The story of Brittany Murphy is even weirder than you thought

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  @ardenzephyr4852 · 5 months ago

  I still wish I lived in a timeline where she played Harley Quinn to Heath Ledger's Joker, such a perfect "what could've been duo"

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• SA

  @SanguinaryBlade · 5 months ago

  The casual comment dismissing pneumonia as easily recoverable is kinda misinformed. It can be extremely deadly.

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• ER

  @erikadlloyd5586 · 5 months ago

  When you realize how inundated Hollywood is full of nepo babies, it's almost a miracle that someone like Brittany Murphy was able to be so successful as she was coming from nothing, no industry connections, just talent and tenacity.

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  @RenegadeContext · 5 months ago

  Grandmothers do not recover from pneumonia with soup FFS. I had pneumonia at 30 and it nearly killed me. It's a serious disease and can be hard to spot til it's too late, especially if you're crazy busy

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• DR

  @drivethrupoet · 5 months ago

  Ladies: when a doc runs a "blood panel" that doesn't include ferritin levels aka iron. Demand a ferritin test especially if you have heavy periods. Severe anemia can feel like a flu, so if you're negative for all viruses then also ask for that ferritin test.

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• WI

  @Willow11535 · 5 months ago

  Her death impacted me in some strange way. I'll never forget it. She was so full of life. I knew she was troubled but there was an authentic goodness to her that she never lost.

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  @415erinar00 · 5 months ago

  As an elder millennial, Freeway, Girl Interrupted, and Clueless made me a Brittney Murphy stan for life

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• MO

  @Morgan-lm6ns · 5 months ago (edited)

  How hard it hit me when you said your grandma recover from pneumonia with soup, my grandma just died from it yesterday, you never really know how you gonna die, also I had two cousins who were younger than Brittany that have died from it, its even more believable to me now that she could die from it but I know her situation was also negligence, had she gone to the Dr. maybe she would still be here

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• TI

  @TippiStrongbottom · 5 months ago

  She had the same sparkle in her eyes as Marilyn Monroe

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• DA

  @David-zm7mi · 5 months ago

  one of those souls i lay awake at night and wondering, “what if they weathered the storm?” “what lessons could they have shared?”

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• MO

  @montsergirl · 5 months ago

  I adore Brittany and always thought something was off with the way she passed.

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• AU

  @AurmazlZudeh · 5 months ago

  Experts pointed out that the heavy metals were not found in her blood or hair roots, indicating external contamination (hair dye/treatments) rather than ingestion

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