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Brittany murphy simon monjack house1/9/2024 ![]() ![]() The only child of a single mother, Murphy dreamed of Hollywood success, agonized over fitting in and was an open book of emotion amid myriad pressures over how to be a star in the late 90s.Īt times, the series does seem interested in re-evaluating or seriously considering the pressures that precipitated Murphy’s professional struggles, exacerbated her health conditions and made her vulnerable to an emotionally abusive and controlling husband. All attest to a bubbly, ambitious, preternaturally kind and talented performer, as evidenced by old footage from her early theater days in New Jersey. There are glimpses of a different, more considerate Murphy series – Hill managed to recruit some of Murphy’s childhood friends to participate, as well as co-stars such as Taryn Manning, and Amy Heckerling, the director of her breakout performance as a made-over ugly duckling in 1995’s Clueless. But this series, directed by Cynthia Hill, feels less like a monument to Murphy’s life than an exploitation of her death, the tropes and pitfalls of true crime obsession – another’s pain as a puzzle, hyper-clinical detail, unwarranted skepticism, speculation for speculation’s sake – metastasized into one of the queasiest reconsiderations of a 90s/00s star. ![]() There is certainly space for a film or series to revisit Murphy’s largely undervalued career, her live-wire presence on screen, and the pressures which cornered her into a controlling marriage and, by many accounts, paralyzing anxiety over her career and appearance. Combing through tabloid reports, medical documents and first-hand accounts of people orbiting her death, it purports to explain Murphy’s tragic, untimely demise and, more pertinent to headlines, her abusive, constrictive marriage to Simon Monjack, who died five months after her of pneumonia. Something connecting somebody with it.That dialogue is a ruse for the two hours between these moments, What Happened, Brittany Murphy? takes on the role of amateur sleuth. In all honesty, it would take something like a confession. In order to reopen the case and exhume the bodies, assistant coroner Ed Winter told E! News in 2016, "We would have to have direct evidence. The county coroner's office hasn't ruled out the possibility of reopening its investigation into the deaths of Murphy and Monjack, but pointed out the metal levels in the report could also be attributed to the actress' use of hair dye. That lab found evidence of elevated levels of heavy metal in Murphy's system, suggesting she may have been poisoned by "a third party perpetrator with likely criminal intent," according to the report. The samples were sent to a private lab called the Carlson Company. According to The Wrap, Bertolotti sued the Los Angeles County coroner's office for access to hair samples in order to conduct an independent chemical analysis. Murphy's estranged father, Angelo Bertolotti, began his own private investigation into the death of his daughter in 2013. By the time Murphy arrived at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, it was too late. Monjack said he ran a cold shower over her while Sharon called the police. At approximately 7:30 a.m., the ailing actress supposedly returned to the bathroom she loved so much and collapsed on the floor. Her mother, Sharon, recalled her daughter saying, "Mommy, I can't catch my breath." Rather than taking her to the hospital right away, Sharon offered her daughter tea, reasoning that she looked parched and was "always so dramatic" about illnesses. The morning of her passing, Murphy reportedly went out on a balcony off of the bathroom around 3 a.m. That illness reportedly lingered in her system and transformed into pneumonia, which in combination with her cocktail of medications and her anemia, turned deadly. According to their accounts, Murphy and Monjack returned from the San Juan, Puerto Rico set of The Caller-a film which she refused to complete after discovering it was a horror movie-in late November 2009 because she was suffering from staphylococcus aureus. Murphy's mother and husband discussed the final moments of the actress' life with The Hollywood Reporter in 2011. ![]()
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