Posted on 12/24/2009 9:30:10 PM PST by libh8er
A private funeral was held on Christmas Eve for actress Brittany Murphy, who died suddenly Dec. 20 at the age of 32.
A small group of close friends and family members - including her mother, Sharon, and husband, British screenwriter Simon Monjack - gathered at the Church of the Hills at the Forrest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles to pay their respects. It is the same cemetery where singer Michael Jackson was buried earlier this year.
The actress was interred in the Bright Eternity section; "Amazing Grace" was sung at the graveside, according to RadarOnline.com.
Actor Eric Balfour was among the pallbearers.
Her estranged father, Angelo Bertolotti, did not attend the funeral. "If I wanted to go, I would go, but I don't want to see her that way," he told E!. "She was flawless to me. She was a little bright child. I have only good memories about her. She's a memory to me now. To me she's off making a movie somewhere."
A larger memorial service for Murphy may be held early next year.
Murphy was pronounced dead at 10:04 a.m. at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after she was found unresponsive in the bathroom of her Hollywood home this past Sunday. The death is under investigation, and autopsy results are pending. Her husband denies she had an overdose or eating disorder.
Her pal Balfour told UsMagazine.com Tuesday, "Everyone is devastated. It is just a tragedy."
In recent months, Murphy's frail appearance worried colleagues.
While shooting the horror flick Something Wicked this summer, "she looked ill, as much as 10 pounds underweight, and she's a small person to begin with," executive producer Scott Chambers told the Los Angeles Times.
In January, she was set to begin the romantic comedy Shrinking Charlotte. Writer-director Rene Eram told E! that while Murphy was professional, "I noticed that she had dropped a lot of weight in the last six months."
But Jeff Bowler, a producer on her new drama Across the Hall, saw Murphy Dec. 1 and tells Us that while he "only got to talk to her for a few minutes, she seemed OK. She was a little pale, but she seemed fine."
"She was bubbly and excited and went around and said hi to everybody and shook hands and gave autographs," he tells Us. "Typical Brittany."
Yet another celebrity doper laid to rest.
<Yet another celebrity doper laid to rest.
Another charitable response to an event for which we have few facts until the autopsy.
Personally, I’ll always remember her as LuAnn Platter and smile. RIP, Ms. Murphy, whatever your problems were, they shouldn’t have come to this.
Yet another an assumption by an FR lightweight.
She's was a good person who did a lot of work for being 32. She presumably married the wrong guy and went downhill fast.
It truly is a tragedy. imho
Christmas Eve’s will never be the same to her mother again.
So I say
I say welcome, welcome to the boomtown
Pick a habit
We got plenty to go around
Welcome, welcome to the boomtown
All that money makes such a succulent sound
Welcome to the boomtown
Well the ambulance arrived too late
I guess she didn’t want to wait
You have no idea how wrong he was. Google his ass and see how much he wronged other women, and was arrested and convicted for financial crimes. He also had overstayed his visa before rushing to marry Murphy (gee why the rush?) Now he is a citizen and has her money. Nice (for him). Could I be wrong? Of course. Hope I am. But he is one baaaad apple.
FR lightweight, OK … only going by the news reports of her “innocent” death.
I read that she never changed her will. Her mother gets everything.
Christmas sprite not withstanding, I call them as I see them. Should I dictate my beliefs the day after Christmas? Yes that will make a difference.
My wife is on just as many prescriptions as Murphy was, completely legally for legitimate reasons. It is entirely possible to accidentally take second doses when she loses track. An accidental OD not out of the question. To assume she was a doper assumes that my wife and everyone else with continuing medical problems are dopers.
Then there is rapid onset appendicitis, same thing happened to Glenn Beck while on the air. News said she complained about sharp stomach pains a few hours before being found dead.
Then of course if she had an eating disorder there is always complications there.
How about waiting for an autopsy before casting judgment.
I am sorry to hear that. I can only imagine how difficult it must be for the both of you, but especially your mother.
I’m sorry
To think they lecture us hicks how to live our lives. May God have mercy on her soul.
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