
If you’ve got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the .uk entertainment team by emailing us calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we’d love to hear from you. ‘He didn’t want anybody to know I was out there with his son.’īefore she died, Murphy had spoken of her dream to start a family with her husband.īoth episodes of What Happened, Brittany Murphy? is available on HBO Max in the US. ‘The stakes were a lot higher with him being married to Brittany,’ Ragsdale explained. 02:38 On a Sunday morning in December 2009, Brittany Murphy suddenly collapsed in the bathroom of the West Hollywood home she shared with her husband, Simon Monjack. He offered to buy her a house, something she believed was an unspoken way to buy her silence. Monjack finally contacted her again in 2007, right after he became engaged to Murphy. After he ditched her in the late stages of her pregnancy, Ragsdale chose to raise her child Elijah in Paris. Meanwhile, he shared a son with Ragsdale. His first child, a daughter named Jasmise, grew up with her mother in England and he sent funds to help her attend private school. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webīefore she died, Murphy had no idea that her husband had fathered two children earlier in his life. Monjack’s former fiancée Elizabeth Ragsdale stated: ‘Even if he did not kill Brittany Murphy, he allowed her to die because he did not get her to the doctor and get her help.’ It’s suggested that the mix of substance abuse, lack of care for herself and not seeking medical help caused the perfect storm for her shocking death. Multiple people interviewed for the film reported seeing Murphy high and glassy-eyed, alleging that she and Monjack would stay up all night doing downers and then take stimulants in the morning to stave off exhaustion. The Los Angeles County coroner determined that ‘not eating’ enough food was a likely cause of her severe levels of anemia.Įlsewhere it is also argued that her husband seemed to foster a hom environment in which the actress wasn’t getting the medical help she needed. Instead, the investigation attempts to suggest that Murphy’s health had been on a decline ever since she became noticeably thinner in the later years of her career. The documentary has experts explain why the theory doesn’t hold because the different metals weren’t found in the root, meaning they most likely came from her hair dye and products. MaBy Celebitchy Brittany Murphy, Deaths, Simon Monjack Brittany Murphy’s husband has recorded a video for Radar Online in which he first enters the bathroom where his wife died three months ago. The theory grew traction after forensic pathologist Dr Cyril Wecht – who was hired by Murphy’s father Angelo Bertolotti – said 10 potentially toxic heavy metals were present in a hair strand sample. However, in the years that followed many have speculated that she might have been poisoned. "The coroner was aware of Sharon’s hypothesis when he first reviewed the body however he didn’t believe that the mold played a part in Brittany’s death," adds was anemic and regularlu misusing prescription medicationsbefore her death from pneumonia (Picture: Kpa/Zuma/REX)Īs many fans will know, officials declared Clueless star’s death was caused by pneumonia, anaemia and excessive use of prescription medications. Murphy is suing her former lawyers, claiming she was duped by them "into giving up her rights to sue the builders for wrongful death" as part of a "settlement offer for the construction defects back in January." One stipulation of that settlement was that she could not sue them in conjunction with Brittany's death. Sharon Murphy, Brittany's mom, is seeking legal action-but not against the people who built the house. Monjack's death was also attributed topneumonia and anemia. Now Murphy's mother is claiming toxic mold found in the couple's home is what really killed them, reports TMZ.Murphy's cause of death was ruled accidental, and attributed to pneumonia with multiple drug intoxication and iron deficiency anemia. Actress Brittany Murphy's death rocked Hollywood and the headlines in December 2009, and just five months later, her husband Simon Monjack also died suddenly.
