When he had a seizure, his arms and legs flailing on the big four-poster bed, Brittany would rush to his side. For nearly a year, the England native had been having seizures and a month earlier suffered an apparent heart attack. This tiled, peach-colored sanctuary was where she went to get away from the mounting pressures of her life: a house she hated, a city where she no longer wanted to live, a career that was imploding and the constant burden of being a caregiver.Įven though she didn’t feel well herself, Brittany was there to care for her mother, Sharon Murphy, a breast cancer survivor suffering debilitating neuropathy, and her ailing husband of three years, 39-year-old Simon Monjack. 20, 2009, the drama played out in the one room in her Hollywood Hills mansion that had become her refuge: her bathroom. When the final curtain came down for Brittany Murphy on Sunday morning, Dec. We open the file “The Curious Death of Brittany Murphy, and Simon Monjack.” So does her death, and that of her husband. But we’re alleging that all the statistical odds were badly abused by such exceptional events.īrittany’s sweetness haunts us. We’re not alleging, necessarily, foul play. Nothing about the demise of Brittany and Simon quite makes sense. Probably accurate, but who dies in their youth of pneumonia, in the 21st century, in an upscale mansion in L.A.–a city full of doctors and health programs? Who, besides Brittany? Actually, ten months later, so did the widower Simon Monjack, in the same multi-million dollar home, of the same diagnosis as his late wife. She died of complications from lingering pneumonia, the doctors say. She was married to the screenwriter Simon Monjack, and they were thinking of starting a family. Yet Brittany Murphy’s intimates claim she did not abuse drugs, in fact had to be circumspect in her habits due to a heart abnormality. “One more star who abused self and drugs,” the mind goes, “so, sure, another bites the dust. It splashed across the news as Hollywood tragedy does, sensational for the moment, but with the ring of inevitability. On December 20, 2009, Brittany suddenly collapsed and died, only 32 years old. Thin and unhealthy, fatigued, something vacant and haunting about her eyes. But in her last films such as Abandoned, when she played a stressed, betrayed woman caught inside a nightmare of a mystery, she looked just a little too much the part. She had many poignant films behind her, and more than a few in front of her by 2009. She was one of those rare actresses with a sweetness and vulnerability that migrated from the screen to the viewer’s emotions.
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