. Now I couldn't
31:30
Speaker 1: find confirmation of if that's where he was found in
31:33
Speaker 1: the bed when he died, but let's just assume that's true.
31:38
Speaker 1: He's sick, Yeah, go lay down in the nearest bed.
31:41
Speaker 2: She could have just been taken care of yeah something,
31:43
Speaker 2: it doesn't necessarily.
31:45
Speaker 1: No, it doesn't mean shit. Yeah, Sharon reportedly had a
31:50
Speaker 1: close relationship with him and everything. Of course it's her
31:52
Speaker 1: son in law, right, But she just was like, no,
31:57
Speaker 1: that's not a thing, Like we did not share a bed.
32:00
Speaker 1: What are you talking about? And she's actually like quite
32:02
Speaker 1: offended with this theory, which it is just a claim,
32:06
Speaker 1: a rumor. I totally understand. That's something to definitely be
32:09
Speaker 1: offended by, for sure.
32:10
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, and the media and everyone has already
32:13
Speaker 2: painted like Simon in such a bad light, right.
32:16
Speaker 1: Exactly, and now on his deathbed too. Yeah. So there
32:20
Speaker 1: is also this bizarre conspiracy theory that Brittany was targeted
32:24
Speaker 1: by the government due to her friendship with a Hollywood
32:27
Speaker 1: filmmaker and whistleblower. Now, this whistleblower person is a person
32:30
Speaker 1: by the name of Julia Davis, who was a former
32:32
Speaker 1: Department of Homeland Security employee, And Julia was a person
32:37
Speaker 1: that exposed security flaws within the US Customs and Border Protection,
32:41
Speaker 1: claiming that several individuals from countries and terrorist links were
32:45
Speaker 1: actually allowed entry into the States. Now, this theory is
32:48
Speaker 1: supported by Simon allegedly becoming paranoid in the months leading
32:52
Speaker 1: up to Brittany's death, According to an excerpt from a
32:55
Speaker 1: book written by Brittany's longtime friend. In the book called
32:59
Speaker 1: The Hollywood Reporter, Simon believed that two of them, both
33:04
Speaker 1: him and Brittany, were being watched, and he actually installed
33:07
Speaker 1: fifty six cameras across their property. Simon also reportedly installed
33:12
Speaker 1: a scrambling device to prevent their phone conversations from being wiretapped.
33:17
Speaker 2: Hm. Yeah, Okay, that one doesn't really make a lot
33:23
Speaker 2: of sense to me. I'm not gonna lie. I don't know.
33:25
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm just like not following it.
33:29
Speaker 1: Basically, there was a government employee who was targeted by
33:34
Speaker 1: the government because she kind of like spoke out against
33:37
Speaker 1: the government, and Brittany's friends with them, so they believe
33:41
Speaker 1: that the government targeted Brittany from maybe knowing things or
33:45
Speaker 1: maybe supporting her or commit for whatever reason, having ties
33:47
Speaker 1: with this whistleblower person. Okay, and the government is the
33:50
Speaker 1: one who actually quote murdered Brittany.
33:53
Speaker 2: Hmm okay. I mean, the government can be shady sometimes,
33:58
Speaker 2: But I don't know if I I super I'm on
34:02
Speaker 2: board with that one.
34:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. Now, the final thing I really do
34:08
Speaker 1: want to talk about is Simon and Sharon initially did
34:14
Speaker 1: not want Brittany to get an autopsy, Oh, which is
34:18
Speaker 1: a big red flag it is, actually, yeah, but the
34:21
Speaker 1: autopsy was of course done. An autopsy had to happen.
34:25
Speaker 1: But there are interviews done with both Sharon and Simon,
34:27
Speaker 1: and they're even on an interview together, the talking about
34:30
Speaker 1: like Brittany just fucking died. Why would we want our daughter,
34:35
Speaker 1: our our wife to be chopped up? And Simon's even
34:39
Speaker 1: just like she's so beautiful, like everything about her, Like
34:44
Speaker 1: she's beautiful. Why do I want her to go from
34:46
Speaker 1: beautiful in death to just disfigured and go under knife
34:50
Speaker 1: in this fucking lap. Totally makes sense. I get it.
