File photo of Anna Nicole Smith leaving the Supreme Court in Washington DC. Anna was in court in her bid to inherit her late husband's fortune.
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London, Feb 11: Barely two-days before she was found dead in her hotel suite, Anna Nicole Smith told a pal during a distraught phone call that she could no longer “go on”.
The pal revealed that the former Playboy pinup had been in a “terrible state” when she rang her friend, and was distraught.
"Anna was in a terrible state. She said, ‘I've given up—I can't go on,'" the News of the World quoted the friend, as saying.
The friend revealed that what made the call even more ominous was that Smith “seemed different”.
"You always knew with Anna that life was never simple. But this time she seemed different. And I was really afraid for her," the pal said.
"I kept saying, ‘Anna, babe, you are not going to do anything stupid. Anna, please be careful.'
"She said, ‘I will, honey, I will'. But I was seriously worried she didn't mean it this time. She'd been self-destructing for years with all the drugs she was taking. She wanted to die."
Smith’s pal also revealed that the model was on anti-depressants Xanax and Prozac plus slimming pills and strong pain-killers.
"She took the anti-depressants just so she could get up in a morning and she didn't always take them according to the directions. She'd just slug a couple down if she was getting anxious," the pal said.
"And she had a lot to be anxious about. Things had really started to pile down on top of her and physically her body had begun to act strangely. She'd complained of flushes and said her heart was all over the place—racing and then slowing.
"The doctors told her to stop taking the drugs to see if that stabilised things. She didn't though. She couldn't cope without them.
"In the last few weeks she'd become very withdrawn and quiet—almost childlike. She told me time and again that even though she had a new-born baby she had nothing to live for.
"She kept saying, ‘What is there for me? What is the point of going on?' I remember saying, ‘Come on—what about your baby? She needs you more than ever.' Anna said, ‘I know, I know. But it's hard'.
"I don't know if Anna committed suicide, but I do know that she wanted to die. I think maybe her body just said, ‘I've had enough'" the friend revealed.
Smith’s body is currently being kept at the Broward County Medical Examiner's Office. (ANI)
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I am talking back because I am furious at the media in its attempts to 'tear apart' a life gone to the hereafter. What gives you the right? What gives you the right?
The amount of 'garbage' being published about Anna Nicole Smith just shows what kind of a demoralized country we live in, with everyone spouting their opinions left and right including the media-the biggest proponent of garbage I hear on an everyday basis (according to our sources...). What happened to professional behavior with the likes of Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings, and Walter Cronkite? You slimy reporters have formed a club, if you will, of nothing but garbage-laden crap that you feel appeals to us, the ones who listen. I, for one, abhor your behavior...
With respect to Anna Nicole, each time I put the TV on some or the other newscaster is playing doctor with reference to her death, inferring whatever mumbo jumbo they feel they know about medicine, stating mostly altered facts about her with respect to her medical death. Were you there? Do you know? Heck no, so stop it. You have total disregard for her name and reputation. Your opinion of her life, pre and post Hollywood, is just that-your opinion. Did I ask to be bombarded with your opinion? Why do you castrate anyone who makes a front page story? Give me one good reason, and please do NOT tell me the American people want to know. You have no intelligent, carefully screened reason, I am sure.
You need, all of you supposed newscasters, and I use that term loosely, to go back to your formative days, and reinvent yourselves to include the term professional and the reason why you became a reporter. Is it for the right reasons or just to work on a story? Just the word story infuriates me because someone's passing is not just a story; it is a life ceased. For Pete's sake, get a grip and show some humanity, will you? Someone, many people, are grieving her loss. She was nothing to you but a headline; yet, to Mr. Howard K. Stern, her family, and her precious baby, she was a loved one. Shame on you, all of you.
My praise to the "ethical" doctor, Dr. Joshua Perper, who refutes any crazed, media attention on her probable cause of death. He is true to his profession, his calling to become a physician, and will do his absolute best to produce definitive evidence regarding the method of her demise. Just listening to his articulated speech, I know he will use all the tools available to him to find the whys and wherefores of a young life now gone. He is a true professional. Don't think for one minute that as a medical professional you do not become emotionally involved. It is difficult to remain aloof and separate, even though it is your job. There are some people whom you just cannot help but care for...it is just part of the job. I know as a medical professional myself.
I must add, also, last night on Fox News, Kimberly Guilfoyle, news reporter, pushed Dr. Perper as well as Dr. Wecht to no avail attempting to "put words into Dr. Perper's mouth." She did not succeed for one minute because he exhibited professional behavior, not she, as well as informing her-if you think I will tell you, I won't. Her continual rant on what mix, what combination of drugs precipitated her demise made me ill. She should be disciplined, as well as others, for their lack of sensitivity. Shame on you, reporter. You will have your story one day, though, and I hope one of your so-called friends in the business treats you or yours with respect. (Not one reporter has honed in on the real reason of Anna's death because you don't have one and won't until the medical doctors release their reports and findings. All the rest of the story, or parts thereof, are disrespectful).
I am disheartened to see and hear that no one on the opposition, including that bumbling idiot Larry Butthead, and his attorney do not respect her in death either. How, in the death of someone he supposedly loved, could he speak out and have his attorney to do what she did-appear in court to ask for the sample of the MOTHER's DNA? I mean, really. Where is the proof in his assumption that he is the father? There is none. Period, Mr. B. Period. What attempts these lawyers go to in our justice system. They clearly have emotionless spirits with their eyes only on the prize-their win. For them what else is it about?
(I did hear Ms. Opri state last night on television that "the baby's interest is the most important thing in this case now, that someone must care for her. I guess, in looking back, she was acting human...)
