Whitney Houstons shocking autopsy from scars and | UK News

Whitney Houston, the star of The Bodyguard, was discovered lifeless by her assistant at the Beverly Hilton resort on February 11 2012, leaving her legion of followers across the globe devastated.

A post-mortem examination later revealed that the singer of I Will Always Love You, often referred to as “the Voice” due to her extraordinary vocal talents, died from unintentional drowning, exacerbated by coronary heart disease and cocaine use, at the tender age of 48.

The autopsy performed following Whitney’s premature death also unveiled distressing particulars about how alcohol and drug misuse had ravaged her physique.

Her physique was marked with scars

The coroner who inspected Whitney’s physique, which was discovered face down in the bathtub, famous in the report that she bore quite a few abrasions.

An “old healed vertical scar” was seen on the singer’s inside decrease left forearm. The official doc additional famous that abrasions had been found on her brow and nostril, as properly as others recognized on her shoulder, forearm and left hand.

The autopsy report also talked about a “possible old puncture wound to her inner left elbow” and scars ensuing from the singer’s breast implants.

Skin burns

Due to the scalding water in the bathtub, measured at 93.5 levels (deemed “extremely hot” by the autopsy report), Whitney’s pores and skin had been seared off her back, inflicting ‘pores and skin slippage’ on her legs.

The report contained further findings of “minor skin slippage” to the entrance of both of Whitney’s knees, and to the entrance central space of her legs, alongside “skin slippage to the lower central area of her back”.

Furred arteries

An ITV documentary, Autopsy: The Last Hours of Whitney Houston, featured analysis from internationally acclaimed forensic pathologist Prof. Richard Shepherd, who examined the coroner’s discovering that the star had been bothered with atherosclerosis, which he characterised as “the furring up of the artery”, ensuing in the precise coronary artery of her coronary heart being “narrowed by 60 per cent”.

The condition develops when the liner of the artery sustains injury. The specialist elaborated: “That damage is stuck to by platelets, tiny cells within the blood stream, which then attract globules of fat. As the wall gets thickened by this fat and platelet, it narrows down to just a tiny pinhole eventually.”

Prof. Shepherd famous that atherosclerosis is “common in the elderly” and is “very strongly associated with the smoking of tobacco”, which Whitney battled to give up throughout her life.

Nevertheless, he then highlighted: “To find it this severe in someone aged 48 strongly suggests that other factors have played a part.”

seen injuryy discharge rising from nostril

In a notably disturbing part of Whitney’s autopsy report, the coroner famous that there was a “bloody purge coming from her nose” and that both of the star’s eyes had been ‘congested’.

Traces of a “white powdery substance” had been also found on a number of surfaces in the toilet of Whitney’s room at the Beverly Hilton resort, alongside “a small spoon with a white crystal like substance in it” and rolled up paper.

Beyond the toilet where Whitney’s physique was found, an open champagne bottle was noticed on the mini-bar, while an open beer can sat on a desk. A bottle of beer was also seen on a bedside desk alongside a number of free tablets.

Whitney had been candid about her substance abuse, beforehand revealing to Oprah Winfrey in a 2009 interview that it turned “heavy” after filming her 1992 film The Bodyguard. She explained to Oprah that she would smoke marijuana mixed with rock cocaine.

Sewn-on wig

A brown wig was found to have been ‘tightly hooked up’ onto Whitney’s natural hair during the autopsy, despite her own hair still being noticeably full, black and wavy with ‘no balding’. Her eyebrows had been described as being ‘sparse’ with ‘irregular hair distribution’.

It was also revealed that Whitney’s higher tooth had been changed by a “maxillary dental prosthesis”.

This adopted claims by Tina Brown, the sister of Whitney’s ex-husband Bobby Brown, that the singer had beforehand “lost” her tooth during days-long drug binges.

“She loses them in the house and when she’s out on drug binges. They cost $6000 and the dentist has to keep FedEx’ing her a new set,” she said in 2006.