NAOMI TOOK DRUG COCKTAIL BEFORE DEATH
Autopsy report exposes singer’s tragic secrets
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.
Florida oncologist Dr. Jerome Spunberg was astonished by the number of different medications in Naomi’s system, saying: “I know she was suffering from depression but that’s a lot of drugs! I don’t think mixing all these drugs was a good idea.”
He believes Naomi might have been abusing the medications.
“Sometimes people have multiple doctors, and they all
prescribe different things, and the doctors aren’t aware what the other one’s giving and then the patient’s taking all these pills at once,” says Spunberg, who notes the 76-year-old’s medical history is laid bare by the autopsy.
Part of Naomi’s left lung
had been removed and she’d had deadly hepatitis C, which a source says she caught while working as a nurse at a Nashville hospital.
She also had extensive plastic surgery, one or more facelifts, an eye lift and a boob job with implants! She had a tattooed hairline and ink around her lips, eyebrows and eyelids. But the gunshot did severe damage, according to the autopsy.
The coroner also discovered “suit case” written in “faint pen ink” on her left palm. A source close to the family explains, “All of her important paperwork was in a suitcase. She wanted to let her family know to look in her suitcase!”
The insider also says Naomi wanted her remains given to the Neptune Society for sea burial, but the exact disposition isn’t clear.
“I heard she was buried at home in Tennessee and part of her ashes went somewhere else, maybe scattered at sea,” the insider says.