Carrie Fisher died while caught up in the throes of a serious drug addiction, as insiders first told The National ENQUIRER — with cocaine, heroin and ecstasy found in her system after her sudden death by heart attack! Carrie had “become unresponsive…near the end of a long flight on Dec. 23, 2016,” reported the Los Angeles Coroner’s Office — adding that “urine toxicology on admission to the hospital was positive for cocaine, methadone, ethanol, and opiates.” The official cause of death is listed as “sleep apnea and other undetermined causes.” That includes “multiple drug intake, significance not ascertained…”
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"Carrie was in denial," an insider told The ENQUIRER shortly after her death, "and it killed her." Other sources confirmed that Carrie had gone on a wild booze-and-drug binge while enjoying her new success
as General Leia in the return of the
"Star Wars" saga. Now the autopsy reveals the extent of her drug use!
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Carrie's bile fluid tested "positive for morphine." Her liver tested "positive for methadone." The coroner also estimates that Carrie had done cocaine within 72 hours of her death — and possibly just 12 hours before her flight! The final ruling refuses to "establish the significance" of drugs in her death.
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Carrie also blamed her father, singer
Eddie Fisher, for the bipolar disorder that plagued her life and caused her to spend a career self-medicating with drugs and alcohol. Her daughter, actress
Billie Lourde, had earlier said that she believed Carrie "ultimately died" from her drug addictions.
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The actress and author had a long history of drug abuse, and friends had also told The ENQUIRER that they feared Carrie was
struggling with anorexia while
trying to stay slim for her big-screen comeback. And, in the final tragedy for Carrie's family, her heartbroken mother
Debbie Reynolds passed away just a day after her daughter's death.
"Carrie was in denial," an insider told The ENQUIRER shortly after her death, "and it killed her." Other sources confirmed that Carrie had gone on a wild booze-and-drug binge while enjoying her new success
as General Leia in the return of the
"Star Wars" saga. Now the autopsy reveals the extent of her drug use!
Photo credit: Getty Images
Carrie's bile fluid tested "positive for morphine." Her liver tested "positive for methadone." The coroner also estimates that Carrie had done cocaine within 72 hours of her death — and possibly just 12 hours before her flight! The final ruling refuses to "establish the significance" of drugs in her death.
Photo credit: Getty Images
Carrie also blamed her father, singer
Eddie Fisher, for the bipolar disorder that plagued her life and caused her to spend a career self-medicating with drugs and alcohol. Her daughter, actress
Billie Lourde, had earlier said that she believed Carrie "ultimately died" from her drug addictions.
Photo credit: Getty Images
The actress and author had a long history of drug abuse, and friends had also told The ENQUIRER that they feared Carrie was
struggling with anorexia while
trying to stay slim for her big-screen comeback. And, in the final tragedy for Carrie's family, her heartbroken mother
Debbie Reynolds passed away just a day after her daughter's death.
Photo credit: Getty Images
