Anna Nicole Smith's lover once "cooked" Valium for the bedridden playmate as she was fed a cocktail of drugs in the months before her death, a court has been told.
The Los Angeles court has heard the former Playboy pin-up was so heavily medicated in her final days that she was drinking one prescription drug from a baby bottle.
Boyfriend-lawyer Howard K Stern and doctors Khristina Eroshevich and Sandeep Kapoor are accused of allegedly conspiring to unlawfully administer Smith with drugs before her death on February 8, 2007.
In testimony yesterday, Smith's former bodyguard Moe Brighthaupt said he observed both Stern and Eroshevich injecting the star with drugs in late 2006.
Brighthaupt recounted one time in October 2006 when he walked in to find Smith naked in bed as Stern broke up a Valium pill and began to "cook" it.
"He was drawing up liquid in a spoon that was being cooked," Brighthaupt was quoted as saying in the New York Post.
"She couldn't swallow … Anna and Howard and felt that if you put it in the blood system it would get into the system faster."
The former bodyguard also claimed he once saw Smith trying to inject herself with drugs.
Earlier this week the court heard Smith was found dead in a king-size bed at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood, Florida, covered in her own faeces.
One of the police officers who attended the scene, Danny Santiago, testified that Smith "was unresponsive, her lips were blue and her skin was beginning to be discoloured."
A coroner ruled Smith died of "acute combined drug intoxication" caused by medications including Benadryl, diazepam, clonazepam, lorazepam and choral hydrate.
A judge at the preliminary hearing will rule whether the three co-accused will stand trial over the death.
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