1 00:00:02,380 --> 00:00:03,660 Good day, we are coming on the air with 2 00:00:03,660 --> 00:00:07,260 breaking news about the death of an American music icon. 3 00:00:07,260 --> 00:00:09,260 Prince, the innovative, one-of-a-kind artist who's 4 00:00:09,260 --> 00:00:14,100 given us so much great music over the decades, has been found dead. 5 00:00:14,100 --> 00:00:18,300 Prince sold 100 million records worldwide, 6 00:00:18,300 --> 00:00:21,980 making him one of the bestselling artists of all time. 7 00:00:23,780 --> 00:00:26,340 He worked at it obsessively. 8 00:00:26,340 --> 00:00:32,100 Prince won seven Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe and an Oscar. 9 00:00:32,100 --> 00:00:35,580 He was quite the genius, without question. 10 00:00:35,580 --> 00:00:38,660 But this massive success brought huge pressures 11 00:00:38,660 --> 00:00:40,540 Prince found hard to handle. 12 00:00:40,540 --> 00:00:43,060 He had tremendous stage fright. 13 00:00:43,060 --> 00:00:47,340 The record company wanted to own him and control him. 14 00:00:47,340 --> 00:00:51,700 He vowed, "I will never ever allow that to happen." 15 00:00:53,940 --> 00:01:00,140 And then, on April 21, 2016, Prince's star went out. 16 00:01:01,540 --> 00:01:04,020 He was only 57. 17 00:01:04,020 --> 00:01:07,540 I just can't believe it. I just can't believe he's gone. 18 00:01:09,060 --> 00:01:10,940 It freaked me out when I heard it. 19 00:01:10,940 --> 00:01:13,380 Completely shocked the hell out of me. 20 00:01:13,380 --> 00:01:16,460 A lot of people are still trying to deal with the shock 21 00:01:16,460 --> 00:01:20,340 and the surprise, you know, how it happened. 22 00:01:20,340 --> 00:01:24,540 Why would Prince, who was so health conscious, so against smoking, 23 00:01:24,540 --> 00:01:30,580 drinking and using drugs, die suddenly, at only 57 years of age? 24 00:01:30,580 --> 00:01:33,860 Was this a tragic accident or are there darker reasons 25 00:01:33,860 --> 00:01:35,860 for his mysterious death? 26 00:01:44,740 --> 00:01:47,420 Renowned forensic pathologist, Doctor Michael Hunter, 27 00:01:47,420 --> 00:01:51,660 is Chief Medical Examiner in one of America's biggest cities. 28 00:01:51,660 --> 00:01:54,540 He has conducted over 4,000 autopsies 29 00:01:55,300 --> 00:01:58,180 and works closely with law enforcement 30 00:01:58,180 --> 00:02:00,860 to investigate suspicious deaths. 31 00:02:00,860 --> 00:02:04,060 I have here, Prince's Medical Examiner's statement, 32 00:02:04,060 --> 00:02:09,380 but in my 20 years of experience, I know to get the full picture of how 33 00:02:09,380 --> 00:02:13,540 someone died, you need to examine all of the available information. 34 00:02:13,540 --> 00:02:18,660 So with this, along with news reports and witness statements, 35 00:02:18,660 --> 00:02:23,140 I'm going to piece together exactly how and why Prince died. 36 00:02:24,660 --> 00:02:29,300 Thursday, April 14, 2016, Atlanta Georgia. 37 00:02:29,300 --> 00:02:31,540 Seven days before his death. 38 00:02:34,540 --> 00:02:38,860 Prince is playing the last concert of his Piano & A Microphone Tour. 39 00:02:40,660 --> 00:02:45,020 Piano & A Microphone Tour was a change in direction. 40 00:02:45,020 --> 00:02:49,100 Kind of an autobiography about, you know, his life and growing up, 41 00:02:49,100 --> 00:02:52,580 and the piano was his first musical instrument that he played. 42 00:02:54,100 --> 00:02:59,180 He wanted to strip down everything and just have him, the microphone, 43 00:02:59,180 --> 00:03:00,940 the piano and his audience. 44 00:03:00,940 --> 00:03:03,420 He had complete control 45 00:03:03,420 --> 00:03:07,300 of what he wanted to sing, when he wanted to sing it. 46 00:03:07,300 --> 00:03:09,220 He was floating on cloud nine. 47 00:03:10,220 --> 00:03:13,060 Kind of like an unplugged thing, which I heard at the house 48 00:03:13,060 --> 00:03:15,660 and at the studio, you know, years ago. 49 00:03:15,660 --> 00:03:19,780 I think it was the next phase of an older artist. 50 00:03:19,780 --> 00:03:22,420 The tour is a great success. 51 00:03:22,420 --> 00:03:26,860 And yet, just seven days later, Prince was dead. 52 00:03:31,940 --> 00:03:35,940 The first thing I see here is at the time of his death, 53 00:03:35,940 --> 00:03:41,460 he was 57 years old and he only weighed a 112 pounds. 54 00:03:41,460 --> 00:03:45,380 Even though he was 5'2", this is still very slim for 55 00:03:45,380 --> 00:03:47,380 a man of his age. 56 00:03:47,380 --> 00:03:50,580 It could be down to his punishing work schedule 57 00:03:50,580 --> 00:03:52,660 or due to something else. 58 00:03:52,660 --> 00:03:56,340 I need to look deeper into his medical background. 59 00:03:59,220 --> 00:04:02,820 Prince Rogers Nelson was born in a poor neighbourhood of Minneapolis 60 00:04:02,820 --> 00:04:05,620 on June 7, 1958. 61 00:04:07,220 --> 00:04:09,860 His mother Maddie and father John 62 00:04:09,860 --> 00:04:14,460 were both jazz musicians and devout Seventh-Day Adventists. 63 00:04:16,020 --> 00:04:19,380 But the marriage didn't last and when they split, 64 00:04:19,380 --> 00:04:21,420 Prince moved in with his father. 65 00:04:22,940 --> 00:04:27,660 His dad was very strict and Prince told me, his dad had a piano, 66 00:04:27,660 --> 00:04:30,020 but he would never let him play the piano. 67 00:04:31,540 --> 00:04:35,220 His father hit him so hard, he'd knock him off the piano stool 68 00:04:35,220 --> 00:04:37,260 for daring to touch the piano. 69 00:04:39,380 --> 00:04:42,780 When Prince's father threw him out, Prince moved into the house of a 70 00:04:42,780 --> 00:04:44,460 childhood friend. 71 00:04:44,460 --> 00:04:47,780 Together, they turned the basement into a rehearsal studio. 72 00:04:49,460 --> 00:04:51,020 I started getting to 73 00:04:51,020 --> 00:04:54,220 know him musically at that time and I used to go over and watch 74 00:04:54,220 --> 00:04:58,980 them rehearse in the basement and I remember, he was very shy. 75 00:05:01,500 --> 00:05:02,860 He was more shy 76 00:05:02,860 --> 00:05:06,220 in the public eye when he had to speak or whatnot, because that just 77 00:05:06,220 --> 00:05:08,260 wasn't a normal thing for him. 78 00:05:08,260 --> 00:05:11,700 The normal thing for him was to get out and perform and, 79 00:05:11,700 --> 00:05:15,180 boy, when he picked a guitar or piano, whatever, 80 00:05:15,180 --> 00:05:18,460 you saw what Prince was capable of doing. 81 00:05:18,460 --> 00:05:20,460 Prince's talent 82 00:05:20,460 --> 00:05:26,020 for music, which was immense, seems to have come with birth. 83 00:05:26,020 --> 00:05:28,380 Here's a guy that by the time 84 00:05:28,380 --> 00:05:33,860 he's 11, he's playing his jazz musician father's piano. 85 00:05:33,860 --> 00:05:37,940 He wrote his first scores at the age of nine. 86 00:05:37,940 --> 00:05:40,540 By the time he was 12, 87 00:05:40,540 --> 00:05:46,700 he was able to play guitar, bass, piano, drums, keyboards. 88 00:05:46,700 --> 00:05:48,340 At the age 19, 89 00:05:48,340 --> 00:05:52,580 Prince's talent is recognised and he records his first album. 