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There have been rumors for some time that Brittany Murphy’s widower and Brittany’s mom had a romantic relationship that may or may not have predated Britney’s death in late December of last year. Now that we know that Brittany’s widower, Simon Monjack, has died at 40 maybe-not-so-coincidentally from the same cause that took Britney, we have a kind of confirmation from police that Simon and Brittany’s mom slept in the same bed at the time of his death. It’s a sad footnote to a complicated tale of two people dying young amid scandal. This whole story is sounding Shakespearean and I would bet there’s much more we don’t know.
Brittany Murphy’s mother told investigators that she shared a bed with her daughter’s husband Simon Monjack after Brittany passed away … this according to sources close to the investigation.
The L.A. Coroner’s Office just released their report on Simon Monjack’s death.
In the report, the investigator documents an exchange with a person whose name has been withheld — but whom law enforcement sources have identified as Brittany’s mother, Sharon Murphy.
According to the report, the investigator and the unnamed person (Sharon) were going through the master bedroom in the Hollywood Hills home that Simon shared with Brittany … when (Sharon) pointed to one side of Simon’s bed and identified it as “her side of the bed.”
Sharon also told the investigator that certain prescriptions in the nightstand — bearing the names Sharon Murphy and Sharon Monjack — were also hers.
The report doesn’t suggest sexual contact between the two.
[From TMZ]
Given this latest twist, people are going to be speculating that Brittany’s mom had some sort of sinister reason for wanting both her daughter and her (probable) lover dead. I wouldn’t jump to that conclusion, and would guess that this just makes the whole tragedy even worse for her. These two were grieving together in their way, and I don’t want to think too hard about what that entailed.
Brittany’s mom has denied that any kind of toxic mold in the home lead to the deaths of her daughter and son-in-law. TMZ reported that this was a definite possibility, though, and that mold in the home “came up early during the investigation into Brittany’s death — but it was deemed “not to be a contributing factor.’”
Radar Online has more on Simon’s cause of death as was found in the autopsy report. He had pneumonia an incredible nine times, was on oxygen, and a large array of prescription drugs were found in his system at the time of death. The autopsy report stated that “All of these drugs were detected at therapeutic or sub-therapeutic levels and most likely did not contribute to Mr. Monjack’s death.” The guy had also had a heart attack in November, 2009, had a “leaky” heart valve, suffered seizures after a fall a couple of years prior and had just one kidney. He was in very poor health at the time of his death. Whatever was going on with Brittany’s mother and her son-in-law, I feel for her. I would also tell her to get the home thoroughly inspected and to try and sell it if possible. Even if there’s no environmental cause for these two young people’s deaths, that house has to be full of sad memories.
Photos are screenshots from Sharon Murphy and Simon Monjack’s appearance on The Today Show in January
Written by Celebitchy
Posted in Brittany Murphy, Sharon Muphy, Simon Monjack
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Maybe sleeping in that bed, or at least not alone, was some sort of grieving thing?
I dunno. I’ll give the woman benefit of the doubt unless I hear something a little more scandalous than sharing a bed.
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Ick. For whatever reason, these two seemed sketchy to me even before hearing this. I think there is something more to this but, ick, not sure I even want to know.
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Way too much information regardless if anything went on – or not.
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such sketchiness.
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I’m with you guys – a sad sort of circumstance and one I don’t want to know about. Maybe they just shared a home and a grieving process that brought them closed through shared love. No matter how sketchy he and their whole deal seemed. Now I’m going to go stick my fingers in my ears and sing ‘mary had a little lamb’ and not click on related posts.
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OK these two always seemed sketchy but I can tell you when my mother died I could not sleep in my bed but I could sleep on the couch, it’s like psycholicially I could not deal with all the extra space and no my mother and I did not live or sleep together. If there were another person in antoher bed in my house at the time I could have seen me asking if I could sleep with them. I was grieving and scared.
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um disturbing
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The whole situation is just…odd. I feel badly for her that she lost two people she loved so close together though.
