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A day after the Los Angeles coroner's office concluded that 32-year-old Brittany Murphy died of pneumonia -- with multiple drug intoxication and "iron deficiency anemia" playing a role -- her husband today said he was shocked.
Simon Monjack said he expected the cause of his wife's death to be attributed to complications from her longstanding heart condition. Murphy had been diagnosed with a heart murmur as a teen.
Monjack seemed almost skeptical of the coroner's report, telling CNN that Murphy didn't seem very ill when she died.
"She wasn't coughing up," he said. "I've had pneumonia and coughed up handfuls of spittle. So yeah, everything surprised us, everything."
