Howard K Stern Says Anna Nicole Refused to Go to the Hospital

Howard K Stern has released a statement stating the Anna Nicole Smith refused to go to the hospital for treatment for the stomach flu, fever, and infection prior to her death to avoid the media that followed her.

The Medical Examiner in Broward County said yesterday that Anna Nicole could have survived had she received medical treatment for her ailments instead of self medicating.

Anna Nicole had a long list of medications in her system at the time of her death, including the powerful sleeping drug chloral hydrate, methadone, valium, several antidepressant and anti-anxiety drugs, longevity medications, vitamin B12 and growth hormone.

The Medical Examiner, Perper said, if only because her drug use could have been controlled: "If she would have gone to the hospital she wouldn't have died because she wouldn't have had the opportunity to take the excessive amount of chloral hydrate."

Both Stern and Smith's physician had attempted to get her to seek emergency treatment but she refused because "she did not want the media frenzy that follows her."