Anna Nicole Smith's Prescription Drugs Numbered in High Teens Before Death

By PopEater / Wire Services Posted Sep 8th 2010 07:50AM

A second nanny testifying at the drug conspiracy trial of Anna Nicole Smith's two doctors and lawyer-boyfriend said Tuesday that she kept a list of drugs given to the model and that it numbered 18 at one point.

Nadine Alexie told the jury that she was vigilant about the medications Smith was taking because she was then studying to be a pharmacy technician. She made lists of drugs Smith was taking, she said, and one such list displayed in court Tuesday showed 18 different medications that included multiple sedatives and opiates.

She said Smith's boyfriend, Howard K. Stern, and Dr. Khristine Eroshevich told her Smith was sick, but she remembered times when Smith was not medicated and seemed fine.

"She would be talking to you and smiling. She would dance," Alexie recalled. "We would talk and watch TV and read the Bible together."

She also remembered a time when Smith was so involved in making a baby book for her newborn daughter that she refused Stern's orders to take her medication.

Alexie said Stern regularly prompted Smith to take an array of pills left by Eroshevich. After taking the drugs, Smith "would be groggy and drowsy, her speech would be slurred," Alexie said.

Sometimes, she said, Smith became too weak to hold her baby.

Alexie was one of two former nannies who cared for the model and her then-infant daughter in the last months of Smith's life before her drug overdose death. Quethlie Alexie, Nadine's sister-in-law, also worked for Smith for more than three months in the Bahamas.

The two nannies testified in the drug conspiracy trial of Stern, Eroshevich and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, all of whom have pleaded not guilty. They are not charged with causing Smith's death in 2007.

Both nannies gave similar accounts of finding bloody syringes and cotton balls, and sometimes a burned spoon with liquid, inside a bathroom at the Bahamas home where Smith was staying. Quethlie Alexie testified that she saw Stern and Eroshevich take the model into the bathroom and that when they came out, she saw the syringes and other items.

She also said that after Smith emerged from the bathroom, "she was like, drunk." Alexie, who testified through a Creole interpreter, said Smith "was unable to walk, falling, and was unable to handle her talking. She would laugh."

Alexie, who acknowledged she speaks and understands English but is more comfortable in the Creole dialect, said she did not see what happened in the bathroom because "they had the door closed. I didn't know what went on in there." Nadine Alexie said she also was kept out of the bathroom, but that she saw the same items.

Prosecutors allege that Smith was being injected with excessive amounts of opiates and sedatives. Quethlie Alexie testified that before the three went into the bathroom, "(Stern) would say, 'Baby, come and we'll take our medicine.'"

She described finding "ashes from fire" on the bathroom counter and matches or a lighter. Sometimes, she said she found a spoon with liquid and "cotton you would use for a shot."

She said it had blood on it, as did syringes she found.

Smith was weak and suffering from bouts of diarrhea and vomiting during that period, Alexie testified, and the model was consumed by grief over the death of her son, Daniel, just after she gave birth to a daughter in September 2006.

Before Eroshevich arrived, Alexie said Smith could not sleep. She said that after the doctor arrived, Smith "would sleep all day. In the middle of her speaking, she would sleep."

Outside the jury's presence, defense attorneys complained about arrangements by prosecutors to bring not only the nannies, but other family members to Los Angeles to stay in a hotel with them. The group included one husband and six children ranging in age from two to 17.

Deputy District Attorney Renee Rose said she also agreed to relocate at least one of the nannies to a new apartment in the Bahamas and to pay the moving costs, as well as the first and last month's rent. She said it was done for security reasons but did not specify what those were.

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Wednesday 08 September

By LRSCM

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She was an addict who continuted to use drugs while pregnant. Please tell me why anyone cares about this waste of human flesh? I don't care how pretty she was, she was a stripper, bad mother, and bad human being. Name one good thing she ever did in life. Just one.

By Melissa

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Her beautiful little girl!

By k

Waste of human flesh?? She made bad choices, as we all do...and Im pretty sure, LRSCM, that you are glad that YOUR life is not on camera, because your flesh was probably "wasted" more times than none. Stop judging folks...look in the mirror at your own self, and be concerned of how YOU live your life.

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Maybe people care about her because not everyone judges others so pitefully and hatefully. She was lost and needed help, and clearly manipulated by others. She was very generous with her time and money to charities throughout her career. What good have YOU done with YOUR life when not spreading hate?

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One less piece of crap sucking up oxygen.

By Heather

Howard Stern, you DESERVE to FRY IN HELL! How could you do this? Anna might have had her problems, but someone forcing drugs on someone that already has problems is SO evil. Hopefully, she found her peace in the next life with her boy, the only person who loved her.

By kk

Anna Nicole Smith gave her son Daniel ecstasy and methadone. She killed her own son. ANNA NICOLE SMITH WILL ROT IN HELL FOR WHAT SHE DID. Larry Birkhead said at the Daniel Smith's Inquest that Anna gave her son ecstasy and methadone and "would prefer that Daniel do drugs in her presence instaed of running around experimenting with his friends." She was a bad mother, bad wife and brutal gold-digger who married a man aged 90 for his billions. She cheated on J.Howard Marshall with a bodyguard in her husband's home. Mother who gave her son drugs is a Devil not a victim. Why was Daniel on antdepressants? Why was he depressed? She destroyed his whole life with her shameful behavior.

No one forced Anna Nicole to do anything. You can't force a pregnant woman to stay loaded all day long. She CHOSE to medicate herself. She also CHOSE to supply her son with drugs. Yes she had help and they should pay for their roles they played but she was the only one to blame for what happened to her.

Thursday 09 September

By barbie

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If she didn't have these suppliers giving her anything she wanted she might not be dead today!

Saturday 11 September

By kitty

anna nicole is dead an it's not our place to judge her GOD is the one who has that right. Anna Nicole was human and made alot of mistakes in her life i liked anna nicole and i am sorry she died these ppl who helped her stay a addict instead of getting her help should go to jail.R.I.P ANNA

Sunday 12 September

By Mikhael

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