The causes surrounding Prince’s death remain a mystery, to the point where several outlets are (allegedly) coming up with their own theories.
Sources told TMZ that the singer overdosed on the prescription painkiller, Percocet and had to be rushed to an Illinois hospital after pilots made an emergency landing (Prince was flying home to Minnesota from Atlanta) his flight home from Atlanta to Minnesota.
Other “friends” of the late singer say that his death had nothing to do with drugs.
People Magazine reports that Prince battled an “ongoing illness” in the weeks leading up to his death.
“The people close to him were very concerned for his health and indicated he’d been undergoing treatments which made his immune system weak,” a source told the publication.
Prince kept his personal life under lock and key, but his friend and music producer, L.A. Reid told the Today show on April 22nd that his friend was not only not on drugs, but was a vegan.
“The thing that really bothers me about it is the Prince I know was super-healthy, vegan, wasn’t an abuser of drugs, wasn’t an abuser of alcohol,” Reid said.
“He was clean and he looked young and he looked really healthy and vibrant so the whole thing is really mysterious to me.”
In 2009, Prince admitted to PBS that he was born with epilepsy, but it had been cured by an “angel.”
“My mother told me one day I walked in to her and said, ‘Mom, I’m not going to be sick anymore.’
“And she said ‘Why?’ and I said ‘Because an angel told me so,"” Prince recalled.
“Now, I don’t remember saying it, that’s just what she told me.”
Prince was found in the elevator inside his Paisley Park home at 9:45am on April 21st, and was pronounced dead nearly a half hour later.
The autopsy is being conducted today to determine the actual cause of death.
