More than a month after the still-mysterious death of his wife, actress Brittany Murphy, Simon Monjack has broken his silence in a big way, including threatening a wrongful-death lawsuit against Warner Bros.
In an emotional interview conducted by the Daily Beast’s Gerald Posner, Monjack takes on popular tabloid descriptions of himself as a boozing sponge, defends Murphy as a drug-free innocent in the shark tank of Hollywood – while waving a possible legal action.
The threat comes even as the final coroner’s report on Murphy’s death remains unpublished. Monjack claims that Warners’ cutting Murphy from voice work in its sequel to the animation film “Happy Feet” devastated his wife.