The 20-year-old son of Anna Nicole Smith died suddenly in the Bahamas on Sunday, three days after the former Playboy Playmate gave birth to a girl, Smith's attorney said. How devastating, and I cannot even imagine the emotional rollercoaster that she must be on right now. Reuters reports:
A statement from Howard K. Stern, Anna Nicole Smith's attorney, did not provide any details of Daniel Smith's death, and he declined to comment when contacted by Reuters."We have yet to learn the cause of death but do not believe that drugs or alcohol were a factor," Stern said in the statement. "Anna Nicole is absolutely devastated by the loss of her son. He was her pride and joy and an amazing human being."
Daniel Smith was in the Caribbean nation where his mother, 38, gave birth to a healthy girl on Thursday, Stern said.
Unbelievably devestating. Hopefully, she'll be able to make it through this tragedy.
The message that is posted on Anna Nicole Smith's website is after the jump.
Written by Lauren Burch
In Loving Memory
DANIEL WAYNE SMITH
1/22/1986 - 9/10/2006
On September 7th Anna Nicole gave birth to a healthy 6 pound, 9 ounce baby girl. Her son Daniel was in the Bahamas with her to share in the joy of his baby sister when he passed away suddenly on the morning of September 10th. We have yet to learn the cause of death but do not believe that drugs or alcohol were a factor.
Anna Nicole is absolutely devastated by the loss of her son. He was her pride and joy and an amazing human being. Please do not make any press inquiries at this time so that Anna Nicole can grieve in peace.
JaneSays says:
That is so sad. People can say whatever they want about her but her love for her son was more than apparent during her show and she always spoke so highly of him. You could really see that she enjoyed being his mom and I hope she can get through this terrible time in her life. My heart goes out to her; I cannot imagine losing my son.
Lisa says:
That is awful, just awful. I will pray for her.
Brittany says:
that's awful. you could tell he was a good kid on her show.
miss_marple says:
Used to watch her show and actually found it entertaining. It seemed that her son was a steady presence in her life.
I sincerely hope she's on suicide watch, because post pregnancy hormones can be hell for weeks.
I wonder though, a 20 year old doesn't die suddenly, unless there were maybe unknown health issues (heart?). Or, maybe there were other issues we don't know about. I heard it was indeed hard for him to deal with being her son sometimes.
Anyway, god bless them.
softbreeze says:
My guess is he died from a brain aneurysm. Very sad and sudden....he was so young and finally had a little sister....
GirlyGIRL says:
This sucks. She is a complete whack-a-doo, but christ- I cannot fathom of swinging from one of the best days of your life, to one of the worst 3 days later.
God bless her, and that little baby girl.
LRM216 says:
There are just no words when speaking of the death of one's child.... may God bless her.