Forgive us if we don’t believe everything Howard K. Stern says.
But in a recently released statement, the immoral lawyer claims Anna Nicole Smith could have been saved if she’d been hospitalized before her death — but she refused emergency care, fearing a “media frenzy.”
After announcing Smith’s autopsy results on Monday, Broward County Medical Examiner Joshua Perper said Smith had been suffering from a stomach flu, a 105-degree fever and an infection from repeated drug injections.
At the same time, she was using a long list of medications, including the powerful sleeping drug chloral hydrate, methadone, valium, several antidepressant and anti-anxiety drugs, longevity medications, vitamin B12 and growth hormone, the Associated Press reports. The loving mother of Dannielynn died from an accidental drug overdose.
If Smith had sought treatment for her flu, she might have been saved, Perper said, if only because her drug use could have been controlled:
“If she would have gone to the hospital she wouldn’t have died because she wouldn’t have had the opportunity to take the excessive amount of chloral hydrate.”
But according to a statement from lawyers for Stern, she refused emergency care in the days before her death because “she did not want the media frenzy that follows her.” We wish Larry Birkhead could’ve stepped in.