The unsealed bottle of a hundred pills finished what years of dosing began
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The unsealed bottle of a hundred pills finished what years of dosing began
In this episode we trace the chain of events from Judy Garland's childhood performances to the medicine on her bathroom shelf in London on June 22, 1969, asking how decades of management and pills accumulated into a fatal balance. What does the unopened bottle reveal about when her dependence began and who shaped it?
Person: Judy Garland
Date: June 22, 1969
Location: Belgravia, London
Age: 47
Event: Coroner's ruling of accidental death
- Two pill bottles were found on the bathroom shelf: one half-empty with twenty-five pills, the other unopened with one hundred.
- Toxicology recorded the blood equivalent of ten Seconal capsules with no gastric inflammation or stomach residue.
- Garland began performing at age two and entered MGM at thirteen, where she was given stimulants, sedatives, and physical alterations to fit studio demands.
- After signing with MGM she worked six days a week and was chemically managed with pills to wake and to sleep throughout her teens.
- The coroner, Gavin Thurston, spent days with the two bottles to understand whether the drugs represented a single act or a cumulative process.
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