Oscar
winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead of an apparent drug
overdose in the bathroom with a hypodermic needle still in his arm inside a
Greenwich Village home on Sunday morning, cops said.
According
to a source, a personal assistant found Hoffman’s body in an apartment where he
was staying 35 Bethune St. and immediately called 911 around 11:30 A.m.
According
to a source at the moment cops are at the scene and are investigating.
In
2006 while in an interview with journalist Steve Kroft he publicly admitted
that he nearly succumbed to substance abuse graduating from NYU’s drama school,
at the age of 22 he entered rehab.
“It
was all that (drugs and alcohol), yeah. It was anything… I could get my hands
on.. I liked it all, he told “ 60 minutes” at the time.
As
of last year, Hoffman allegedly checked in himself into rehab again for ten
days after relapsing in 2012.
According
to TMZ he began using prescription pills, then snorted heroin for about a week
before realizing he needed help.
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