Did Anna Nicole Smith Die From the Disease Lupus?
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Allie @ Gone Hollywood | Tuesday, February 27, 2007 |
Did Anna Nicole Smith die from a disease she kept from the world?
Tonight on ET, Anna’s longtime friend, FRANK RODRIGUEZ, drops a bombshell — claiming that the late TRIMSPA spokesmodel possibly died due to complications from the autoimmune disease, lupus.
A close friend of Anna Nicole’s since 1996 who also appeared on “The Anna Nicole Show,” the emotionally distraught Frank exclusively tells ET’s THEA ANDREWS, “I just remember her telling me she didn’t want her fans to remember her this way; that it couldn’t get out.”
Frank says Anna revealed her secret to him about two years after they met, in 1998. Lupus is a disease in which the body’s immune system attacks its own organs and tissues. It most often affects the joints, skin, kidneys, heart, lungs, blood or brain, which can result in achy joints, fever, prolonged fatigue and seizures.
“Her whole body would ache,” says Frank, who claims that Anna was in denial about her situation and may have not sought further treatment for the disease. “She would just shut down, basically; she would sleep for days. It was frightening at times, the seizures. She went into seizures a lot. She’d black out a lot of the times. She pulled me aside and she told me that she was on medication for it. She told me her condition.”
Frank says he believes Anna died because of lupus (”I think her body just shut down,” he says), and that he finally came forward because he wants to set the record straight and put the speculation to rest that Anna Nicole had been abusing drugs.
“[The public is] entitled to know the truth,” he says. “I mean, she’s gone and I don’t like what I hear about her. I don’t want people to remember her for what they say — that she was a drug addict. It angers me. It really, really upsets me.”
Frank says that Anna’s alleged former boyfriend, LARRY BIRKHEAD, did not know about the lupus until a little over a week ago. “I called Larry and told him; I thought that he should know,” says Frank. “I believe he’s the father [of DANNIELYNN] and I was concerned for his daughter. So I called him and I told him.” As for Anna’s partner, HOWARD K. STERN, “He may have known, he may have not, I didn’t know. Howard and I haven’t really talked.”
Today in the Bahamas, Howard acknowledged to ET’s MARK STEINES that Frank was a part of Anna’s inner circle, but he is skeptical about the lupus claim: “I’ve been told what Frankie said, and he may have believed it, but I don’t think it would be entirely accurate,” says Howard.
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I think that everyone should just leave Anna Nicole Smith to rest. She is gone now and a lot of us are still in aww about the situation but she has passed. We are not helping the family by opinionating our accusations about her, we really dont know what the true cause of death was. It could have been an overdose of medication due to the fact of all the pain she was going through from her illness,the death of her son as well as the lawsuit she was fighting. Not to mention she had just gave birth to a baby just a few days before her son died, who can hack that? I dont know her personally, but I couldnt imagine the pain and suffering she was going through. But in reality who can? Unless they’ve gone through it. But Im sure a lot of us have family around, as for Anna when her son died she must’ve felt that she had nomore family. On top of that her post-partum depression, than to put the icing on the cake the lawsuit from her ex. It was said that she was sick… just getting over a flu, nobody wants to believe that she died of lupus. But think about it, through all of that. I believe that the disease caught up to her, she was in so much pain she took that medication to feel better. Without realizing it, she overdosed! Did anyone think of that possible fact? NO! We just all want to give our input on what she did and who she was and all we think and heard of her. She was so sweet, beautiful and so gentle most of the time. Lets remember her for her beauty, her gentleness and her kindness. She wasnt such a bad person. She wasnt perfect but yet in still neither are we or anyone else in this world. Give the girl a break!
Thank You!