
I knew she was dead.”īy the time EMT crews arrived, Monjack and Sharon had been crying and at times almost hysterical. And every second I pushed, I felt my hand become stronger and her heart weaker. “I felt a tiny heart beat,” Monjack told me, his voice cracking over the phone. I immediately started doing CPR.” Sharon remembers that the 5’3” Murphy, at barely over 100 pounds, seemed so very tiny as her 6’2”, 235-pound husband worked on her.

When her mother went to talk to her, she found her laying on the floor unconscious, and yelled out for Simon. “It was the only Brittany-size room.” There was a small table, and she often spent hours there. “That was her comfort zone in our very huge home,” he says. She had gone to the bathroom shortly before 8 a.m. Monjack described for the first time the morning that Brittany died in his Hollywood Hills house. You’re disposable as an actress or actor.” “Warner Brothers relied on conjecture and hearsay about the Puerto Rico film for why they canceled Brittany’s role in Happy Feet. If they didn’t like Monjack before, his imminent Warner Brothers lawsuit isn’t going to endear him to the Hollywood power brokers. “That is the role he assumed after they married and it’s why a lot of people in Hollywood can’t stand him.” Sharon Murphy, Brittany’s mother, visited the Puerto Rican set frequently. She was far too nice to stand up to directors and producers who wanted her to work to exhaustion.” I was ‘difficult’ because I was the enforcer to protect Brittany. What I did do was demand they follow union rules and after she had worked 12-hour days, six days a week, that she get the breaks she was entitled to. “The reports about the Puerto Rican set are fantasy. “Every story needs a villain, and everyone has decided it is me,” Monjack says. View Exclusive Images of Brittany Murphy photographed by Simon Monjack Murphy was excited to have begun production on the sequel to the animated hit Happy Feet, but when she was fired by Warner Brothers, Monjack says, “She was devastated.”

Although the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office hasn’t released a final cause of death, Monjack and Brittany’s mother, Sharon, who also spoke to me, are convinced that the once-promising star died of a heart attack from the stress caused by Warner Brother’s canceling of a contract just two weeks before she died. The Daily Beast has learned that Simon Monjack, the much-maligned husband of Brittany Murphy, is only days away from filing a wrongful-death action against Warner Brothers, claiming that the studio is responsible for the unexpected death of the 32-year-old actress last December. In an exclusive interview, Brittany Murphy’s husband Simon Monjack reveals he’s suing Warner Brothers for wrongful death talks about how drug rumors destroyed Brittany’s career denies rumors that he was drunk on the set of The Caller and talks about Brittany’s final moments.
