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Anna Nicole - The Drug Factor

Perscription drugs were Anna Nicole’s lifelong companion.

The just-released Florida autopsy has confirmed what was suspected all along — an accidental overdose from prescription drugs caused Anna Nicole’s death.

Anna Nicole’s substance abuse goes way back to a 1989 drunk driving arrest in Texas when she was just 21. By the mid-1990’s, her problems reached a whole new level.

In 1994, Anna Nicole was rushed to the hospital after cops said she mixed alcohol with prescription drugs. Just a year later Anna Nicole was seen, slumped in a wheelchair, checking into the Betty Ford clinic after what she said was a bad reaction to two prescription medications.

Anna Nicole’s former bodyguard Pierre Dejean told INSIDE EDITION that she took prescription drugs in alarming doses, which sometimes resulted in rage-filled phone calls from the model.

The bodyguard showed INSIDE EDITION what he said was one of Anna Nicole’s actual prescriptions - one for the painkiller Demerol, as well as bottles he said once contained Anna Nicole’s painkillers, Lorcet and Vicodin.

As the years went on, Anna Nicole insisted that she’d turned her life around, repeatedly denying that she was abusing drugs. But her antics aroused suspicions.

When INSIDE EDITION spoke to Anna Nicole backstage at the 2004 American Music Awards, she clearly appeared disoriented, and her bodyguard and Howard K. Stern held her up as she walked around.

Now Anna Nicole’s autopsy confirms once and for all just how terrible a role perscription drugs played throughout her troubled life.

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Bonnie and Gary Stern say little Dannielynn is happy and healthy, despite some tabloid reports.

Howard's Family Fights Back!

ET EXCLUSIVE: Howard K. Stern's family speaks out on Virgie and the tabloid headlines!

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HOWARD K. STERN's family is fighting mad and talking exclusively with ET, as BONNIE and GARY STERN defend their brother's name!

Since his partner, ANNA NICOLE SMITH, passed away in February, Howard has been called everything from a murderer and a kidnapper to a free-loader.

"It makes me sick," Bonnie says. "Because, first of all, I know it's not true."

Some reports in the media claim that Howard is making millions off of Anna's death, but Bonnie blasts these claims.

"The person who's being accused of making all the money -- whether from life insurance policies or selling things to the media, even the funeral and stuff -- that is the person who has to pay all his own legal expenses and his own legal fees," she tells ET. "My parents are the ones who are paying for it."

"He set up a trust fund for DANNIELYNN," Gary explains. "Any money that came from the funeral went directly to that trust fund for Dannielynn. He has not made one penny off of this, not one penny. For 12 years he was [Anna's] companion, attorney, publicist," he adds. "He helped rebuild her career, her legacy, and did it for free. He did it because he loved Anna."

When it comes to Anna's mother, VIRGIE ARTHUR, Howard's family holds nothing back.

"She's staying in hotels that she definitely can't afford on the amount of money she says she makes," Bonnie claims.

Virgie has reportedly filed papers in the Bahamas hoping to become Dannielynn's guardian ad litem.

"You will never get that baby," Bonnie insists. "Never. Over our dead body. That's my reaction to that. Never."

Gary believes Anna made her wishes known, saying, "I think Anna was very clear about who she wanted to be in her child's life and who she didn't. She wanted Howard to be the father. And Howard, until his dying day, is going to make sure that Dannielynn is loved and cared for in a loving and nurturing environment."