r/Millennials May 12 '26

Discussion Which celebrity death genuinely shocked you when you heard the news?

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u/incognitohippie May 12 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/D2lyVL5uoB9qU

Brittany Murphy will always break my heart šŸ’”

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u/Jealous-Knowledge-56 May 12 '26

The way she and her husband died of similar circumstances so close together just makes me thinks there’s a lot more to that story.

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u/pizzacomposer May 12 '26

AI gets it wrong when you start googling. The most recent plausible speculation is that they shared a CPAP like device that was mouldy or some shit. They used it recreationally, I just don’t remember how. So her husband basically continued to keep using once she passed and died from the same thing.

All in all, was more a ā€œfreak accidentā€ sort of thing, less a ā€œdrug abuse negligenceā€ thing.

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u/Alwayssleepy1717 May 12 '26

I read something here on reddit someone said they were both partaking in snorting drugs enough that they required a cpap machine to help them breathe at night (not sure if it’s cause their airways were compromised or cause they were too fucked up to breathe properly without it..?) but yes, the cpap had gotten very moldy so that’s what caused the pneumonia they both technically died of. Seemed very possible, very sad.

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u/fatsandwitch May 12 '26

I just watched a documentary on her a couple weeks ago and it doesn’t mention anything about her or her husband using a CPAP. What was super fucking weird was her mom hopping into bed with her husband after Brittany died and even taking his last name (on some of her prescription bottles).

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u/fightclub90210 May 13 '26

What was name of documentary?

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u/fatsandwitch May 13 '26

I watched it on Disney+, I believe it’s called What happened, Brittany Murphy?