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A Sad Way To Go: 10 Hollywood Stars Who Died From Overdose

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Oct. 16 2015, Published 7:26 p.m. ET

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Celebrity deaths are always unfortunate and sad, but these 10 stars who died from drug and alcohol overdoses is very upsetting.

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Glee star Cory Monteith was found in a hotel room after taking a lethal cocktail of heroin and booze at 31.

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Singing legend Whitney Houston died of accidental drowning in 2012 at age 48, but while the coroner ruled the death accidental, cocaine and other drugs were found in Whitney’s system.

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Amy Winehouse tragically passed in 2011 from alcohol intoxication in “lethal amounts” at her London home.

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Heath Ledger, 28, was found by his maid unconscious in bed in 2008 and later died from “acute intoxication” from the combined effects of six different prescription drugs.

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Philip Seymour Hoffman died at 46 from an apparent heroin overdose in 2014.

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One of the most famously beautiful women in Hollywood ever, Marilyn Monroe, was found dead in her home at 36 from “acute barbiturate poisoning” and “probable suicide.”

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Anna Nicole Smith died at age 39 from a “combined drug intoxication” of a reported nine prescription drugs.

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Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain died officially from suicide in 1994 at 27 years old, but a high concentration of heroin and traces of diazepam were also found in his body.

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Wizard of Oz star Judy Garland was found dead in 1969 by her fifth husband from an an unintentional overdose of barbiturates at 47.

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Comedy legend Chris Farley died when he was 33 years old from a cocaine and morphine overdose during a bender with a hooker in Chicago.

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