Hollywood Broke Brittany Murphy's Heart, Says Husband

Simon Monjack and Sharon Murphy visit Larry King Live to discuss actress's sudden death

For the family members of young Hollywood starlet Brittany Murphy, her tragic death is still too difficult to comprehend.

The actress's husband, Simon Monjack, and mother, Sharon Murphy, opened up on a recent visit to Larry King Live, and the grieving pair are leaning on each other to get through this trying time.

"It's like a rebirth. There's not enough time—your dreams, be they good or bad, when you wake up and I reach out to touch or hold my wife, she isn't there," Monjack relayed to King when asked how he's coping since Murphy's passing.

After being with the star at the time of her death, Sharon and Monjack have developed a somber bond."Sharon and I were holding each other. And they let us know at the same time that she hadn't made it," he explained.

"But we knew before that," recalled Murphy. "You felt her life go out of her."

And while speculation surrounding Murphy's passing is still rampant, Monjack has his own explanation: "You want to know what broke Brittany Murphy's heart? Hollywood broke Brittany Murphy's heart."

In a separate interview with People last week, Sharon, too, maintains the sobriety of her late daughter, claiming she died because of a congenital heart murmur.

"She never even drank. Maybe a glass of champagne at New Year's," she tells the publication. "But everyone used to say she was wasted, she was this, she was that. It was hard for anyone to imagine that somebody was so high on life."

Monjack concurs, asking: "Do you not think anybody would have picked up on this anorexic, mentally deranged person? It's ludicrous."

Sharon and Monjack's full interview can been seen on CNN's staple this Wednesday.