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Prince’s staff called drug addiction specialist the day before his death, says lawyer

By | Published on Thursday 5 May 2016

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Prince’s staff had requested support for the musician from a drug addiction specialist the day before he died, it has been reported.

Dr Howard Kornfeld was called on Wednesday 20 Apr and told that Prince “was dealing with a grave medical emergency”, a lawyer representing the Kornfeld family has said to the Star Tribune. Unable to attend himself, Kornfled sent his son Andrew to outline a treatment programme that his father would implement at a later date.

When he arrived the next morning he was told that Prince was missing and joined the search for him. It was Andrew Kornfeld who then reportedly made the 911 call when the musician was found slumped in a lift.

As previously reported, it has been claimed that Prince had an addiction to pain medication Percocet, which he began taking for hip pain some years previously. It has also been claimed that an overdose was the reason his private jet was forced to make an emergency landing just days before his death.

Elsewhere in Prince news, after Minnesota bank the Bremer Trust was appointed to administer his estate last week, the musician’s vault of unreleased music was reportedly drilled open. Exact plans for the music contained within are unknown, but it is likely that some or all of it will be released over time.



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