34:53
Speaker 1: And this was like the same day when she died,
34:56
Speaker 1: Like when they're like taking her body away that like
34:58
Speaker 1: we're going to do an autopsy. Of course, your reactions
35:00
Speaker 1: you'd be like what are you talking about? Like no,
35:02
Speaker 1: don't fucking touch her.
35:03
Speaker 2: Right yeah, but also like they could be doing trying
35:07
Speaker 2: to wanting to protect her privacy, right like they were.
35:10
Speaker 2: They seemed like they were they were people that were
35:12
Speaker 2: sort of wanting their privacy and not getting that at all. Yeah,
35:15
Speaker 2: And they could have been technically hiding something if if say,
35:18
Speaker 2: she was like using drugs or something, right, they didn't
35:21
Speaker 2: want that to be found out.
35:23
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm. So yeah, definitely, it doesn't.
35:26
Speaker 2: I it does seem like a red flag, but it
35:29
Speaker 2: maybe doesn't necessarily a red flag for reasons. People think, yeah, it's.
35:34
Speaker 1: A red flag, but there are answers to why someone
35:37
Speaker 1: would want to not have it done and not be
35:40
Speaker 1: a red flag. Yeah, so it's it's questionable. So another
35:46
Speaker 1: thing here is that a lot of people think Sharon
35:49
Speaker 1: was responsible. It could have been motivated by money. After all,
35:53
Speaker 1: Brittany was taking care of her and recently she'd been
35:56
Speaker 1: not making as much money and, according to rumors, had
35:58
Speaker 1: a drug problem. Maybe she was thinking of stopping Hollywood altogether.
36:03
Speaker 1: Whatever the case, potentially the theory lies that Sharon maybe
36:07
Speaker 1: didn't want her daughter to not have the money anymore,
36:11
Speaker 1: didn't want her to spend it all, and she wanted
36:14
Speaker 1: it for herself. Now regarding sharing the bed with Simon,
36:20
Speaker 1: I mentioned she completely denied those allegations, but if that
36:24
Speaker 1: is true, this would lend theory to them sharing a
36:29
Speaker 1: bed and taking care of her, which is kind of
36:32
Speaker 1: where this hall plays in being like, hey, they killed
36:35
Speaker 1: Britney because they had a relationship, they wanted the money,
36:38
Speaker 1: but then why did Simon die? I don't know. It's
36:42
Speaker 1: these theories get so convoluted and there's nothing to support
36:44
Speaker 1: any of them basically.
36:46
Speaker 2: Well, and like the track record of the mom, she'd
36:49
Speaker 2: been involved in Britney's life and seemingly supportive for like some.
36:52
Speaker 1: Time exactly exactly.
36:55
Speaker 2: But I mean lot you do hear stories about that though,
36:57
Speaker 2: of parents turning or or not being like supportive in
37:02
Speaker 2: the right ways necessarily right, So yeah, hm, that's really too.
37:06
Speaker 1: Bad all in. Although there's there's no official documentation or
37:10
Speaker 1: solid evidence to support any of these claims or theories
37:14
Speaker 1: that we've talked about. I dug as much as I could,
37:17
Speaker 1: I couldn't find anything. The reality was that Britney was
37:20
Speaker 1: struggling both mentally and physically with her health. Allegedly, she
37:25
Speaker 1: also suffered from heart murmurs, which Sharon and Simon claimed
37:30
Speaker 1: would have made it possible for her to consume or
37:33
Speaker 1: sorry impossible for her to consume any illegal substances without
37:36
Speaker 1: endangering herself. So she has this medical condition where she
37:40
Speaker 1: just does not do drugs simply because it's it will
37:43
Speaker 1: conflict with her body, right, Yeah, but that didn't stop
37:46
Speaker 1: her from taking prescriptions.
37:48
Speaker 3: Though.
37:48
Speaker 1: Prescriptions, you know, they're easily available there. They can be
37:53
Speaker 1: done by doctors saying, yeah, you go to a heart murmur,
37:55
Speaker 1: here's a prescription whatever for whatever reason. Maybe it's I
37:58
Speaker 1: mean anemia, maybe it is a ammonia or sorry, pneumonia.