90 00:05:54,180 --> 00:05:57,140 He was very focused on what he wanted to do. 91 00:05:57,140 --> 00:06:00,580 Artistically, he did not want anybody to produce him. 92 00:06:00,580 --> 00:06:02,340 He wanted to produce himself. 93 00:06:02,340 --> 00:06:04,300 And he was spot-on. 94 00:06:04,300 --> 00:06:07,700 He was able to go in the studio and put together that first record 95 00:06:07,700 --> 00:06:12,300 in pretty lightning speed, because he had so many great ideas. 96 00:06:12,300 --> 00:06:16,380 The following year, 'I Want to be Your Lover' 97 00:06:16,380 --> 00:06:17,940 becomes his first gold hit. 98 00:06:19,660 --> 00:06:22,220 After that, the hits just keep coming. 99 00:06:23,660 --> 00:06:25,900 Among them, chartbusters like 100 00:06:25,900 --> 00:06:29,260 '1999', 'Little Red Corvette', 101 00:06:30,780 --> 00:06:34,700 and the multi award-winning movie and soundtrack, 'Purple Rain'. 102 00:06:34,700 --> 00:06:38,860 Prince is now an international star. 103 00:06:40,820 --> 00:06:45,060 His need to be successful stemmed from not having that 104 00:06:45,060 --> 00:06:47,340 much as a child. 105 00:06:47,340 --> 00:06:50,540 Everybody needs validation. Everybody likes that. 106 00:06:50,540 --> 00:06:55,420 But I think he needed the love and approval of his fans. 107 00:07:02,020 --> 00:07:03,940 Prince had a troubled childhood and it was 108 00:07:03,940 --> 00:07:07,220 made worse by something that I found in his medical history. 109 00:07:07,220 --> 00:07:12,580 He was born with epilepsy, a debilitating brain disorder. 110 00:07:12,580 --> 00:07:16,460 Anybody that's ever suffered with epilepsy or seen that in action, 111 00:07:16,460 --> 00:07:22,500 knows how horrifying that can be, other children don't understand 112 00:07:22,500 --> 00:07:26,620 and will inevitably mock you, you suddenly aren't one of the crowd. 113 00:07:28,300 --> 00:07:32,780 Prince's epilepsy also separated him from the church-going community 114 00:07:32,780 --> 00:07:38,060 he grew up in, where seizures were often seen as a curse. 115 00:07:38,060 --> 00:07:41,020 Epileptic seizures can be quite violent. 116 00:07:41,020 --> 00:07:44,540 And for reasons that doctors can't quite explain, 117 00:07:44,540 --> 00:07:49,060 there's an electrical storm that causes severe shaking, convulsions, 118 00:07:49,060 --> 00:07:51,460 and can even cause unconsciousness. 119 00:07:53,140 --> 00:07:57,500 But I can see here that those stopped suddenly when he was seven. 120 00:07:57,500 --> 00:08:02,340 Prince's epilepsy disappeared from one day to the next. 121 00:08:02,340 --> 00:08:04,820 Most epilepsies last a lifetime, 122 00:08:04,820 --> 00:08:07,740 but sometimes, they just go away for no apparent reason. 123 00:08:07,740 --> 00:08:12,140 So, I don't believe this condition played any role in his death. 124 00:08:12,140 --> 00:08:14,860 But I can see that there is something that happened in 125 00:08:14,860 --> 00:08:17,780 the weeks prior to his death that could be significant. 126 00:08:29,899 --> 00:08:32,499 Two weeks before his death. 127 00:08:32,499 --> 00:08:36,179 The last date on Prince's Piano & A Microphone Tour 128 00:08:36,179 --> 00:08:37,939 suddenly has to be rescheduled. 129 00:08:42,579 --> 00:08:44,459 Prince's notes tell us that he was 130 00:08:44,459 --> 00:08:48,859 sick with the flu, the fever, the muscle aches, the lethargy. 131 00:08:48,859 --> 00:08:51,339 It would have been extremely debilitating 132 00:08:51,339 --> 00:08:54,859 and it would have made it very difficult for Prince to perform. 133 00:08:54,859 --> 00:08:59,139 In some cases, flu can spread to the lungs, causing pneumonia where 134 00:08:59,139 --> 00:09:02,219 the lungs become inflamed and fill up with fluid. 135 00:09:02,219 --> 00:09:04,419 This causes symptoms like coughing, 136 00:09:04,419 --> 00:09:08,299 fever, chills and difficulty breathing. 137 00:09:08,299 --> 00:09:11,339 Oxygen can have trouble reaching the blood. 138 00:09:11,339 --> 00:09:15,219 In extreme cases, complications of pneumonia can be fatal. 139 00:09:16,539 --> 00:09:18,979 In the United States alone, approximately 140 00:09:18,979 --> 00:09:23,779 35,000 people die each year from complications of the flu. 141 00:09:23,779 --> 00:09:26,459 So if Prince did have the flu, 142 00:09:26,459 --> 00:09:29,579 it was good that he stayed in bed and got over it. 143 00:09:29,579 --> 00:09:33,299 His show is rescheduled for a week later: 144 00:09:39,459 --> 00:09:41,819 Seven days before his death. 145 00:09:43,259 --> 00:09:45,379 Prince is back on stage for the rescheduled 146 00:09:45,379 --> 00:09:48,579 last date of his Piano & A Microphone Tour. 147 00:09:49,739 --> 00:09:51,899 Some fans think he looks drained. 148 00:09:51,899 --> 00:09:55,339 People that were closer to the stage that night, 149 00:09:55,339 --> 00:09:58,259 they said, you know, he looked a little frail and pale as well. 150 00:09:58,259 --> 00:10:02,059 And they were still kind of worried about, was he at full health? 151 00:10:02,059 --> 00:10:03,819 The audience would actually 152 00:10:03,819 --> 00:10:07,619 sing a lot of the lyrics while he played the piano. 153 00:10:11,299 --> 00:10:17,339 Prince is famous for his after-show parties that go on all night. 154 00:10:17,339 --> 00:10:21,419 Yet as soon as he comes off stage, he wants to go home. 155 00:10:21,419 --> 00:10:25,459 He flies back to Minneapolis that same night. 156 00:10:25,459 --> 00:10:29,179 I can't rule out Prince's flu worsening, 157 00:10:29,179 --> 00:10:33,419 but it's clear that there was something far more serious happening. 158 00:10:33,419 --> 00:10:38,699 Prince's fans said he looked weak and pale at the rescheduled show 159 00:10:38,699 --> 00:10:41,019 of his Piano & A Microphone Tour. 160 00:10:41,019 --> 00:10:44,699 Rumours that he wasn't fully recovered from the flu took a much 161 00:10:44,699 --> 00:10:48,939 darker turn when he became unconscious on the plane home: 162 00:10:58,419 --> 00:11:01,539 Six days before Prince's death. 163 00:11:01,539 --> 00:11:04,539 Around 1am, an urgent radio call is received. 164 00:11:04,539 --> 00:11:07,259 What's the nature of the emergency? What's the nature of the... 165 00:11:07,259 --> 00:11:09,019 An unresponsive passenger. 166 00:11:09,019 --> 00:11:11,379 Was it a male or a female passenger? 167 00:11:11,379 --> 00:11:12,979 It's a male passenger. 168 00:11:14,939 --> 00:11:18,299 Just before 1.30am on the Friday morning, 169 00:11:18,299 --> 00:11:21,539 Prince's jet is met by an ambulance. 170 00:11:21,539 --> 00:11:24,139 Minutes later and still unconscious, 171 00:11:24,139 --> 00:11:27,539 Prince is in the ambulance, in the hands of paramedics. 172 00:11:31,219 --> 00:11:35,979 The paramedics immediately give him an injection, a so-called 173 00:11:35,979 --> 00:11:38,819 'save shot' to bring him around. 174 00:11:44,339 --> 00:11:47,779 Within minutes, Prince regains consciousness. 