Larry Birkhead: Howard K. Stern Said Anna Nicole Smith 'Needed Methadone to Live'

By PopEater Staff Posted Aug 19th 2010 09:59PM

Larry Birkhead, former boyfriend of Anna Nicole Smith and father of their little girl, testified Thursday in the case against Howard K. Stern and two doctors accused of unlawfully plying Smith with prescription drugs, the Associated Press reports. During his testimony, Birkhead revealed that he witnessed the reality star take many medications during their relationship though she claimed she wasn't an addict.

"She would say, 'I'm in pain. I'm not a drug addict,'" he recalled. When he asked her if she was possibly taking too many medications, she said, "I have a high tolerance because I'm in pain."

Birkhead met Smith in 2004 and the two moved in together soon after. He said when they lived together, he saw Methadone, Topamax, Vicadin, Ambien, Valium, Chlonopin and other drugs around Smith's Los Angeles home according to E!Online.

Smith's former boyfriend also revealed that he was so concerned about the number of drugs she was taking, that he at one point, he hid her Methadone. Stern reprimanded him and told him that Smith "needed the methadone to live." After hearing that, Birkhead said he never hid her medications again, saying he, "didn't want anything to happen to her after [Stern] said she needed it to live."

Stern, Dr. Khristine Eroshevich and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor have all pleaded not guilty to conspiring to unlawfully provide excessive drugs to Smith, prescribing to an addict and obtaining false prescriptions involving the use of fake names. But they are not charged with causing her overdose death in 2007.

Birkhead took the stand late Thursday and is expected to continue his testimony on Friday.

Tags: anna nicole smith, Howard K. Stern, larry birkhead

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Thursday 19 August

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Friday 20 August

By Bella

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Unfortunately, if Anna lived then Larry would still be fighting to visit his child. If Anna and Howard stayed in the Bahamas little DanniLynne would still have Stern as her last name and never know her real father. I'm sorry Anna died but I'm glad that Larry has custody and the child is living a normal life with him.

By Ursula

First off.....this journalist CAN'T spell!!! We live in the dynamic age of spell check....where no one has to appear ignorant...it is VICODIN and KLONOPIN or Clonazepam! Sheesh! Where did you receive your journalism degree? Mickey Mouse University? OY VEY

By motherbird

See !!! there is a GOD. So happy her real father fought for her. Stern was fighting for the money. As far as Anna goes,yes she did need the drugs that killed her. just like any good drug addict.

By JP

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Pop Eater needs an editor or a fact checker. The dancing with the stars poll should say Troy Aikman, not Aiken... unless they wanted to say Clay (Aiken).

By mike

Oy,Vey? Who wound you up Ursula?

By HorseAngels

These people need a proofreader or at least a spellchecker because methadone is spelled with a lower case "m,", Vicodin is with an "o" between the "c" and "d" not an "a" like they have, and Klonopin is spelled with a "K" not the "Ch" they have here.

By ursula

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YES! Finally....someone else who CAN spell ! Can you imagine sending out this article with NO proof reading before hand? This journalist is a hack! Pop-Eater should spend a couple of bucks on a proof reader....no?

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By Sarita Lopez

Is too bad Ana Nicole Smith had to die, But from Heavens she can see that her child is in excellent hands, Larry is a good father, he will make sure that the little girl will have a good life, Larry thankyou for beeing there for the little angel, God Bless you!!!

By Tamra

I will always believe Anna's son Daniel died from taking Methadone because if one does not have a tolerance to Methadone, a dose of say 50 mg. is lethal. When given in a clinic, they begin patients at a dose of around 30 mg. or perhaps less and then slowly increase. Danny probably took a swig if it was in liquid form and who knows how many milligrams that may have been the equivalent to? And I think Anna herself or Howard Stern gave it to Daniel.

Anna would never give Daniel an overdose. Stern did it to get Daniel out of the way. Nice fella this Stern guy.

By chill

I'm sorry, but I believe the Drs were bought by Anna. Thats why she got what she wanted.. Howard Stern wanted her to be controled by the drugs so he could do what he wanted to do with her money.. I was supposed to be on the jury but I was with pre judgement.. My mom died at the hands of Drs over perscribing meds.

By Judith

I think she was 'in pain' because of those huge breast implants. I read somewhere that's what it was. Too bad she couldn't have had them removed...

By mark

How can there be TWO Howard Sterns? ONE is too many.

By swq

anna's bodyguard, "big moe" saied that larry birkhead gave anna nicole ecstasy, alcohol and cocaine even when she was pregnant. birkhead said during daniel smith's inquest that anna gave her son ecstasy and methadone because she "would prefer that he use drugs in her presence." there are no "heroes" in anna's saga. anna and her friends wanted money without work. birkhead was no exception. anna died because of her bad behavior.

By Katie

Wondering if all of the spelling experts out there have the bottles in front of them so they can get the proper spelling of the meds. Most of us who don't use them have no reason to know how to spell them properly.

By Carole Hock

Katie- it's not so much that we need a reason to know how to spell the meds correctly, it's imperative that journalists or anyone that makes writing their career should at the very least know how to spell everything correctly. I just can't wrap my brain around the amount of people that can't spell. Spelling is one of the most basic life skills. They should not even be allowed to graduate high school if they cannot spell.

Saturday 21 August

By Sexy Mama

True, but if I were making a living writing, I would use spell check before submitting an article.

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