Los Angeles: Whitney Houston died from mixing a cocktail of Xanax and other prescription drugs with alcohol, it has been reported.
Her family have allegedly been told by Los Angeles County Coroner officials there was not enough water in her lungs to conclude she had drowned in her luxury hotel bathtub, and in fact died before her head went under water, said the gossip website TMZ.
The revelations come as it emerged that her daughter Bobbi Kristina, 18, allegedly fell asleep in a bathtub in the same Beverly Hilton hotel just 24 hours before her mother died. TMZ claims security was called to unlock the door and to help the 18-year-old on that occasion.
Relatives now fear Bobbi Kristina has become suicidal – after she was rushed to hospital twice in the 24 hours following the discovery of her mother’s dead body in the bath.
The teenager was first admitted after allegedly passing out, after drinking alcohol, then taking a sedative pill given to her by one of her mother’s entourage to calm her down upon learning of the devastating news.
Bobbi Kristina was then pictured being taken out of the Beverly Hilton – the same hotel where her mother had died just hours earlier – on a stretcher at 10.30am yesterday and being rushed to Cedars-Sinai hospital, where she was treated for extreme anxiety. She was released several hours later.
On Saturday afternoon, crack cocaine user Houston, 48, was found dead under the bath water in her luxury suite at the Beverly Hilton, which is said to have been littered with bottles of prescription pills.
Reuters reports that Houston’s body could be released to her family, officials said yesterday, following an autopsy that has been sealed by officials until further tests determine the cause of her death. – Daily Mail
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