Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images; Danny Moloshok / Reuters; Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images; Ning Chiu/ZUMApress.comAnna Nicole Smith was on a ton of drugs at the time of her death. That much we've known for ages.
But we've never heard her addiction phrased quite like pharmacist Ira Freeman put it today, when he took the stand in the hearing to determine whether the star's lawyer/lover Howard K. Stern and Drs. Khristine Eroshevich and Sandeep Kapoor should go to trial for their 23 combined felony drug charges.
When Kapoor faxed the owner of Key Pharmacy in Valley Village an order for six different prescriptions, the dosages for two of them were "way out of whack," Freeman said in court today.
"This is crazy," he claims he told Kapoor. "This is pharmaceutical suicide."
"For me, the first red flag was the dosage levels of Soma and Dalmane," he explained. He became concerned the medications would lead to "fatal consequences" and consulted a colleague with expertise in the field, who agreed the prescriptions were "way out of line."
The pill man testified that he spoke to Eroshevich and refused to fill the order. He urged his expert pal to speak to her directly, and he told her to "forget the paparazzi," take Smith to the hospital and get her antiseizure meds and a defibrillator in case her heart stopped.
Another pharmacist, Olga Kopetman from Ralphs pharmacy, is up next. The star's baby daddy, Larry Birkhead, gave his testimony earlier this week.
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Keep up with all the dirty laundry—and we're talkin' dirty—being aired out in the courtroom right here.