Brittany Murphy’s husband Simon Monjack plans to sue Warner Brothers, saying they are responsible for the death of his actress wife in Los Angeles, The Daily Beast website reported Wednesday.
British screenwriter Monjack told The Daily Beast his wife was so devastated after Warner Brothers cut her role in the sequel to Happy Feet that she died of a heart attack.
Warner Brother’s canceled Murphy’s contract just two weeks before she died at age 32 of a cardiac arrest at her LA home.
She was also fired from the movie, The Caller, which was filmed in Puerto, before she was removed from Happy Feet. There were reports she behaved erratically on the set of The Caller.
Monjack said: “Warner Brothers relied on conjecture and hearsay about the Puerto Rico film for why they canceled Brittany’s role in Happy Feet.”
He is allegedly days away from filing a lawsuit. Warner Brothers had no comment.
Monjack also told The Daily Beast of the morning the diminutive Murphy died in their Hollywood Hills house after she had gone to the bathroom shortly before 8 a.m (local time).
“That was her comfort zone in our very huge home,” he says. “It was the only Brittany-sized room.”
Murphy was later found by her mother, Sharon, lying on the bathroom floor unconscious. Sharon yelled out for Monjack.
“I came running in. I immediately started doing CPR.”
Sharon remembers that the 5’3” Murphy, at barely over 100 pounds, seemed so very tiny as her 6’2” , 235 pound husband worked on her.
“I felt a tiny heart beat,” Monjack told me, his voice cracking over the phone. “I was pushing with the heel of my hand. And every second I pushed, I felt my hand become stronger and her heart weaker. And then it stopped. And I kept pushing. She died in my arms. I knew she was dead.”
Murphy’s cause of death is yet to be released by the Los Angeles County Coroner following investigation.