It was a shock when Brittany Murphy died in 2009.
She was just 32, and while she had a long list of film and TV credits to her name, she seemed to have a substantial future ahead of her in Hollywood.
Murphy, who grew up in Edison before moving to California, is dearly missed by her friends and and many fans. More than 11 years later, her death remains a subject of interest.
Now HBO Max is set to take on the mystery clouding her death in a two-part documentary from Blumhouse Television and Pyramid Productions, Variety reports.
Murphy died after suffering flu-like symptoms, passing out in the bathroom of her Los Angeles home in the arms of her mother, Sharon, who lived with her at the time. Her cause of her death has been the subject of much speculation.
Murphy’s husband, Simon Monjack, died at their home in 2010, just five months after she died.
The documentary, directed by Cynthia Hill, will also trace Murphy’s career path. The actress starred in movies like “Clueless,” “8 Mile,” “Girl, Interrupted,” “Just Married,” “Don’t Say A Word,” “Uptown Girls” and “Sin City” as well as in TV’s “King of the Hill” as Hank Hill’s niece Luanne Platter.
“I agreed to do this film because I think it’s a shame that Brittany’s promising life and career has been eclipsed by the circumstances of her death,” Hill told Variety. “I think it’s important to celebrate Brittany’s talent as we struggle to explain the tragic circumstances of her and Simon’s death.”
Murphy’s death was ruled an accident: pneumonia combined with intoxication from over-the-counter drugs and anemia from severe iron deficiency. Monjack’s cause of death was pneumonia and anemia.
After Murphy and Monjack died, there was speculation that mold in their home could have been a factor, but an inspection of the house before they died reportedly did not find mold.
“It is unusual to have two people die of similar circumstances with pneumonia,” Ed Winter, Los Angeles County assistant chief coroner, told ABC News in 2010. “We’ve been looking at it and saying, ‘Something isn’t right.’ I’m not saying you can’t get pneumonia from mold, but we did all the tests on it — mold did not come up in the toxicology reports.”
In 2020, Investigation Discovery aired a special about Murphy’s death called “Brittany Murphy: An ID Mystery,” which interrogated the notion that she died of natural causes. Angelo Bertolotti, Murphy’s father, was interviewed for the special before he died in 2019.
“Our Brittany Murphy documentary cuts through the tabloid noise with an elevated, nuanced depiction of a sensational story,” said Jennifer O’Connell, HBO’s executive vice president of nonfiction and live-action family programming.
“We thought her story warrants a deeper exploration and examination into the environment that allowed her to become a victim of success,” said Mary Lisio, executive vice president of alternative and non-scripted programming at Blumhouse Television.
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Amy Kuperinsky may be reached at akuperinsky@njadvancemedia.com and followed at @AmyKup on Twitter.
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