In Her Final Days, Anna Nicole Smith Was So Weak, She Had to Be Fed With a Baby Bottle!

The final days of Anna Nicole Smith were described in court today as being marked by illness and confusion, reports the AP.

California Department of Justice investigator Danny Santiago testified that witnesses said Anna was unable to walk unassisted into a Florida hotel and was being kept in seclusion.

The testimony was presented in a preliminary hearing involving charges that Anna's former lawyer-boyfriend Howard K. Stern and two California doctors conspired to illegally provide Smith with controlled substances before her drug-overdose death in Florida at age 39.

The investigator recounted a detective's description of Anna's arrival at the hotel on Feb. 5, days before her death.

"He said she was being supported by Mr. Stern," Santiago said. "He was holding her as they walked through the lobby. He said she wasn't her usual vivacious self. She seemed down and was possibly ill."

Santiago said he was told Anna "was so weak she could not sit up to drink liquids."

He also testified that Howard had told an investigator he had been giving Anna the children's electrolyte formula Pedialyte in a baby bottle and that she was so confused she asked where her baby, Dannielynn, was. (The baby was in the Bahamas.)

Howard also told investigators that Anna had complained of flu-like symptoms and was being treated with Tamiflu by Dr. Khristina Eroshevich, a psychiatrist and one of the doctors charged. Dr Eroshevich, who was believed to be having a sexual relationship with Anna, was staying in the suite next door in the hotel.

At one point, Howard had to help Anna to the bathroom because she couldn't get there, the witness said.

Dr Eroshevich at one point asked a hotel employee to call a doctor because she could not write prescriptions in Florida, but Howard called to cancel the request because they did not want any leaks about Anna's condition, Santiago said.

He added that registered nurse Tasma Brighthaupt, the wife of Anna's bodyguard, was seated at her bedside at one point but did not notice Anna's lips were blue and her body was discoloring until someone else arrived and pointed it out. Tasma thought Anna was sleeping.

By the time paramedics were called, he testified, the bodyguard had arrived and started CPR.

The testimony continues today.


(Here's a completely horrific photo of Anna, supposedly taken after death.)


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