38:02
Speaker 1: Maybe it's for heart murmur, maybe it's for stress, maybe
38:04
Speaker 1: it's for depression. Regardless, here's a serial box full of
38:08
Speaker 1: pills sort of situation. And on the day of Britney
38:11
Speaker 1: Murphy's death, she had reportedly taken a cocktail, if you will,
38:16
Speaker 1: of drugs, including the antibiotic backsin migrain pills, cough medicine,
38:23
Speaker 1: the antidepressant prozac, a beta blocker that she got from
38:26
Speaker 1: her husband, and a few other over the counter meds
38:30
Speaker 1: for period cramps and nasal discomfort.
38:33
Speaker 2: Oh the poor thing. Holy shit.
38:37
Speaker 1: Yeah. As such, her death was ultimately ruled as an accident.
38:41
Speaker 1: The coroner did acknowledge all the drugs in her system
38:44
Speaker 1: and the combination with her weekend physical state, and it
38:48
Speaker 1: all probably had an adverse effect on her. Britney's Murphy death,
38:52
Speaker 1: though sudden as it may have been appeared to be
38:56
Speaker 1: a culmination of the deteriorating mental and physical health that
39:00
Speaker 1: she had. I did a lot of digging on this case,
39:04
Speaker 1: and I thought I was going to find some pretty
39:05
Speaker 1: wild claims, which I did, But I also thought I
39:08
Speaker 1: was going to find some evidence to some some somewhat
39:12
Speaker 1: back it up. That's just not the case. The mold,
39:17
Speaker 1: even if it was present in the home. You know,
39:18
Speaker 1: it might cause pneumonia, but it's very rare to cause aemonia,
39:23
Speaker 1: and it was not found in a respiratory system during
39:25
Speaker 1: her autopsy. Her autopsy, the metals found in her system
39:29
Speaker 1: heavy metals. They can be explained by her frequent use
39:31
Speaker 1: of hair dye. And even still, even if we don't
39:35
Speaker 1: explain it by that, it wasn't substantial enough to cause
39:38
Speaker 1: a death. Did Simon kill her? I don't think so,
39:41
Speaker 1: because he died too. Did Sharon kill her? Well, if
39:44
Speaker 1: she did, she did a damn good job, because I
39:46
Speaker 1: could not find a single legitimate piece of evidence against her.
39:51
Speaker 1: It's not like she crammed these pills down Britney's throat.
39:54
Speaker 1: They are prescribed to her. For years, I thought Britney
39:59
Speaker 1: Murphy's death was suspicious, But after all the research I did,
40:03
Speaker 1: I am one hundred percent confident in my theory that
40:05
Speaker 1: she was in fact murdered. Murdered by the pressure of
40:09
Speaker 1: Hollywood to be perfect and to live up to the
40:12
Speaker 1: A list status that she quickly obtained. She was overwhelmed,
40:17
Speaker 1: she needed help, but instead everyone turned their back.
40:22
Speaker 2: Oh god, wow, I can literally just solve right now.
40:30
Speaker 2: This comes at such an interesting time too, because I
40:33
Speaker 2: recently came across this reel and it was from probably
40:37
Speaker 2: like around this time, about how like people treated Hollywood
40:41
Speaker 2: stars and stuff, and like felt like they were entitled
40:43
Speaker 2: to like comment on their appearance. And it was women
40:47
Speaker 2: and their appearance and their their size and like, you know,
40:51
Speaker 2: you need to lose ten pounds, and just like it
40:54
Speaker 2: was just this clip of so many things where like
40:58
Speaker 2: people just they didn't have the right to comment on
41:01
Speaker 2: this sort of thing. Yeah, and we've and I mean,
41:03
Speaker 2: I'm sure it happened to men too. Like I'm not
41:05
Speaker 2: just saying it was only a women thing, but I
41:06
Speaker 2: think it might have been a bit worse for women.
41:09
Speaker 2: There was a bit more higher expectation.
41:11
Speaker 1: There's an industry for that against women because cosmetics, fashion all, Yeah,
41:15
Speaker 1: so yeah, I get you, and I.
