The demise of Lucy-Bleu Knight has been dominated a suicide, in accordance with the Los Angeles County medical expert.
In a Thursday assertion, the medical expert’s workplace stated that the 25-year-old — the daughter of Slash’s girlfriend, Meegan Hodges — died final month from hydrogen sulfide toxicity. The method of demise was suicide.
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Hydrogen sulfide is a colorless, flammable, extremely poisonous fuel with the odor of rotten eggs. The CDC’s Company for Poisonous Substances and Illness Registry says publicity to it can lead to extraordinarily fast unconsciousness and demise.
Knight was discovered unresponsive in a personal residence on July 19 by regulation enforcement, who have been conducting a welfare test, the medical expert’s workplace stated. She was pronounced useless at 3 p.m. that day. A deputy medical expert examined her physique July 22 — the day after her household introduced her demise on social media — and her reason behind demise was licensed by the coroner Thursday. A full report is anticipated to be prepared by Sept. 10, the workplace stated.
Weapons N’ Roses rocker Slash, whose actual title is Saul Hudson, and Hodges posted an identical statements on July 21 asserting Knight’s demise on social media. In it, they requested a restrict to hypothesis about her demise.
Hours after the household posted the assertion, a cryptic submit went up on Knight’s Instagram account that fueled hypothesis about its timing and the character of her demise within the missive’s remark part.
“Whether or not I made you’re feeling excluded, manipulated/ managed you, advised you to stop your day job from the consolation of being financially supported by my mother and father, or drowned actual points in poisonous positivity – I’m sorry,” the submit stated. “Numerous missed alternatives and connections on account of a disgustingly large ego, insecure coronary heart and concern of being weak. Might my soul study to evolve from my poor job at being Lucy-Bleu. Peace.”
Slash, 59, shares sons London and Money, who’re additionally musicians, with ex-wife Perla Ferrar. The heavy-metal rocker and Hodges dated within the late Eighties and reportedly rekindled their romance after he filed for divorce from Ferrar in 2014. (He and Ferrar finalized their break up in 2018.)
London Hudson — a member of the band Return to Mud — not too long ago devoted the group’s tour with Chevelle to Knight, whom he memorialized on his Instagam grid.
Final Saturday, Hodges posted a tribute to her daughter and thanked her followers for the outpouring of affection and condolences.
“You might have touched all of our hearts as Lucy-Bleu has touched yours. She’s going to endlessly be missed however by no means forgotten,” she wrote on Instagram. “It’s not possible to neglect Lucy-Bleu with all the sunshine and vitality she had on this planet. I like you my child woman.”
On Friday, she stated that Thursday was one of many worst days in her grieving and therapeutic journey.
“I wakened considering every thing of hers is disappearing,” she wrote on Instagram tales. “Her odor, her artwork, issues I can’t discover of hers that imply a lot to me. Her bodily being is gone. This ache is is [sic] terrible. It’s the more serious [sic] feeling one might really feel. I do know I’ve to get by means of this ache until it’s rather less within the day or doesn’t final as lengthy. Some days are simply absolutely the worse [sic]. For all of you that attain out to me and ask if I need to go for a stroll or speak or distract me… Hold asking. I’ll be down for one thing hopefully quickly. Right this moment I pray it’s a greater day then [sic] yesterday.”
A consultant for Slash didn’t instantly reply Friday to The Occasions’ request for remark.