175 00:11:50,019 --> 00:11:52,659 His friend Judith Hill is with him. 176 00:11:52,659 --> 00:11:56,579 News of the incident soon reaches Minneapolis. 177 00:11:56,579 --> 00:11:59,579 I was quite shocked when that happened. 178 00:11:59,579 --> 00:12:03,499 I texted them and I just said, "Is everything OK?" 179 00:12:03,499 --> 00:12:05,459 Because it worried me immediately. 180 00:12:06,419 --> 00:12:07,859 The information that we were getting 181 00:12:07,859 --> 00:12:11,459 was more of dehydration that had happened. 182 00:12:13,299 --> 00:12:16,939 Prince's blackout was not caused by dehydration. 183 00:12:16,939 --> 00:12:21,379 In almost all cases, the safe shot is given to someone who is thought 184 00:12:21,379 --> 00:12:23,899 to be having a drug overdose. 185 00:12:25,219 --> 00:12:28,859 The active ingredient in a safe shot is a drug called naloxone. 186 00:12:28,859 --> 00:12:32,099 It attaches itself to the same receptors in the brain affected 187 00:12:32,099 --> 00:12:36,979 by narcotics and it immediately reverses their affect. 188 00:12:37,859 --> 00:12:39,299 I find it very surprising that 189 00:12:39,299 --> 00:12:41,659 Prince would have overdosed on drugs. 190 00:12:41,659 --> 00:12:46,739 He was well-known for clean living and he was strongly against smoking, 191 00:12:46,739 --> 00:12:49,539 drinking and taking drugs. 192 00:12:53,419 --> 00:12:57,419 I've never seen him do any type of drugs at all, 193 00:12:57,419 --> 00:13:01,499 not even drink alcohol, not smoke cigarettes, nothing. 194 00:13:01,499 --> 00:13:03,419 And he was very against that. 195 00:13:05,019 --> 00:13:07,939 Backstage, you were not allowed to 196 00:13:07,939 --> 00:13:11,579 drink to excess and not at all, in his presence. 197 00:13:11,579 --> 00:13:13,939 Drugs were a firing offence. 198 00:13:15,579 --> 00:13:18,659 But I have here, a transcript of an interview in which it is 199 00:13:18,659 --> 00:13:20,579 revealed that a member of Prince's 200 00:13:20,579 --> 00:13:25,899 own family claimed, allegedly, that he was a heavy cocaine user. 201 00:13:27,419 --> 00:13:31,659 It was Prince's own stepsister, Lorna, who revealed this shocking 202 00:13:31,659 --> 00:13:34,939 information to her attorney. 203 00:13:34,939 --> 00:13:40,019 Lorna, she was almost like a mother to Prince when he was growing up. 204 00:13:40,019 --> 00:13:42,219 She loved him very much, 205 00:13:42,219 --> 00:13:44,859 but she was concerned about him 206 00:13:44,859 --> 00:13:48,819 as time went on and that's when she opened up to me about his drug use. 207 00:13:50,859 --> 00:13:55,099 Lorna felt that the drug use was so significant that he would die 208 00:13:55,099 --> 00:13:56,859 of a heart attack, at some point. 209 00:13:56,859 --> 00:14:01,379 She asked me that if something happened to Prince, if he died 210 00:14:01,379 --> 00:14:05,379 under suspicious circumstances, she asked me to speak on her behalf 211 00:14:05,379 --> 00:14:07,499 about it. 212 00:14:07,499 --> 00:14:10,299 This is a surprising development, 213 00:14:10,299 --> 00:14:14,139 especially since Prince was so outspoken against drugs. 214 00:14:14,139 --> 00:14:20,619 So, I want to know when and how did this supposed cocaine use begin? 215 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:30,400 In 1979, having spent most of the year recording his first album, 216 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:33,960 Prince's record company sent him out to promote it. 217 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:38,000 He makes his first appearance on the legendary music show 218 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:40,080 'Dick Clark's American Bandstand'. 219 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:42,800 How many instruments do you play? 220 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:44,760 Mmm... 221 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:47,640 One of the telling incidents early on in his career 222 00:14:47,640 --> 00:14:51,960 was on the Dick Clark show, which was a huge music TV show 223 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:56,120 in the States. And, of course, famously, he choked. 224 00:14:56,120 --> 00:14:58,520 How many years ago did you make these demos 225 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:00,200 and then have offers on them? 226 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:04,240 And he's completely tongue-tied. 227 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:07,520 And after the show, when friends teased him about it, 228 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:12,280 he vowed, "I will never ever allow that to happen again." 229 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:13,840 You didn't know what you were doing? 230 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:16,080 Don't know. 231 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:20,920 The more successful he became, he became increasingly shy in public, 232 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:23,480 as far as giving interviews. 233 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:27,280 There are many claims that Prince began experimenting 234 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:33,160 with various chemical substances as far back as 'Purple Rain'. 235 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:35,040 Only a few years later, 236 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:38,240 after the global success of 'Purple Rain', 237 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:40,320 a far more confident Prince 238 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:43,680 is being interviewed on every major TV show in the world. 239 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:45,680 The theory goes that 240 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:48,360 how he did that was with some chemical assistance. 241 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:51,680 Perhaps the drugs served a purpose. 242 00:15:51,680 --> 00:15:54,520 They allowed him to do the interviews 243 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:59,840 and to connect with his fans and to, in effect, be the performer that 244 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:02,680 matched his composer talent. 245 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:05,320 How are you feeling? You alright? Beautiful, beautiful. 246 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:08,640 Prince did not start taking cocaine for kicks. 247 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:12,360 He did it because he had tremendous stage fright. 248 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:16,040 Unfortunately, as so often happens, 249 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:19,680 what may have started as a temporary crutch, 250 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:22,040 may have developed into a long-term habit. 