NAOMI TOOK DRUG COCKTAIL BEFORE DEATH
Globe US|September 26, 2022
Autopsy report exposes singer’s tragic secrets
NAOMI TOOK DRUG COCKTAIL BEFORE DEATH

DEEPLY depressed Naomi Judd was pumped full of drugs when she shot herself in the head — leading a medical expert who reviewed her autopsy to suggest the country queen was abusing substances before her April suicide.

According to a postmortem performed by a coroner in Tennessee’s Davidson County, the troubled songbird’s corpse was filled with etomidate, a propofol-like anesthetic; the muscle relaxant Klonopin; the antidepressants venlafaxine and O-desmethylvenlafaxine; seizure-preventing primidone; the Ecstasy-type designer drug mCPP; sleep prescription drug trazodone; and memantine, an Alzheimer’s medication.

This story is from the September 26, 2022 edition of Globe US.

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