VIDEO INTERVIEW: Neighbor Describes How Five Rescue Workers Tried To Save Brittany Murphy's Life
Dec. 21 2009, Published 1:01 p.m. ET
Brittany Murphy’s final moments alive were witnessed by her neighbor, who saw paramedics desperately trying to save her life.
Clare Staples told RadarOnline.com: “I saw five firemen bringing down the gurney and take her down to the firetruck, trying to resuscitate her by the fire truck. She had tubes down her throat…I think she was dead already.”
Staples said Murphy’s husband Simon Monjack was “wandering around in his pajama bottoms with no shoes on. He wasn’t even near the gurney, he was just staggering around.”
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Staples, who said she knew Murphy, 32, and her husband “a little bit” told RadarOnline.com that she was used to seeing the couple go “in and out.”
“I came out to see what was going on because I saw two big fire trucks and a paramedic outside the house,” she said. “It’s a tragedy, such a tragedy.”
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Murphy, 32, starred in films such as “Just Married,” “8 Mile” and “Clueless.”
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She was pronounced dead at Cedars Sinai Medical Center Sunday morning at 10:04 after apparently suffering full cardiac arrest at her Hollywood Hills home.
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