251 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:27,160 I have here, a document from the Carver Counter Sheriff's Office 252 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:31,880 which, if true, could suggest that Prince was struggling with cocaine 253 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:34,600 as recently as 2011. 254 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:39,240 There was a woman who called from Germany 255 00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:41,200 who Prince was touring with, 256 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:44,560 who told the Carver County Sheriff's Office that, 257 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:47,160 "This guy's cocaine problem is out of control. 258 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:48,640 Can you guys do something?" 259 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:54,480 Apparently, Prince had advised her to make the call. 260 00:16:58,160 --> 00:17:00,840 If this phone call is to be believed, 261 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:04,320 it sounds like a cry for help, which the police did not act on. 262 00:17:04,320 --> 00:17:07,200 So Prince may have been left to fight his 263 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:10,880 apparent battle with cocaine alone. 264 00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:15,560 If that happened to him, then that's extremely sad. 265 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:19,360 It'd be really disappointing for me to believe 266 00:17:19,360 --> 00:17:23,520 that he was addicted to anything, because he seemed so strong to me, 267 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:27,560 mentally and physically and just as a person. 268 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:29,320 So it'd be really hard to accept. 269 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:40,160 Six days before Prince's death. 270 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:44,920 After receiving the save shot, Prince is taken to a nearby hospital 271 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:47,840 where he is kept overnight for observation. 272 00:17:49,040 --> 00:17:54,840 The news of that emergency landing was shocking to me and shocking to 273 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:58,960 a lot of fans, because this is kind of the first time we were 274 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:02,520 ever hearing that there was any drug use involved with Prince. 275 00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:09,320 So far, there are no medical records documenting his use of cocaine. 276 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:11,560 But there are reports 277 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:17,000 that Prince used another drug a week before he died Percocet. 278 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:22,440 Percocet is a powerful painkiller used to manage severe pain 279 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:25,040 from an injury or after surgery. 280 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:28,680 Reports show that in 2010, 281 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:33,360 Prince had a serious operation and this could explain the painkillers. 282 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:41,480 Between 1979 and 2007, Prince toured almost continuously, 283 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:46,720 performing over 1,000 shows on stages around the world. 284 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:50,400 Prince really pushed himself too much 285 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:53,520 with doing the shows and the performances and rehearsals 286 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:56,160 and god knows what else. 287 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:01,200 He worked at it obsessively. 288 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:05,680 Prince was an incredibly athletic performer. 289 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:07,320 I mean, he didn't just do the splits. 290 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:11,680 He could do them ten times and twirl and usually, 291 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:15,800 he was playing at least one instrument and singing at the time. 292 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:21,040 Prince paid a high price for his physically punishing shows. 293 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:25,560 He suffered with his ankles and his knees and his back. 294 00:19:25,560 --> 00:19:30,440 Typical ailments for a classically trained ballet dancer, 295 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:34,640 let alone a young guy who'd never had any training in dancing, 296 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:38,880 had simply just gone for it. 297 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:41,800 He may have been taking medication because of pain, 298 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:43,760 which is a normal thing. 299 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:45,600 You know, I mean, 300 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:49,000 anybody that's in constant pain would have to take something for 301 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:51,880 it to be able to bear that. 302 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:57,560 According to reports, in the early '90s, Prince was suffering from 303 00:19:57,560 --> 00:20:02,800 chronic head pain and by 2005, he needed a double hip replacement. 304 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:07,720 At first, Prince refused to have the operation because he had become 305 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:11,280 a Jehovah's Witness, and they don't allow blood transfusions. 306 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:15,640 But a hip replacement doesn't necessarily require a transfusion 307 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:18,920 and he eventually had the surgery in 2010. 308 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:22,680 And yet, six years after the operation, 309 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:25,480 when it's likely that he's no longer in pain, 310 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:29,040 he apparently suffers an overdose by painkillers. 311 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:32,560 So, why was he still taking them? 312 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:35,920 One theory is, is he was taking painkillers 313 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:39,560 to alleviate the discomfort of HIV infection. 314 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:43,640 Percocet is commonly prescribed to patients with that disease. 