Brittany Murphy was ‘going through a hard time’ before her sudden death: She ‘deserved a different story’

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cause of death listed as pneumonia.Murphy’s co-stars from her final movie, “Something Wicked,” detailed that in the months before her death, the star was “frail” and a shell of herself.“She was just a little bird that you wanted to be around and you wanted to help,” actress Katie O’Grady told People in a story published on Friday.The “Uptown Girls” alum became extremely sick with flu-like symptoms and passed out in her mom’s arms after telling her, “Mommy, I can’t catch my breath.

Help me,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.“She was really sick with pneumonia, very anemic, and she was taking medication, and all that combined killed her,” Coroner Asst.

Chief Ed Winter told People at the time. Five months later, Monjack died, with the screenwriter’s autopsy showing symptoms similar to Murphy’s, listing anemia and pneumonia as the cause of death.O’Grady recalled signs of Murphy’s mental and physical state being worrisome while filming on the set in Eugene, Oregon.She remembers Murphy as “frail” and noticeably “going through a hard time,” with the cast and crew generally getting the sense “to be soft around her.”She was “petite” and so small she could be simply “scooped up with little effort,” O’Grady explained.In her final years, Murphy lost a noticeable amount of weight, with rumors swirling that she was struggling with an eating disorder.

Although she denied the accusations, Murphy’s drastic low energy worried O’Grady.O’Grady remembers the “Abandoned” vet had low physical and mental strength, lacking someone to properly support her. “I just feel that she could have used somebody in her life that maybe was strong.”But despite her physical appearance, the “Clueless” alum was still kind to everyone on set.“There was still.