By Griffin Okuchukwu
The Los Angeles Coroner’s Office, on Wednesday, May 14, 2014, announced that following various toxicology tests and an autopsy, it had been determined that Julia Roberts’ sister, Nancy Motes, 37, committed suicide.
Motes was discovered drowned in her bath on February 9 after taking various substances which have not been named. Her body was found with a note.
Following the coroner’s ruling, Motes‘ fiancé John Dilbeck told the New York Daily News newspaper: ‘I want everyone to know Nancy was not a drug addict. This verdict from the coroner is more proof of that. I’m still suffering and in mourning, and this is one of the worst nightmares anyone can imagine.’
Motes allegedly had a difficult relationship with her half-sister, Julia Roberts, and it had gotten worse in recent years.
The ‘August: Osage County’ star admitted last month that her sibling’s death hit her and their family hard.
The 46-year-old actress, who shared a mother, Betty Lou, with Nancy, said: ‘It’s just heartbreak … You don’t want anything bad to happen to anyone, but there are so many tragic, painful, inexplicable things in the world. But in any situation of challenge and despair, we must find a way, as a family. It’s so hard to formulate a sentence about it outside the weepy huddle of my family. Meditation or chanting or any of those things can be so joyous and also very quieting.’