Has anyone out there lost a child, an adult child, a baby? Can anyone come to grips with what it must be like-what it feels like inside your world, your heart? If you can answer yes to that question as can I, then you are qualified to understand, partly, what Anna Nicole was going through. The hurt, the pain, the anger, the one question, "why not me" never goes away. You miss your child, who is never supposed to die before you, every minute of every day. It is a tragedy like no other on this earth. He/she is a part of you and part of you is missing; there is a hole, a deep gap in your heart and your world. Nothing will ever take the place of it. Never. And, if you don't know what it feels like, then don't comment on it.
In order to make it through, to see that life may go on afterward, you need a strong sense of self and a deep, abiding faith, which is the only reason I made it through. I did not have the pressures that Anna Nicole may have had, because I don't know what they were. I can only imagine that being a celebrity, everyone trying their best to hurt you, the media's unending, crazy attention, the mere nuisances of everyday life, the lonliness of being without your child, and the list goes on and on and on.
I will turn the TV off now until I read in the newspaper, which is also biased and not supposed to be, that the medical reports have been released. In the meantime, I will grieve for the loss of the mother, Anna Nicole Smith, for she left her baby daughter behind who must grow up without her. That is so, so, sad. I cannot imagine Mr. Stern's grief-the loss of Daniel, the birth of the baby, and now the loss of his partner/wife, Anna Nicole. May God be with him in the days and weeks ahead as he tries to go on. It is one of the saddest accounts of life I have read about in a long, long time, with the exception of mine. But, then, I am not a celebrity.
Sharon Anne, 10 Feb 2007
Excuse me!!!
I agree with Sharon Anne that the media haunted Anna, BUT!!! She wanted fame and fortune and that's what happens when you come out in public and expose yourself the way she did. If she did not want attention, she should have stayed in her little home town in the first place. She clearly wanted to flash her life out at everybody and had fun doing it.
How can you not pay attention to a hot sexy young woman like she was when she comes out in public and marries a man who is just about to check out of this world? I am not happy about her death, I would never wish death on anybody.......yet, if I feel sorry for her, I feel even more sorry for her kids. They were the real victims here!!!!!! They did not ask for all of this turmoil and hellish life. I always said to myself that I felt sorry for Daniel, because I just knew that that poor kid would some day grow up to be very unhappy, and look what happened! He suffered from depression and ended up dead.
When her daughter was born I couldn't help feeling sorry for that little baby girl. I knew that Anna wouldn't care for her properly; and again, look what happened!!! Am I psychic?? Noooo!!!!!!!! It's just that anyone with a brain would understand that this woman had other priorities in her life besides her children. I am a mother, and that's why my heart went out to those kids.
The truth of the matter is that Nicole had a brain, but she chose not to use it properly when it came time to sort out her priorities, and chose to live her life in a very superficial way. The proof is in the tragic consequences, and if it does turn out that she did kill herself, it just brakes my heart how on top of it all she could leave a baby girl in this world knowing that life can be so hard. Not to mention the fact that she herself said "she didn't have anything to live for".
I do not like to judge people, but I don't like to act stupid and go on and on with political correctness and not wanting to speak out the truth about how so many parents out there neglect their kids for fame, fortune, and whatever they may think it's more important. This should not be!!!!
Stacey Uzzell, 11 Feb 2007
I really wish that everyone would just let her rest in peace! Also i feel that her baby girl should be left with Mr. Stern he is the man she wanted as the father of the little girl . That is why he is named the father on the birth records.
I also feel her Mother should go back where she came from and leave them alone. It is really sad that she wants to be a mother after she has passed away. This is only my opinion and I am sure it dose not matter much.
I also feel that Anna took enough crap off of people, press and jerks her whole life ...and up until recently did it with her head held high, but as always the press and heartless people have to tear people apart....just like they did so many others. There is a world full of cold hearted people out there and God is watching it ALL.
Shannon Kay, 17 Feb 2007
Any person aware of Anna Nicole knows how unbalanced her life was. We also know how very strong her love for her son, Daniel, was -- and that his loss would be a mountain she could never climb with her historical state of minds.
The final Medical Examiner's report is out....Anna died of a bad MIX of drugs....ALL within therapeutic levels. Although a bunch of drugs were found in her hotel room, only a few of those were found in her system--and again, in therapeutic levels. The media keeps repeating Howard's report that Anna couldn't get out of bed that morning and had to be helped to the bathroom. Hey guys, guess what....I wish I had help every morning getting up and out of bed and to the bathroom. How many of us all too often say "God, I can't get out of bed" and we waddle to the bathroom.
Anna Nicole called the shots. Is the media the only one who does not know that?
There was no plot to kill Daniel, then kill Anna. There was no one opening Anna's mouth and forcing drugs down her throat and those who say they witnessed that are a bunch of fabricators with an invalid mission.
The media needs to keep this story hot---because, like in her life, Anna was hot! In her death, she is still a good story but only a 'good' story---not a story hot enough for the media to thrive on..so they MAKE it hot!
Those approaching the front line to slander those who loved Anna are on a self made mission, taking advantage of the woman they purport to have cared about----but not enough to sway to get help. Their guilt surpasses their cheap need to blame another for their own emotional resolutions. Blame another and free yourself.
I think it would be in the best interest of the world if we let Anna rest in peace with her son she loved so much----and the nonsense that Howard is responsible for anyone's death be laid to rest as well. Let the subject of Dannielynn be resolved in the best interest of Dannielynn and let the media find a new story to build and fabricate. Hey, did you hear that Bill & Hillary and George and Laura are swingers? Build on that nonsense, Mr. Media.
Karilynn, Hawaii, 01 Apr 2007