Apparently it wasn’t a coke overdose per se but a fatal heart attack brought on by a combination of ongoing heart disease and coke use.
TMZ reports Vicodin, Valium, Xanax, oxycodone, temazepam, and alcohol were found in his system too.
Well, the coke was obviously so he could continue to be conscious under the effects of the ass-ton of goddamn sedatives…
But wait! There’s more…
Not that I had a lot of respect for the guy anyway, but after hearing all the eulogizing I thought maybe he wasn’t a bad guy, but now I have no respect or sympathy except for his family. The guy had it all and threw it away. There’s tons of people with chronic pain that don’t resort to illegal drugs, and can manage without a buttload of prescription drugs. If he hadn’t died that night he’d have died the next day during his scheduled surgery because I doubt his anesthetist would have been informed about all the drugs he was taking.
So does this mean we will finally stop seeing him trying to sell us stuff from beyond the grave?
Yeah! Like Michael Jackson!
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That’s an excessive amount of drugs, but I’m left wondering how many of them were for the hip pain, as opposed to being evidence he was a pill-popper. Probably some of each.
LOL - I’m totally going to hell for laughing at this.
Wow. And I used to joke that he reminded me of Al Borland on cocaine.
Who would’ve thought that a slick, hyperactive salesman forged in the '80s would’ve been on cocaine?
I loved Billy Mays, though. And I do have sympathy. Everybody fucks up.