REVELATIONS – In early July, we learned the death of the actress Amanda Peterson at the age of 43 years. The site TMZ revealed today that she has succumbed to an accidental acute morphine overdose.
The circumstances of her death remained disorders. TMZ revealed today that Amanda Peterson, 43, died from an overdose of drugs, including antidepressants, at her home in Greeley, Colorado, last July 5. The autopsy report indicates that the young American actress had also used marijuana.
A week before her death, Patrick Dempsey’s colleague in ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’, in 1987, reportedly told a relative have self administered morphine to treat pain. The autopsy report also states that traces of Neurontin, a drug used as an antiepileptic, had been found in her blood, up to six times the permitted dose.
At the announcement of her death, the US magazine People revealed that actress Amanda Peterson was arrested several times by the police between 2000 and 2012.
According to her mother, Sylvia Peterson, she had long struggled with her addictions in youth. “She had overcome them, she told the TV show “Entertainment Tonight.”
“Amanda Peterson’s death is in no drug-related,” she insisted.
Born July 8, 1971 in Colorado, Amanda Peterson made her film debut in Annie, John Huston, at the age of 11 years. In 1985, she was the partner of Ethan Hawke in Explorers, Joe Dante, before to play opposite Patrick Dempsey two years later in Can’t Buy Me Love, in which she played cheerleader Cindy Mancini. After Windrunner, in 1994, she was arrested on cinema.
