Arts & Entertainment

Coroner's Report: Houston Died by Accidental Drowning

The Huffington Post reports that TMZ got a copy of the coroner's report, which states that the pop icon had cocaine in her system when she died in her California hotel room.

 

When music icon Whitney Houston was and laid to rest next to her father at Fairview Cemetery in Westfield, questions lingered about her death.  Fans wanted to know why, at the age of 48, she died so suddenly and how it could have happened in a hotel bathtub.

According to a report in the Huffington Post, the Los Angeles County Coroner's office ruled her death on February 11 to be an accidental drowning.  The report said the troubled singer had traces of cocaine, marijuana, anti-anxiety drug Xanax, muscle relaxer Flexeril and allergy medicine Benedryl in her system at the time of her death. The Huffington Post credits celebrity-gossip site TMZ with obtaining the report.

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