Lawyer Says Smith Had to Be Sedated
By JESSICA ROBERTSON, Associated Press Writer
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Anna Nicole Smith and her son Daniel Smith, 13, ...
NASSAU, Bahamas - Anna Nicole Smith was so distraught by the death of her son Daniel that she had to be sedated and she later suffered memory loss of the event, said her Bahamian attorney, Michael Scott.
Anna Nicole Smith and another one of her attorneys, Howard K. Stern, continued efforts to revive 20-year-old Daniel Wayne Smith even after he had been proclaimed dead by staff at Doctors Hospital in Nassau, Scott said.
"Anna Nicole was so distraught at the loss of Daniel that she refused to leave his side and it was necessary to sedate her in order to check her out of the hospital," Stern read from a prepared statement. "The devastation and grief over Daniel's sudden death coupled with the sedation has been so extreme that Anna Nicole experienced memory loss of the event."
"It was necessary for Howard to tell Anna again that Daniel had passed away," he added.
Stern was the third person in the hospital room that Bahamian authorities had earlier declined to identify.
Authorities said they believe they know what killed Smith on Sunday, three days after his mother gave birth to a baby girl. But they were waiting for a toxicology report to confirm the findings.
Anna Nicole Smith, a reality TV star and former Playboy model who went to the U.S. Supreme Court this year to sue for an inheritance, was in seclusion in the Bahamas with family and friends, Scott said.
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