315 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:48,600 A shocking story is published after his death, saying Prince 316 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:53,800 was famous for his wild sex life and claiming that he died of AIDS. 317 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:00,360 I do know that he was a complete womaniser 318 00:21:00,360 --> 00:21:02,040 and that he loved women, for sure. 319 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:06,400 I think he had his times of being a one-woman guy 320 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:08,360 for a couple of months, here and there. 321 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:12,800 Women loved him. 322 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:18,120 He's a man, but with this clearly very strong feminine side. 323 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:23,800 Many of his lovers were budding artists. 324 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:27,840 He would write songs for them, push them in a certain direction. 325 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:32,640 I will say this. He was very respectful. 326 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:36,440 When I was with him, I got his complete, undivided attention. 327 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:38,920 It was very loving. 328 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:40,520 We were very close. It was very special. 329 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:46,400 Prince just exudes sexuality. 330 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:49,720 When anyone gets fame, one of the things they understand is 331 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:52,200 the ease of getting what you want. 332 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:57,080 I think, in Prince's case, having not had much success 333 00:21:57,080 --> 00:21:59,280 with relationships prior to the fame, 334 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:00,520 I think once he got that, 335 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:03,560 it's not surprising that he then went overboard. 336 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:09,720 People said, "Well, he had hundreds of lovers." 337 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:13,680 No, he had thousands of sexual encounters. 338 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:20,800 If Prince had unprotected sex with numerous partners, 339 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:24,480 his chances of contracting a sexually transmitted disease 340 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:27,400 like HIV rises significantly. 341 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:31,280 People with this disease can suffer from severe pain from nerve damage, 342 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:37,320 inflammation, pancreatitis, swollen joints and other various disorders. 343 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:41,560 Prince said he had the flu in the weeks prior to his death, 344 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:44,960 and people with AIDS oftentimes have flu-like symptoms. 345 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:48,120 They also can experience severe weight loss. 346 00:22:48,120 --> 00:22:53,240 And when he died, Prince only weighed 112 pounds. 347 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:57,240 And on top of that, his own sister Tyka said in an interview 348 00:22:57,240 --> 00:23:02,400 that Prince told her that he only had two more years to live. 349 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:07,600 But the AIDS theory isn't believed by everyone. 350 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:12,560 Prince being such a controlling guy, 351 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:17,640 it seems almost unimaginable to me that he would have unprotected sex. 352 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:22,000 There is no public evidence that supports the theory 353 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:25,200 that Prince suffered from HIV or AIDS. 354 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:29,640 If he was in the final stages of AIDS, he would have been far too 355 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:33,000 weak to perform onstage in days prior to his death. 356 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:37,080 So, I don't believe AIDS is the cause of his death, 357 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:38,920 but I need to understand 358 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:42,440 why he continued to take strong painkillers. 359 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:53,600 Five days before his death. 360 00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:58,960 The very next evening, after his painkiller overdose on the plane, 361 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:03,800 Prince appears to be strong enough to host a party as Paisley Park. 362 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:09,400 Everyone was waiting for Prince to come out, 363 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:11,960 to make sure everything was OK, 364 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:14,680 with the plane making an emergency landing. 365 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:17,280 And I think they were just kind of worried. 366 00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:20,760 But Prince appears to be fully recovered. 367 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:23,960 From my point of view, you know, he looked fine. 368 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:27,440 He looked great, just like the normal Prince. 369 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:31,400 These parties would start at 1:00 in the morning 370 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:33,120 and you never knew what he was going to do, 371 00:24:33,120 --> 00:24:37,000 but it was always very interesting because, 372 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:39,560 I think, he used that as his area 373 00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:43,760 of trying something new and getting feedback. 374 00:24:45,360 --> 00:24:46,920 When he's not touring, 375 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:51,280 Prince is writing and recording new material for his next album. 376 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:55,040 He had so many song ideas, he just never stopped recording. 377 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:57,680 He was in constant recording motion. 378 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,920 If I think about it, I would have to say Prince was a workaholic. 