In February 2014, Nancy Motes’ fiancé found her unresponsive in the bathtub of the Los Angeles home of a family for whom she was pet-sitting, the New York Daily News reported. Authorities found both non-prescription and prescription drugs at the scene, leading them to suspect they had played a part in Motes’ death. It was later determined Motes suffered a drug overdose before drowning, The U.S. Sun noted. However, Motes left a handwritten note that suggested her death may have been a suicide, according to the Daily Mail.
In the letter, Motes indicated she felt abandoned by her family and gave insight into her mental state at the time of her death. “My mother and so-called ‘siblings’ get nothing except the memory that they are the ones that drove me into the deepest depression I’ve ever been in,” she wrote in the note published by the Daily Mail. Motes appeared to feel particular resentment toward Julia Roberts, whom she had accused of body-shaming her, Page Six reported.
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Motes went so far as to claim Roberts discouraged her from pursuing an acting career because of her weight. “Julia did not want to see me go down that path. Mostly because I was overweight,” Motes told the New York Daily News. Just weeks before she died, Motes had taken to X, then Twitter, to blast her sister. “Just so you all know ‘America’s Sweetheart’ is a B***H,” she tweeted, the Daily Mail reported in February 2014.
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