41:17
Speaker 2: Mean, I'm sure it's still happening to a degree, but
41:20
Speaker 2: like people have been like speaking more out about it
41:23
Speaker 2: and stuff, and like even that's just how the generation
41:27
Speaker 2: that I was raised into and it just has like
41:30
Speaker 2: affected so many people that it's just like not okay,
41:34
Speaker 2: Like this is just not okay.
41:36
Speaker 1: I agree, and I will go out and I'm going
41:39
Speaker 1: to be in a brave moment here. We've been on
41:41
Speaker 1: the end of that because of our podcast. Yeah, people
41:44
Speaker 1: have commented on our voices on how we talk, how
41:47
Speaker 1: fast we talk, on interrupting each other, on how we
41:49
Speaker 1: don't work at all. It's like we've been married for
41:53
Speaker 1: longer than you've probably been alive. Some of you people commenting,
41:56
Speaker 1: we've been together since two thousand and six. I think
42:00
Speaker 1: we've got this worked out, but people still seem to
42:05
Speaker 1: want to comment.
42:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, okay, So back then in this kind
42:08
Speaker 2: of Brittany Murphy era that people would say it to
42:12
Speaker 2: their faces, right, it seems more so, And now it's
42:15
Speaker 2: like people are saying it over the internet. So maybe
42:18
Speaker 2: it's like I think it's turned, it's changed, but it
42:21
Speaker 2: could be just as bad in some instances.
42:23
Speaker 1: I think it's just as bad. Yeah, I think, if not,
42:27
Speaker 1: it's worse because it's more accessible to make these comments
42:30
Speaker 1: directly to the person, because before it would be like, say,
42:34
Speaker 1: you're publicist or whoever as a Hollywood star and you're
42:40
Speaker 1: hearing these rumors. Well, people are saying this about you,
42:43
Speaker 1: and that publicist or agent or whatever can also like,
42:46
Speaker 1: you know, like sweep some comments under the rug. You
42:50
Speaker 1: can't sweep it under the rug when your Instagram is
42:53
Speaker 1: full of it, when you've got the comments on your
42:55
Speaker 1: reviews that are just benign, or you get the messages,
42:59
Speaker 1: the hate email, all those sort of things.
43:02
Speaker 2: Maybe slightly easier to ignore now because if it's not
43:05
Speaker 2: necessarily being said to your face but not saying that,
43:08
Speaker 2: it is anyway easier or better. Right, Yeah, anything, but no, it's.
43:12
Speaker 1: It's changed, but it's still present. It's easier too. Fine.
43:15
Speaker 1: But yeah, you're right, it's easier to ignore as well. Yeah,
43:18
Speaker 1: because you can just turn your comments off. You can
43:21
Speaker 1: just block someone.
43:23
Speaker 2: Huh wow, this is just like devastating.
43:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I wholeheartedly believe that Simon is right. Brittany
43:29
Speaker 1: died of a died of heartbreak. Yeah, but that doesn't
43:35
Speaker 1: explain why he died. Yeah, now he did get sick,
43:42
Speaker 1: mind you, he did have that infection after the trip.
43:46
Speaker 1: It's potential that she got it too and mixed with
43:50
Speaker 1: the drugs. Maybe he was taking a bunch of drugs too.
43:52
Speaker 3: Well.
43:52
Speaker 2: He technically could have died of heartbreak too, of losing her.
43:55
Speaker 1: He could have, right, very well could have. So I
43:59
Speaker 1: don't know.
44:00
Speaker 2: Good God, I mean, Hollywood takes a lot of lives
44:02
Speaker 2: though often cases like like it's suicide and stuff too, right,
44:06
Speaker 2: There's many people that have done that sort of thing.
44:08
Speaker 1: Yeah, Chester Bennington for example, Robin Williams another example, two
44:13
Speaker 1: of like like Robin Williams was like the happiest man
44:16
Speaker 1: on Earth? Yeah, or what in reality?
44:20
Speaker 2: What's his name? I'm losing his name? The one he
44:22
Speaker 2: played like the Joker, didn't.
44:23
Speaker 1: He Keith Ledger?
44:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah he was, like yeah, he was a phenomenal joker.
44:29
Speaker 1: Yeah he was. I honestly, I just rewatched Knight's Tale
44:32
Speaker 1: the other day when you were off on a photo shoot.
