Los Angeles (dpa) – Sleep apnea and drug use were among the contributing factors in the death of “Star Wars” actress Carrie Fisher, a coroner in Los Angeles said Friday according to US media.
In addition to sleep apnea, a condition in which a person temporarily stops breathing while asleep, the coroner’s statement cited, “other
conditions: atherosclerotic heart disease, drug use,” the Los Angeles Times reported.
It concluded, “The manner of death has been ruled undetermined.”
Though it was unclear exactly what role drugs played in Fisher’s death, her daughter Billie Lourd released a statement blaming them.
“My mom battled drug addiction and mental illness her entire life.
She ultimately died of it,” she told People magazine. “She was purposefully open in all of her work about the social stigmas surrounding these diseases.”
Fisher, who shot to fame as Princess Leia in “Star Wars,” died aged 60 on December 27 several days after suffering a heart attack on a
flight from London to Los Angeles. Her mother Debbie Reynolds died just a day later.