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This is why I adore this site. Celebitchy and others here have not passed some tight-assed judgement on these two individuals, but have instead given them the benefit of the doubt that if they in fact shared more than a bed after Brittany’s death, it may have been part of their grieving process.
I fully agree.
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Maybe she was trying to be closer to her daughter by sleeping where she slept on the bed. I mean, it’s ick and all, but I’d imagine that it could have helped her feel closer to her daughter. It probably still smelled like Brittany, and that could have been comforting.
Or maybe they were sickos.
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fluffyrabbit – Yea, I don’t think anything went on.
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Grieving or not, it’s bizarre.
I still think he was an incredibly sleazy person.
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Disinfectant, please.
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why the hell doctors gives away prescription so easily? And then people get drugged and died of it. It’s a shame!
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Sharon Monjack? Ewww. The whole family reeks of something twisted. RIP Brittany.
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CB – you are a kind soul. Don’t let anyone tell you any different.
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I’m sorry, getting pills in a psuedonym is just sketchy. I still am going to choose to feel as CB feels here, but the pills under Sharon Monjack are sketchy.
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Grandma and I think this is way majorly weird and why is she staying in that house, it seems like something out of that movie The Shining. It would be also interesting to have a fung shui expert dude go through the home and see what they have to say about it?
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I understand that. One or the other, or both of them didn’t want to sleep alone. Death is eerie and silent and makes you feel like that. When my mother died nearly three years ago my teenaged son and I slept together in my bed for more than a week.
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@California Surfer:
I have to say (regardless of why you do it) your, ‘Grandma and I’ posts crack me up.
And Sharon Monjack? Either the new Mrs. or playing a mom role to Simon? Suspect.
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I too am eeeew at Sharon Monjack. I know people grieve in different ways but to think she sleeps in her daughter’s bed at the same time as her widower is all sorts of creepy.
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umm, ick nast? i hate to judge but that is all kinds of wrong [to me, at least]!
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@ jc126: Yeah, I’m with you.
Grieving or not, this is all kinds of dysfunctional, inappropriate and just plain icky. Sorry if that’s too judgy for some, but no matter how grief-stricken I might be, I would not share a bed with my dead daughter’s widower. Boundaries are a healthy thing.
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Suspicious? I don’t think so. Crazy and effed up? Most definitely.
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Brittany and her mother were incredibly close her entire life; I was a fan even before Clueless, and I remember her giving interviews about putting her life on hold to support her mother’s struggle with breast cancer. No matter how weird or tragic their lifestyle ended up being, that woman has got to be broken-hearted, and I wouldn’t judge her for a thing she’s done since losing the daughter around which her life revolved.
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Those tragic tragic people. I only hope Brittany is in a better place & I hope her mother somehow can find some peace.
I don’t know if Simon was a victim or an instigator but he did not have a peaceful end.
I too think there is more to the story. I wonder if Sharon has anyone she can talk to.
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Does anyone else think the mother and Simon look alike in that first picture?
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This site is definitly kinder than I would’ve been regarding the relationship between these two. I think the whole thing is fucked up beyond words and I hope we get the whole story someday, purely to satisfy my own sick curiosity.
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no, that is not normal. that would be like me grieving over mr. original kate and sleeping with his brother or his father. grieving is one thing, but living with and sleeping with your mother-in-law is creepy. i suspected something back when brittany died and i saw her mother & simon interviewed and he kept calling her “baby.” ick, ick and more ick.
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Dodgy.
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I knew something was up with this woman when it first came out that Brittney had said to her “I’m dying” and she didn’t even call the ambulance at that point waiting instead until after Britney collapsed…she’s totally suspect to me and so was Simon.
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I can’t imagine my husband sleeping in the same bed as my mother if I died. He does have problems sleeping alone when we have to be away from each other, but he would never sleep in the same bed as my mother.
I find it all odd.
Didn’t Brittany have a leaky valve? Mitral valve prolapse?
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