Whitney Houston drowned accidentally; cocaine in her system
March 22, 2012The ruling ends weeks of speculation over how the pop star died.
Authorities collected several bottles of prescription drugs from Houston’s suite at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where she was found dead. But officials have said the amounts of drugs did not seem unusually large.
PHOTOS: Whitney Houston, 1963-2012
Toxicology tests showed a cocktail of drugs in the pop star’s system. Traces of marijuana, Xanax, Flexeril and Benadryl were also found, but officials concluded that those drugs did not contribute to her death.
Houston was found in a bathtub at the hotel a day before the Grammy Awards.
The death certificate, released this month, states that the manner of death was “pending investigation.”
[For the record, 4:07 p.m.: An earlier version of this post incorrectly stated that because the amount of drugs found in her room was not an unusually large amount, it was unclear whether they played a role. The report released Thursday states that cocaine was a contributing cause of her death, but the other drugs found in her system were not factors.]
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