Brittany Murphy husband breaks his silence to confront all the rumors

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11:34 am, December 22nd, 2009

 

“I am feeling beyond devastated. I was in love with Brittany and Brittany with me,” says Brittany Murphy’s husband Simon Monjack.

He went on to dispel some inaccurate stories in the media. “These rumors that she was anorexic? It’s crazy – she was slim,” says Monjack, adding that his late wife “enjoyed food as much as anyone. I wish I could show all the receipts from the take out restaurants.”

And as for talk that she overdosed on prescription medication, the British photographer attacks it head-on: “I can get rid of that one right now.” He notes, “there was prescription medication in the house for her female time and some cough syrup. That was it.”

So then why did she die?

“This is what’s killing all of us? How did it happen? Her mum, myself and her family – we want to know why we lost our baby,” Monjack asks in a teary interview with People magazine.

He says the only thing he knows is what he was told — that she died of cardiac arrest — and that there won’t be additional information until the autopsy tests are completed in about six weeks.

About eyebrow-raising reports that he didn’t want her to have an autopsy, Monjack explains, “My initial reaction to the autopsy was – they’re going to cut her open – I couldn’t bear it… That would break her mother, but we realized we needed to know. I look forward to getting the results.”

“It’s horrible – the death of a beautiful young woman, a Hollywood icon; it has to be explained. It just can’t be a tragic accident,” says Monjack, trying to reason the abundance of sensational stories. “We don’t want to accept that a beautiful young wife and daughter woke up one morning and died a tragic death.”

And equally tragic, according to Monjack in a startling revelation, is that “She wanted a baby. Her big dream next year was to have a child.” 

Gossip Cop will update when more details, including funeral arrangements, emerge.

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