PHOTOSA Sad Way To Go: 10 Hollywood Stars Who Died From Overdose
Oct. 16 2015, Published 7:26 p.m. ET
Celebrity deaths are always unfortunate and sad, but these 10 stars who died from drug and alcohol overdoses is very upsetting.
Glee star Cory Monteith was found in a hotel room after taking a lethal cocktail of heroin and booze at 31.
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.
Amy Winehouse tragically passed in 2011 from alcohol intoxication in “lethal amounts” at her London home.
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.
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.”
Anna Nicole Smith died at age 39 from a “combined drug intoxication” of a reported nine prescription drugs.
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.
Wizard of Oz star Judy Garland was found dead in 1969 by her fifth husband from an an unintentional overdose of barbiturates at 47.
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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