Whitney Houston's
official cause of death was due to accidental drowning, the Los Angeles County
coroner's office confirmed Thursday.
The singer, 48,
was also found to have cocaine in her system. Contributing factors of her death
included heart disease and cocaine use, an investigation found. The report also
found that Houston had marijuana, Xanax, Benadryl and other medication in her
system.
"There was
water found in her lungs that indicated to us that she was alive when she was
submerged underwater," coroner chief Craig Harvey tells us.
"According to our tests, the level of cocaine was not necessarily a lethal
level of cocaine. But her death was complicated by chronic cocaine use and
heart disease."
Coroner assistant
chief Ed Winter says the circumstances of Houston's death come down to two
likely scenarios.
"She could've
passed out first due to the intoxication from the cocaine, or she could've had
a heart attack and then drowned," Winter says. "It's probably one of
those two scenarios."
Houston was found
unresponsive and underwater in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Feb.
11, a day before the Grammy Awards, and was pronounced dead at the scene soon
afterward.
Coroner officials
previously confirmed that prescription pill bottles were found in her room, but
the number of pills were "not in alarming amounts."
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