379 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:04,600 But I don't know about that word. 380 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:07,280 He just loved what he did and that was his passion 381 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:10,080 and he wanted to do it as much as he could. 382 00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:16,000 He used to rehearse so long, other musicians would be falling asleep. 383 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,760 Prince would stay up for days on end. 384 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:23,000 He had a 12-piece band and recording studio 385 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,280 on 24/7 notice. 386 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:29,960 The amplifiers in his recording studio were never turned off. 387 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:34,400 Some believe it was Prince's alleged cocaine addiction 388 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:36,600 that fuelled this relentless creativity. 389 00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:42,160 Cocaine gave him energy to the point that he would have 390 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:44,720 trouble falling asleep for days. 391 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:47,200 And the reason that he took 392 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:52,640 the Percocet was to come down from the euphoric high of the cocaine. 393 00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:57,280 What happens is the more habituated one gets to that kind of medication, 394 00:25:57,280 --> 00:26:00,560 the more they need and the more addicted they come to it 395 00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:03,400 both physiologically, but also psychologically. 396 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:07,880 And perhaps what we were seeing there is this dependence 397 00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:11,600 resulting from that kind of, that rhythm that he'd get into. 398 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:13,840 "This is what I use to kind of help me get up in the morning. 399 00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:15,600 This is what I use to help me get through my performance," 400 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:17,320 and it becomes almost Pavlovian. 401 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:20,200 It's just the thing that you do and you don't think about it. 402 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:24,720 What puzzles me is that Prince appears to have been able to 403 00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:27,480 control his drug use over the years. 404 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:33,760 So what happened, this time? 405 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:40,440 His close friend Judith Hill, who was with him when he was said to 406 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:44,840 have overdosed on the airplane, something she said afterwards 407 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:48,240 may help explain the events of that last evening. 408 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:53,560 Judith revealed that the supposed overdose really scared him 409 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:58,240 and that in the hospital that night, Prince swore to her 410 00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:01,000 that he would stop abusing painkillers. 411 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,520 For Prince, who'd kept his addiction 412 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:08,920 a dark secret for so many years, this was a major turning point. 413 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:15,880 Where there's secrecy, there's shame. 414 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:19,480 We very rarely keep secret things that we're proud of. 415 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,200 Under normal circumstances, keeping that to yourself 416 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:25,280 would be really hard. 417 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:30,080 But you've got to remember the kind of disparity of power 418 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:32,440 that he would have had with anyone else around him. 419 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:34,160 He was the Prince, right? 420 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:39,760 He was literally and metaphorically, in his world, royalty. 421 00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:43,040 So it seems unlikely there would have been too many people 422 00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:47,400 that would have challenged him or challenged his privacy, 423 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:51,480 challenged what they may have seen happening, because there 424 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:55,680 would have been this sense of, he's very much the leader here. 425 00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:59,560 If he was addicted to that, that would have been extremely 426 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:01,480 hard for him to accept. 427 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:05,760 You know, 'cause he was against any kind of addiction. 428 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:11,520 He felt it was weak if somebody was addicted to anything. 429 00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:15,080 He would have had a huge problem with that 430 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:16,840 and that coming out. 431 00:28:28,746 --> 00:28:31,226 Robbinsdale, Minnesota. 432 00:28:31,906 --> 00:28:33,546 The day before his death. 433 00:28:34,746 --> 00:28:38,186 Prince visits his regular physician Doctor Schulenberg, 434 00:28:38,186 --> 00:28:40,346 who runs some tests on him. 435 00:28:46,386 --> 00:28:48,626 The safe shot that Prince was given 436 00:28:48,626 --> 00:28:52,026 wiped the effects of the drug out of his system. 437 00:28:53,186 --> 00:28:54,346 So a few days later, 438 00:28:54,346 --> 00:28:58,106 when Doctor Schulenberg's tests came back completely clean, 439 00:28:58,106 --> 00:29:02,386 that suggests that he was committed to remaining drug-free. 440 00:29:06,826 --> 00:29:09,826 On the same day, one of Prince's assistants 441 00:29:09,826 --> 00:29:11,866 calls a number in California. 442 00:29:13,266 --> 00:29:17,066 She reaches out to a Doctor Howard Kornfeld and asks that 443 00:29:17,066 --> 00:29:19,426 he come quickly to Paisley Park. 444 00:29:20,746 --> 00:29:23,466 Doctor Kornfeld is unable to travel immediately, 445 00:29:23,466 --> 00:29:27,746 so he sends his son Andrew, an addiction recovery consultant. 