Larry King’s wife attempted suicide by overdosing on prescription drugs

London, June 11 (ANI): Talk show host Larry King’s wife has been revealed to have attempted suicide late last month by overdosing on prescription drugs as she battled depression.

According to TMZ.com, an officer with the Provo, Utah police reported entering Shawn King’s residence on May 2, going to a bedroom where paramedics were treating her and seeing “multiple pill bottles, all of which were empty on the bed”.

The police report noted “scriptures, a purse, other various books” and a letter which appeared to be a note left by the victim.

“It is unknown whose writing this letter was in, however wording on the letter led me to believe that (King) had intentionally taken the quantity of pills,” the Telegraph quoted the officer as writing in the report, which is labelled “attempted suicide”.

The report said labels on the bottles indicated multiple drugs including Ambien, Klonopin and Clonazepam, and many of them were empty.

One witness told police that Shawn King “is always depressed, but she had not mentioned anything that she would want to hurt herself or take her own life”. (ANI)

Brittany Murphy ‘used aliases to buy drugs’

New York, March 20 (ANI): A Los Angeles pharmacist has alleged that late actress Brittany Murphy used aliases to buy drugs.

Eddie Bubar, owner of Eddie”s Pharmacy, claims he has more than 100 prescriptions he filled for Brittany, her husband Simon Monjack and mother Sharon Murphy between January 2008 and August 2009.

The ‘Just Married’ actress bought drugs such as Vicodin, hydrocodone, Klonopin from the pharmacy.

Bubar alleges one of the aliases Murphy used was “Lola Manilow Murphy.”

However, he had cut off the beauty and her family just months before her death, fearing something was wrong.

“We thought there was going to be an accident there,” the New York Post quoted him as telling TMZ.com.

Apparently, another pharmacy has come up with names Murphy used as aliases, which include “Kathelyn Moore” and “Faith Gosselin.”

Meanwhile, Monjack admitted using aliases but claimed the family had themselves stopped going to Eddie”s Pharmacy.

He said: “You know how this town is. We”re the ones who cut Eddie”s Pharmacy off.”

Murphy had been found lying dead in her LA home on Dec. 21 last year.

(ANI)

Anna Nicole Smith’s psychiatrist turns herself in

New York, Mar 17 (ANI): Ex-Playboy centerfold Anna Nicole Smith’s psychiatrist, who is charged with conspiracy for allegedly funneling drugs to the actress, has turned herself in at the Los Angeles Police Department’s Van Nuys station.

Khristine Eroshevich surrendered to police for excessively prescribing drugs to Smith, which led to her 2007 fatal overdose death, according to media reports.

Eroshevich, who was Smith’s next-door neighbor, faces six felony counts. Bail was set at 20,000 dollars, reports The New York Daily News.

As per prosecutors, Eroshevich, Smith’s boyfriend Howard K. Stern, 40, and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, 40, gave Smith thousands of pills in the years before her overdose death.

Smith was 39 when she died in Hollywood, Florida, on Feb. 8, 2007, of an accidental overdose of prescription drugs shortly after the birth of her daughter and death of her son, who also died of a drug overdose.

Eroshevich prescribed “excessive amounts of controlled substances” – including chloral hydrate and Klonopin – to Smith. (ANI)