In 2009, the Los Angeles Fire Department received a call from a woman reporting that she had just found her daughter, Brittany, passed out in their home on Rising Glen Road. Just two hours after that, Hollywood actress Brittany Murphy is declared dead. In this episode, Sara sits down with former journalist Amber Ryland, who was the first journalist to receive access to Simon Monjack after the death of his wife, Brittany Murphy. Sara and Amber walk listeners through the mysterious cause of Brittany Murphy’s death, how Amber felt having such early access to Monjack, and the pressures Brittany was subjected to during her lifetime.
