Anna Nicole Smith Remembered In Music Video By Margaret Cho: ‘It’s My Version of ‘Candle In The Wind’

Anna Nicole Smith died in 2007, but her friend Margaret Cho remembers the day like it was yesterday. In an interview on Conversations With Maria Menounos, Cho talked about her good friend Anna Nicole, who tragically died of a prescription drug overdose at age 39, just five months after giving birth to her daughter Dannielynn.

In the interview, Margaret revealed that Smith never got over the death of her 20-year-old son, Daniel, who had died in her hospital room just three days after Dannielynn was born in September 2006.

“Her son had died, and her son was just so precious to her,” Cho said of Anna Nicole. The comedian also pointed to postpartum depression and the fact that Smith’s attorney, Howard K. Stern, and her ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead were arguing over Dannielynn’s paternity. (Birkhead was later proven through DNA to be the child’s father.)

“There’s lot of things going down in that story,” Cho said. “So it has to do with some postpartum depression, some overwhelming guilt that her son had died. They both had an issue with prescription painkillers and different drugs like that. I don’t know if there’s anybody that’s necessarily at fault. Of course, we’re all guilty. Anybody that’s close to her is guilty, if anyone.”

Margaret said Anna Nicole’s grief after Daniel was so great that she wouldn’t let him go.

“I know it took them four hours to pry her off of his body. She wouldn’t allow him to be buried, she just had to be next to him and near him.”

While there has been much speculation over Anna Nicole Smith’s death, her friend Margaret hopes that people will try to understand all that the blonde bombshell had gone through in her life, and especially in those months leading up to her death.

“Certainly people have to take that into consideration: the amazing torture and grief that she was experiencing anyway because of the loss of her son,” she said. “And that with postpartum, too, it’s got to be hard.”

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Anna Nicole Smith’s life was the subject of tabloid fodder. The former Playboy and Guess model had a highly publicized marriage to wealthy oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall, a man who was 63 years her senior. The years following Marshall’s death were dominated by a lengthy court battle over his estate. When Anna Nicole Smith landed her own reality show on E! Network, aptly titled The Anna Nicole Show, fans were stunned by her weight gain and frequently slurred speech. Smith’s relationship with her lawyer and his alleged control over her were also frequent tabloid topics, especially after they exchanged vows and rings in a quickie commitment ceremony in the Bahamas just two weeks after Daniel’s death.

After Anna Nicole Smith died, Cho wrote about her on her blog. In a poignant post, Cho wrote that she hoped Anna Nicole was finally at peace.

“I hope that she is happy now, where she is. It is easy to picture her there, riding the clouds, her young son at her side, a million miles above the paparazzi and the tabloids, the gossip columns. I hope she feels thin, and nothing is bugging her, and that she doesn’t have any more doubts or worries. Only puppies and kisses and love. Because she deserves that.”

As a more recent example of her love and devotion to Anna Nicole, Cho has released a music video that pays tribute to the fallen reality star. The comedian describes her collaboration with Garrison Starr as “a requiem for Anna Nicole Smith that is as beautiful and quirky as she was.”

“It’s my version of ‘Candle in the Wind,’ and about the archetype of someone who is too good for this world that exists in all of us.”

Take a look at Cho’s video tribute to Anna Nicole Smith below.

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