Drug Addiction

Why Anna Nicole Skipped Rehab

Boyfriend: Treatment 'would kill her.'

They tried to make Anna Nicole Smith go to rehab, but her boyfriend said "No, no no." Before her death, Smith's boyfriend, Howard K. Stern, dismissed a physician's suggestion of drug rehab for Smith, saying it "would kill her," according to the testimony of the late model's one-time bodyguard on Thursday during a preliminary hearing to determine whether there is enough evidence to try Stern and two doctors for illegally giving sedatives, opiates, and other drugs to Smith. The bodyguard also said that he and Dr. Khristine Eroshevich, one of the doctors charged, often talked about their concerns with Smith's burgeoning drug addiction, and that Eroshevich, who was prescribing drugs to Smith, would throw out pills while the model wasn't looking. The prosecution was barred from asking the bodyguard about an alleged sexual relationship between Smith and Eroshevich because the judge didn't want "to turn this into a circus sideshow."