Note: In the written part of the story on the website, Tas mentions beint there 'with a friend'. But she makes no mention of 'friend' in the recorded interview.
"Fighting back tears, she asks that we use only her first name -- TAZ. She's the wife of ANNA NICOLE SMITH's bodyguard "BIG MOE" and a registered nurse. In an exclusive "Insider" interview, Taz tells us she was the one who first discovered Anna motionless under the covers and tried to revive her.
"All I knew was that I had to do something to save her. I had to breathe for her, and I tried," Taz says emotionally.
Taz tells "The Insider" that her husband had asked her to watch over Anna in her Florida hotel room as he and HOWARD K. STERN went to pick up Anna Nicole's boat.
"She didn't need supervision," Taz clarifies. "[Moe and Howard] just wanted to leave someone there in case she would wake up and neither one of them were there. I would be sitting in the room and I could tell her ... 'Moe had to run an errand and Howard went to get your boat.'"
But Taz says that she and a friend sitting with her soon realized things were not right with Anna Nicole.
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Transcript of The Insider interview with Tasma Brighthapt
http://www.theinsideronline.com/celeb/5387/
21 Feb 2007
Part 1
Tas: Her mouth was open, and there was just no, no, no movement. And I said to him, “You need to get back here right now. I don’t like what I see. Anna is not responding to me. Call 911 and get back here.”
Clip from the 911: recording previously released: “If you could please respond to the Hard Rock . Room 607.
Tas: I gave her two breaths, they didn’t go in.
Interviewer: You tried to save her life.
Tas: I tried to save Anna’s life.
Voiceover: For several agonizing minutes, Tas tried to resuscitate Anna before Moe burst into the room.
Int: What did Moe say when he got to the room?
Tas: He screamed at me. He said, “Is there any reason why Anna’s still on the bed? How could you do CPR on the bed?” I said, “I can’t get her on the floor.” I said, “Can I help you?” “No, back away, Let me do this. I have to save Anna”
Int: What, in your opinion, killed Anna Nicole?
Tas: I have no opinion, and you know why? Because I’m a registered nurse and that’s out of my scope of practice. But you know one day, after the medical examiner is done with his examination, the world is going find out what killed Anna. It’s gonna come from him.
Int: That toxicology report?
Tas: It’s gonna show everything. Everything. This could be the smoking gun.
Int: Did Anna Nicole commit suicide?
Tas: I don’t know. I don’t know.
Int: Were there any drugs, illegal or prescription in the room at that time?
Tas: There was a bottle of antibiotics on the table. That’s all I saw.
Int: Other than that, nothing.
Tas: Nothing.
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Part 2
Re-enactment
Int: This is the most shocking thing I’ve heard in this investigation.
Voiceover: And you’ll hear why in a minute, from Tas, the nurse, who’s re-enacting how she found a lifeless Anna Nicole, who she thought was just asleep.
Tas: And I went over, and I looked at her, and I was like “Oh my God.”
VO: Tas knew something was terribly wrong.
Tas: No breathing, no anything. So what I did was I turned her over and I shook her, and I said, “Anna, Anna are you awake? Anna, Anna wake up.”
VO: And when Anna didn’t wake up, the registered nurse started CPR, but instead of calling 911, she called her husband, Moe, the bodyguard.
Tas: Call 911, and come right away. Something’s wrong with Anna.
Int: Did the emergency crews respond?
Tas: No, he got there first.
Int: He got there first?
Tas: He got there before they did. And that’s what I don’t understand what all the big hoopla is about ‘why didn’t you call 911?’ I knew he would get there before 911, because he was not that far away.
VO: But before Moe could get there, Tas tells us about her terrifying moments alone with Anna.
Tas: I looked in her mouth, and her tongue was like…stuck to the roof of her head. I had to pretty much pry it down.
Int: And then when Moe entered the room, he took her body and lifted her out of the bed.
Tas: Uh huh, lifted her like this……both hands under here and onto the floor. And went to do CPR. That’s the last time I saw Anna Nicole Smith alive.
VO: But the most shocking thing, Anna could have died while on Tas’ watch or she could have passed away hours before.
Int: She could already have been dead, before you ever even got there.
Tas: She could have. She could have.
Int: That toxicology report?
Tas: It’s gonna show everything. Everything. This could be the smoking gun.
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That's a very interesting statement.
Why would she use the phrase "the smoking gun?"
To me, that sounds like a reference to a crime.
Why not say "that could give the answer" or something less ominous sounding?
Did Tas already have suspicions about Anna being in danger?
So Anna expected either Moe or HKS to be with her at all times? I really do think she was a prisoner.
According to Tas, she turned Anna over, therefore indicating she was found on her stomach?? If true, this might account for previous reports of blood going to her chest and face - meaning she was dead for a period of time.
"Tas: I looked in her mouth, and her tongue was like…stuck to the roof of her head. I had to pretty much pry it down."
Is Tas trying to imply that Anna had a seizure??
Great job on the Tas/Taz interview....much to study there.