44:34
Speaker 1: Love Heath Ledger, and I love that movie. Love his movies. Yeah,
44:38
Speaker 1: but yeah, it's it's a lot for a person to
44:42
Speaker 1: take m h and I do not think there is
44:46
Speaker 1: suspicion in Brittany's death. I think we all know exactly
44:49
Speaker 1: what happened to her, and no one just wants to
44:53
Speaker 1: admit it. They just want to point to something else
44:55
Speaker 1: and they want to do exactly what killed her, speculate, Yeah, rumors,
45:02
Speaker 1: that's my opinion.
45:04
Speaker 2: Huh, that's tough. I don't know. That's a tough one,
45:09
Speaker 2: like I get, I I don't know, But I also
45:11
Speaker 2: the whole Simon dying thing too was But yeah, there
45:16
Speaker 2: was something going on there. Their lifestyle they needed to change, right,
45:20
Speaker 2: and they weren't able to for many reasons. Huh. I
45:26
Speaker 2: don't know. That's hard, But yeah, I can't see it
45:29
Speaker 2: being the mom.
45:31
Speaker 1: I don't think it's the mom either. There's no proof
45:33
Speaker 1: of it, there's nothing, there's only speculation.
45:36
Speaker 2: Gosh, and like for her to be like a support
45:39
Speaker 2: sace being she was a supportive parent and being blamed
45:42
Speaker 2: of all the shit afterwards, it's just like.
45:45
Speaker 1: Horrid, I know. Huh. I agree. So yeah, yeah, I
45:52
Speaker 1: thought I was going to come into this thinking that
45:54
Speaker 1: there's some sort of conspiracy theory that's going to really
46:00
Speaker 1: take me. None of it took me. None of it
46:03
Speaker 1: has any substantial anything to back it up. There's a
46:07
Speaker 1: couple more things we could talk about, Like there was
46:09
Speaker 1: an alleged with the mold in the home. There was
46:13
Speaker 1: someone who was there and they found that there was
46:15
Speaker 1: an inspection going on the home and like a black
46:17
Speaker 1: mold was being found, but then the report was never released.
46:20
Speaker 1: Things like that, Say that is the case, Say there
46:23
Speaker 1: was because Sharon did claim, yeah, there's black mold. So
46:26
Speaker 1: say that there was a big investigation of the house,
46:28
Speaker 1: there was contractors and they found a shit ton of
46:31
Speaker 1: black mold. Cool, it's still not in her autopsy report. Yeah,
46:36
Speaker 1: they would have found that shit. Yeah, so even if
46:40
Speaker 1: it was there within the walls hiding.
46:43
Speaker 2: So I do think though, sometimes things are hidden too,
46:47
Speaker 2: right when people are in like so, I mean there
46:50
Speaker 2: could be things that are potentially hidden a bit.
46:52
Speaker 1: Oh of course.
46:53
Speaker 2: But also her like so I struggle with being an
46:56
Speaker 2: e mcget times too, and so I like that is
47:01
Speaker 2: it's so terrible, like on your body, and then if
47:06
Speaker 2: you have other health issues too, like you're not going
47:08
Speaker 2: to be able to heal properly and stuff. And so
47:10
Speaker 2: I can understand her taking all this medication. She's just
47:14
Speaker 2: wanting to feel better, right, But yeah, gosh.
47:18
Speaker 1: Okay, well let's end that there. We had a bit
47:21
Speaker 1: of a discussion there. I'm curious what you guys think,
47:23
Speaker 1: because this is a very widely speculated case. Let us know.
47:27
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47:31
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47:35
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47:36
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47:38
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47:41
Speaker 1: we have an episode coming out on Friday as well. Yeah,
47:44
Speaker 1: we appreciate you being here.
47:46
Speaker 2: Well done on that. That would have been a tough
47:48
Speaker 2: one to research it iss I would say.
47:50
Speaker 1: That that's why I was so busy yesterday researching and
47:54
Speaker 1: didn't record yesterday.
47:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, like that's real tough. Yeah, but you did a
47:58
Speaker 2: good job.
47:59
Speaker 1: Thank you. Appreciate that.
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Speaker 2: So until Friday.
48:02
Speaker 1: Until Friday, stay wicked.