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PEOPLE/ARTS Tuesday 20 June 2017

The Rock and Roll Coroner: Cocaine among drugs

Hall of Fame to expand found in Carrie Fisher’s system

to Japan this year By ANTHONY McCARTNEY

AP Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Car-
rie Fisher’s autopsy report
shows the actress had co-
caine in her system when
she fell ill on a plane last
year, but investigators
could not determine what
impact the cocaine and
other drugs found in her
system had on her death.
The report released Mon-
day states Fisher may have
taken cocaine three days
before the Dec. 23 flight on
which she became ill. She
died four days later.
It also found traces of This April 7, 2011 file photo shows Carrie Fisher at the 2011
heroin, other opiates NewNowNext Awards in Los Angeles. Associated Press
and MDMA, which is also
known as ecstasy, but that Fisher took cocaine at least ac arrest on the airplane

This April 24, 2016, file photo shows the Rock and Roll Hall of they could not determine three days before her flight. accompanied by vomit-
Fame and Museum, located on the shores of Lake Erie in down- when Fisher had taken “At this time the signifi- ing and with a history of
town Cleveland. those drugs. The findings cance of cocaine cannot sleep apnea. Based on
Associated Press were based on toxicology be established in this case,” the available toxicologi-
screenings done on sam- the report states. cal information, we cannot
NEW YORK (AP) — The ond-largest music mar- ples taken when the “Star It also states that while establish the significance
Rock and Roll Hall of ket in the world, mak- Wars” actress arrived at a heroin is detectable in the of the multiple substances
Fame plans to expand ing it the perfect place Los Angeles hospital. system for a briefer period that were detected in Ms.
— into the House of the for the Rock & Roll Hall Coroner’s officials ruled of time, investigators could Fisher’s blood and tissue,
Rising Sun. of Fame’s first interna- Fisher died from sleep ap- not determine when Fisher with regard to the cause of
The Cleveland-based tional expansion.”The nea and a combination took it or the ecstasy. Toxi- death,” the report states.
cology tests also found Among the factors that
museum has announced hall opened its doors on of other factors. A news other opiates in Fisher’s sys- contributed to Fisher’s
release issued Friday men-
plans to create a perma- the shores of Lake Erie in tem, including morphine, death was buildup of fatty
nent presence in Tokyo. 1995 and estimates it has tioned drugs were found although the report states tissue in the walls of her ar-
in Fisher’s system, but it did
A short-term exhibit will had more than 10 million not provide details. the morphine could have teries, the coroner’s office
open in September. visitors. It houses every- Monday’s full report con- been a byproduct of her- said last week.A phone
Hall of Fame President thing from a Kurt Cobain tains a detailed explana- oin. message left for Fisher’s
and CEO Greg Harris guitar to gloves worn by tion of the results, such as “Ms. Fisher suffered what brother, Todd, was not im-
says, “Japan is the sec- Iggy q why investigators believe appeared to be a cardi- mediately returned.q

Kelly’s Alex Jones report seen by just 3.5 million viewers

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — relatives of the victims. In aired, he responded, “I
The publicity and uproar in the interview, Jones never think he’s blessed to have
the days before Sunday’s gave a direct answer when his children to spend the
broadcast of Megyn Kelly’s Kelly pressed him to admit day with, to speak to.
interview with conspiracy he was wrong and con- I don’t have that.”
theorist Alex Jones didn’t tinued to raise questions Andrew Friedman, a rep-
translate into ratings. about the shootings. resentative for the New-
The NBC program was seen A parent of one of the town victims’ families, said
by 3.5 million viewers, ac- children killed in the 2012 Monday that neither he
cording to Nielsen, an audi- Connecticut school shoot- nor Joshua Koskoff, the
ence dwarfed by CBS rival ings says she won’t view lawyer for the families in a
“60 Minutes,” a rerun which the Megyn Kelly interview lawsuit against gun maker
drew 5.3 million viewers. of conspiracy theorist Alex Remington Arms, had any
“Sunday Night with Megyn Jones that aired on NBC’s comment on the Jones in-
Kelly” had 6.2 million view- “Sunday Night With Megyn terview.
ers for Kelly’s interview of Kelly.” Connecticut’s NBC affiliate
Vladimir Putin on the show’s Nicole Hockley’s 6-year-old did not air Sunday’s report
June 4 debut. son, Dylan, was among the and lawyers representing
In the days preceding her 20 children and six educa- 12 people who lost loved
segment on Jones, Kelly tors killed at Sandy Hook In this April 27, 2017 file photo, Megyn Kelly attends the TIME 100 ones at Sandy Hook urged
had received widespread Elementary School in New- Gala, celebrating the 100 most influential people in the world in NBC News officials not to
criticism for giving a plat- town. New York. air the interview.
form to a man whose false She said Monday she won’t NBC News Chairman Andy
allegations only added to watch the interview for One Newtown parent did killed. When Kelly asked Lack told The Associated
the pain of the Newtown “obvious” reasons; Jones appear on Kelly’s program: him if he had anything to Press that the Jones story
tragedy and even encour- has called the school Neil Heslin, whose 6-year- say to Jones for Father’s would be edited with its
aged people to harass shooting a hoax. old son, Jesse Lewis, was Day, when the interview critics in mind.q