The mysterious death of Brittany Murphy A Hollywood tragedy
On a quiet morning just five days before Christmas 2009, Brittany Murphy put on her favourite pink bathrobe, gave her husband, Simon Monjack, a kiss and went into the bathroom.
Although the 32-year-old actress had been suffering from laryngitis and flu-like symptoms for several weeks, no-one close to her apparently understood just how much danger she was in. At 8am, Murphy’s mother Sharon, who was living with them, walked in and found her daughter unresponsive on the bathroom floor. She called 911 while screaming, “Brittany, please come back.” Monjack, 40, put her in a cold shower and then performed CPR. But it was too late. The star was rushed to LA’s Cedars-Sinai Hospital and shortly after pronounced dead.
“She was manipulated emotionally by her husband”
DIRECTOR MERKIN, ON MURPHY
Almost 12 years later, mysteries still linger surrounding Murphy’s shocking death – and Monjack’s eerily similar demise just five months afterward. The Atlanta-born actress, who rose to fame at just 18 in the hit 1995 comedy, charmed Hollywood with her bubbly personality. “She was free-spirited, whimsical and full of laughter,” says Taryn Manning, 42, who starred with her in 2002’s . But after Murphy met and married Monjack in 2007, those close to the star became increasingly worried about her erratic behaviour and dramatic weight loss as the London-born businessman took control of her life and career.
