![]() Though tragic, it was an outcome that was not entirely unexpected, both for those closest to her and the public-Garland's longterm struggles with addiction had become almost as well known as her legendary singing voice. ![]() ![]() She took more barbiturates than she could tolerate.” The coroner, Gavin Thurston, announced to the press following the autopsy, “This is quite clearly an accidental circumstance to a person who was accustomed to taking barbiturates over a very long time. Following an autopsy, the coroner officially ruled the star's cause of death to be a self-administered accidental overdose on barbiturates, a then-common sleep aid. On June 22, 1969, Garland's new husband Mickey Deans broke down the locked bathroom door in their London flat and found the star dead she was 47 years old.
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