446 00:29:27,746 --> 00:29:31,626 He will arrive the following morning. 447 00:29:31,626 --> 00:29:35,546 This phone call to an addiction specialist strongly suggests that 448 00:29:35,546 --> 00:29:37,626 Prince was seriously 449 00:29:37,626 --> 00:29:42,426 addicted to painkillers and that he was determined to kick the habit. 450 00:29:44,986 --> 00:29:46,866 Wednesday night: 451 00:29:51,106 --> 00:29:53,986 Eight hours before his death. 452 00:29:54,826 --> 00:29:56,946 That night, Prince dines alone. 453 00:29:58,466 --> 00:30:03,226 His chef later tells police that he looked pale and unwell. 454 00:30:05,346 --> 00:30:10,266 Thursday, April 21, 2016. 455 00:30:10,266 --> 00:30:13,266 According to reports, the following morning, 456 00:30:13,266 --> 00:30:15,346 Prince is nowhere to be found. 457 00:30:15,346 --> 00:30:19,546 Andrew Kornfeld arrives from Los Angeles. 458 00:30:19,546 --> 00:30:22,786 He joins Prince's assistants in searching for him. 459 00:30:26,066 --> 00:30:28,746 When they head towards his private apartment, 460 00:30:28,746 --> 00:30:30,746 they get a terrible shock. 461 00:30:32,826 --> 00:30:36,146 Prince lies unconscious in the elevator. 462 00:30:38,546 --> 00:30:41,466 He's not breathing and has no pulse. 463 00:30:44,346 --> 00:30:46,786 Kornfeld calls 911. 464 00:30:53,826 --> 00:30:56,346 When the emergency services arrive, 465 00:30:56,346 --> 00:30:58,546 they find Prince unresponsive. 466 00:31:01,266 --> 00:31:03,786 Prince is pronounced dead. 467 00:31:03,786 --> 00:31:07,706 they estimate he has been dead for at least six hours. 468 00:31:09,826 --> 00:31:13,066 Good day. We are coming on the air with breaking news about the death 469 00:31:13,066 --> 00:31:14,826 of an American music icon. 470 00:31:14,826 --> 00:31:18,546 Prince, the innovative, one-of-a-kind artist who's 471 00:31:18,546 --> 00:31:23,866 given us so much great music over the decades, has been found dead. 472 00:31:23,866 --> 00:31:28,106 Investigators find no evidence of foul play. 473 00:31:28,106 --> 00:31:32,626 There were no obvious signs of trauma on the body at all. 474 00:31:32,626 --> 00:31:33,986 And there is a growing memorial 475 00:31:33,986 --> 00:31:36,546 outside Prince's Minneapolis area home 476 00:31:36,546 --> 00:31:39,626 as others are sharing their grief on social media tonight. 477 00:31:40,266 --> 00:31:42,626 It freaked me out when I heard it 478 00:31:42,626 --> 00:31:46,146 and then when I heard the circumstances of how he died, 479 00:31:46,146 --> 00:31:48,826 it completely shocked the hell out of me. 480 00:31:48,826 --> 00:31:54,546 When it actually hit me that he had passed away, I was just... 481 00:31:57,506 --> 00:32:02,106 It felt like just a part of me, my childhood, 482 00:32:02,106 --> 00:32:07,866 my life stories just gone, you know. 483 00:32:07,866 --> 00:32:10,826 I mean, he was my first love, so... 484 00:32:12,626 --> 00:32:16,306 When Prince died, you know, the whole world went into shock. 485 00:32:16,906 --> 00:32:19,426 The reaction around the world was incredible. 486 00:32:19,426 --> 00:32:23,906 Whole cities bathing the streets in purple. 487 00:32:23,906 --> 00:32:26,426 There was no way for anybody to get their head around it. 488 00:32:26,426 --> 00:32:32,106 He was 57, far too young to die of natural causes, 489 00:32:32,106 --> 00:32:37,826 there wasn't any record of illness or addiction, there were no events 490 00:32:37,826 --> 00:32:41,346 car crashes or anything like that he just seemed to die. 491 00:32:41,346 --> 00:32:47,106 And, I think, people found it shocking, tragic, mysterious 492 00:32:47,106 --> 00:32:50,506 and utterly bewildering. 493 00:32:50,506 --> 00:32:54,906 While the world anxiously awaits the results of Prince's autopsy, 494 00:32:54,906 --> 00:32:59,866 speculation runs wild as to how and why he died so suddenly. 495 00:33:02,826 --> 00:33:05,866 On that last evening, there were no witnesses, 496 00:33:05,866 --> 00:33:08,986 so what actually happened can only be surmised. 497 00:33:11,226 --> 00:33:12,906 He was increasingly frail. 498 00:33:12,906 --> 00:33:16,226 He was very thin. He was very troubled and he was alone. 499 00:33:16,866 --> 00:33:20,426 He had people that did everything for him. 500 00:33:20,426 --> 00:33:22,906 There was always someone there. 501 00:33:22,906 --> 00:33:25,866 And if the incident on the plane happened just before that, 502 00:33:25,866 --> 00:33:28,626 why was he left alone after that? 503 00:33:28,626 --> 00:33:30,786 That, I do not understand. 504 00:33:31,986 --> 00:33:36,186 According to Prince's chef, who was the last person to see him alive, 505 00:33:36,186 --> 00:33:38,146 Prince looked unwell. 506 00:33:38,146 --> 00:33:43,386 He said that in the last few months, Prince always had the flu or a cold. 507 00:33:43,386 --> 00:33:46,706 He hardly ate and drank very little water. 508 00:33:49,986 --> 00:33:51,186 The symptoms described by the chef 509 00:33:51,186 --> 00:33:56,266 loss of appetite, persistent aches and pains, headache, cramps 510 00:33:56,266 --> 00:33:59,506 these can be caused by a lot of disorders. 511 00:33:59,506 --> 00:34:01,466 But there are a couple of other things here 512 00:34:01,466 --> 00:34:04,186 that lead me to believe that he could have been suffering 513 00:34:04,186 --> 00:34:06,466 from severe depression. 514 00:34:06,466 --> 00:34:11,586 A Paisley Park employee reportedly finds a suicide note and in it, 515 00:34:11,586 --> 00:34:16,546 he claims that Prince said that he needs to stop the pain, 516 00:34:16,546 --> 00:34:21,706 even if it means ending everything and that it was time for him to go. 517 00:34:21,706 --> 00:34:23,426 If this is to be believed, 518 00:34:23,426 --> 00:34:26,586 what I need to understand is, what pain is he referring to? 519 00:34:31,959 --> 00:34:34,679 At Prince's funeral, his former girlfriend, 520 00:34:34,679 --> 00:34:38,319 Anna Fantastic, receives some shocking news. 521 00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:46,159 I heard from a family member 522 00:34:46,159 --> 00:34:49,679 that he may have had early onset Alzheimer's. 523 00:34:53,399 --> 00:34:57,759 They said he was using the monitor onstage already for his lyrics. 524 00:34:59,759 --> 00:35:03,239 He was having problems even remembering certain 525 00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:05,479 parts on the guitar. 526 00:35:05,479 --> 00:35:08,319 That would definitely be devastating to him 527 00:35:08,319 --> 00:35:11,319 and he wouldn't be able to take that, as a person. 528 00:35:14,399 --> 00:35:17,599 There are many cases of people taking their own lives 529 00:35:17,599 --> 00:35:21,239 when confronted with the prospect of such a harrowing decline. 530 00:35:26,039 --> 00:35:28,759 The suicide theory does not convince me. 531 00:35:28,759 --> 00:35:32,239 If Prince was so depressed that he took his own life, 532 00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:36,319 would he have taken such firm steps to kick his drug habit? 