Autopsy Reveals Drugs Involved in Alexander McQueen’s Suicide
By: Brodie
4.28.2010
An official autopsy found celebrated fashion designer and innovator Alexander McQueen had ingested a cocktail of drugs before he took his own life.
"The balance of his mind was disturbed,” coroner Paul Knapman told the BBC. The death has been ruled a suicide.
Read further details form the autopsy after the break.
The findings revealed McQueen ingested cocaine, sleeping pills, and tranquilizers before hanging himself in his London area home. McQueen was believed to be under professional pressure and grief-stricken from the recent passing of his mother, Joyce.
The Gucci Group, which owned the designer’s successful brand said in a statement, "Whatever the circumstances of his passing, Lee will be remembered by all of us who had the privilege of calling him a colleague and friend as a rare talent, a true genius and brilliant creative force."
