While a Coroner’s autopsy report for Brittany Murphy is pending, officials in advance of the coroner’s autopsy believed Brittany Murphy died of natural causes.

Brittany Murphy’s autopsy report could take weeks. But initial indications suggest the 32 year old Murphy died of cardiac arrest, a heart attack, in her Los Angeles home Sunday.

As profiled on LALATE Sunday, Murphy had previously detailed to press she had a serious heart condition that began at childhood and continued as an adult. While the net took to rumor creations Sunday about Murphy’s cause of death, Brittany herself in a 2001 interview said she couldn’t take and hadn’t used illegal substances ever because of her heart condition.

A 2001 interview by Murphy to Michael Adams detailed her lifetime struggle with the heart problems. Adams recalls his interview with Murphy in an email statement Sunday.

“it was in an interview about ‘Sidewalks Of New York’ but I asked her about other projects and she mentioned ‘Spun,’. I asked her – as a joke – if she’d taken [illegal substances] for research and she laughed and said even if she wanted to she couldn’t take [illegal substances] because she’d had a heart condition since she was a little girl.”

Alicia Silverstone who played Cher opposite Murphy’s Tai in Clueless remembers Murphy Sunday. Even though Silverstone says the two did not stay in touch, she tells PEOPLE

“I always felt connected to her as we shared a very special experience in our lives together. I feel love in my heart for her – and hope she is at peace. This is truly sad.” “I’m so saddened to hear this news. I loved working with Brittany. She was so talented, so warm, and so sweet.”

Send your love.

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