The Uptown Girls actress was “severely anemic,” which is a condition for which she should have been receiving treatment, according to Scheinin’s findings during her autopsy.
“Any decent doctor would have her in the E.R.,” adds Scheinin.
Murphy’s close friends and relatives also mention that they think her passing may have been avoided.
Despite the fact that it was stated that Murphy passed away from pneumonia, a number of speculative theories, including those involving toxic mold, drug overdoses, and even murder and cover-up plots involving Murphy’s late husband Simon Monjack, proliferated online and in the tabloids after her death.
How did Brittany Murphy get so thin?
Murphy denied having an eating issue, but she did lose weight as she went from being a young performer to an adult movie star, and as her health deteriorated at the end of her life, she became remarkably thin and weak.
Could Brittany Murphy have been saved?
Murphy’s autopsy was conducted by now-retired medical examiner Dr. Lisa Scheinin, who claims in the documentary that the actress would have likely survived if she had been transported to a hospital or doctor just days earlier.