Disturbing Details Discovered In Lucille Ball's Autopsy Report

Posted by Sebrina Pilcher on Friday, May 3, 2024

Ball married comedian Gary Morton in 1961. They remained married until her death. The Queen of Comedy passed away on April 26, 1989, at the age of 77, eight days after undergoing emergency heart surgery. The cause of death at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles was determined to be a ruptured abdominal aorta, in a different location from her surgery (via Biography). But questions remain about what caused so much damage to such a critical blood vessel.

For several years before her death, Ball was using amyl nitrate, also a popular street drug, known at the time as poppers, to ease chest pain, according to People. Forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Hunter, who reviewed Ball's autopsy report, says it was originally used as a prescription drug to treat chest pain (via Reelz Channel). "As early as 1984, four years before her death, Lucille Ball was using this inhalant to ease pains in her chest and heart. And that could be a warning sign of already established cardiovascular disease," Hunter said. Her autopsy also revealed that a condition called cystic medial necrosis, a breakdown of muscle, collagen and elastin in the large blood vessels, contributed to Ball's death, Hunter said.

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