533 00:35:36,959 --> 00:35:41,159 And on the last evening, he was waiting for addiction specialist 534 00:35:41,159 --> 00:35:45,239 who was due to arrive the following morning, so would he have flown him 535 00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:49,479 all the way from Los Angeles, if he was contemplating suicide? 536 00:35:51,399 --> 00:35:53,239 I don't believe he took his own life 537 00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:56,479 and neither does the Sheriff's Office. 538 00:35:56,479 --> 00:35:58,959 We have no reason to believe, at this time, it's a suicide. 539 00:35:58,959 --> 00:36:01,399 The rest of it's under investigation. 540 00:36:01,399 --> 00:36:04,239 It then emerges that the person who 541 00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:08,479 claimed to find the suicide note never showed it to anyone. 542 00:36:08,479 --> 00:36:11,439 So its existence cannot be verified. 543 00:36:12,599 --> 00:36:16,759 Finally, six weeks later, the Medical Examiner reveals 544 00:36:16,759 --> 00:36:19,199 the actual cause of Prince's death. 545 00:36:21,399 --> 00:36:25,319 Prince died of an overdose from the powerful painkiller Fentanyl. 546 00:36:25,319 --> 00:36:29,159 Fentanyl is nearly 100 times stronger than morphine and nearly 547 00:36:29,159 --> 00:36:32,039 50 times stronger than heroin. 548 00:36:32,039 --> 00:36:35,239 It targets the brain's reward system by flooding the circuits 549 00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:38,879 with dopamine, a feel-good hormone. 550 00:36:38,879 --> 00:36:41,839 This produces a euphoric affect. 551 00:36:41,839 --> 00:36:44,159 But an overdose of Fentanyl is lethal. 552 00:36:44,159 --> 00:36:48,599 It depresses the respiratory system and can cause death by slowing down 553 00:36:48,599 --> 00:36:50,799 breathing until it stops. 554 00:36:52,879 --> 00:36:56,319 Prince appeared to be very serious about kicking his drug habit. 555 00:36:56,319 --> 00:36:59,879 So why did he take this extremely strong painkiller? 556 00:37:02,319 --> 00:37:07,399 The symptoms described by Prince's chef could provide another clue. 557 00:37:07,399 --> 00:37:08,959 Those symptoms suggest that Prince 558 00:37:08,959 --> 00:37:11,879 could have been suffering from drug withdrawal 559 00:37:11,879 --> 00:37:14,679 and the clean shot cleaned his system 560 00:37:14,679 --> 00:37:16,959 of the effects of the narcotics 561 00:37:16,959 --> 00:37:22,679 and he was taking positive steps to kick his alleged drug habit. 562 00:37:22,679 --> 00:37:26,399 So by the time that he has his last meal, 563 00:37:26,399 --> 00:37:29,039 he may have gone a week without drugs. 564 00:37:30,839 --> 00:37:34,599 The fever, nausea and cramps that he was experiencing according to 565 00:37:34,599 --> 00:37:36,679 the chef may have caused him 566 00:37:36,679 --> 00:37:42,759 to relapse and reach for what he thought was a familiar painkiller. 567 00:37:42,759 --> 00:37:46,319 Except that, apparently, the branded pills that he took 568 00:37:46,319 --> 00:37:48,799 were not what they appeared to be. 569 00:38:20,319 --> 00:38:23,959 A report claims that when the police processed the crime scene 570 00:38:23,959 --> 00:38:27,479 after Prince's death, they find a number of hidden bottles 571 00:38:27,479 --> 00:38:30,479 of over-the-counter vitamins and aspirins 572 00:38:30,479 --> 00:38:32,679 which they send away for analysis. 573 00:38:35,199 --> 00:38:38,319 When the results come back, they are shocking. 574 00:38:38,319 --> 00:38:40,399 The innocent-looking bottles 575 00:38:40,399 --> 00:38:45,279 contained extremely powerful painkillers, including Fentanyl. 576 00:38:46,479 --> 00:38:49,319 Fentanyl is so strong and so addictive, 577 00:38:49,319 --> 00:38:54,679 no responsible physician would ever give anyone an open-ended supply. 578 00:38:54,679 --> 00:38:56,759 It was reported that the investigation 579 00:38:56,759 --> 00:39:00,159 into Prince's death showed that he had no prescriptions 580 00:39:00,159 --> 00:39:03,039 of any controlled substances in the state of Minnesota 581 00:39:03,039 --> 00:39:05,639 for the 12 months prior to his death. 582 00:39:05,639 --> 00:39:07,559 So if true, 583 00:39:07,559 --> 00:39:11,759 he must have obtained these falsely branded pills illegally. 584 00:39:13,479 --> 00:39:16,679 To avoid detection, these illegal painkillers 585 00:39:16,679 --> 00:39:21,279 are disguised as innocent-looking name brand aspirin and vitamins. 586 00:39:22,039 --> 00:39:26,399 As little as two milligrams of Fentanyl can be lethal. 587 00:39:26,399 --> 00:39:29,879 But those who make it illegally are not meticulous about how much 588 00:39:29,879 --> 00:39:32,039 goes into each pill. 589 00:39:32,039 --> 00:39:35,799 Prince's cause of death statement shows that he died from a Fentanyl 590 00:39:35,799 --> 00:39:41,239 overdose and according to reports, his levels were extremely high. 591 00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:45,839 Having managed his alleged drug habit for so long, 592 00:39:45,839 --> 00:39:48,239 Prince would have known his drugs 593 00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:51,119 and the dosages that he could tolerate. 594 00:39:52,679 --> 00:39:55,759 Therefore, I think that Prince probably 595 00:39:55,759 --> 00:40:00,319 didn't know that the pills he took that night had Fentanyl in them. 596 00:40:00,319 --> 00:40:06,679 I believe Prince died from a tragic accident, bordering on homicide. 597 00:40:07,879 --> 00:40:12,159 Sadly, in the United States, fatal overdoses from powerful painkillers 598 00:40:12,159 --> 00:40:14,679 are increasing exponentially. 599 00:40:16,319 --> 00:40:20,119 It's important to point out that the making and distribution 600 00:40:20,119 --> 00:40:24,559 of Fentanyl sold under the guise of another prescription medication, 601 00:40:24,559 --> 00:40:28,639 leading to death, can be considered murder. 602 00:40:32,159 --> 00:40:37,319 I think Prince's legacy is that dreams come true. 603 00:40:37,319 --> 00:40:41,919 He came from nothing. He had nothing and became so successful. 604 00:40:43,479 --> 00:40:47,439 And, I think, it proves that you can...we're capable of doing 605 00:40:47,439 --> 00:40:51,959 and becoming anything we want, if we work hard enough. 606 00:40:51,959 --> 00:40:53,919 He brought everybody together. 607 00:40:53,919 --> 00:40:57,319 You know, it didn't matter what age or race you were. 608 00:40:59,399 --> 00:41:05,639 His music is going to last for a long, long, long time. 609 00:41:05,639 --> 00:41:10,599 Prince burned brighter and longer than most pop artists. 610 00:41:10,599 --> 00:41:15,199 He brought pleasure to millions of fans around the world. 611 00:41:15,199 --> 00:41:20,119 But as he famously sang in his hit song '1999', 612 00:41:20,119 --> 00:41:25,479 "Life is just a party and parties weren't meant to last." 613 00:41:25,479 --> 00:41:28,479 Captioned by Ai-Media ai-media.tv