Murphy’s Estranged Dad Refuses To Go To Funeral

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BRITTANY MURPHY’s estranged father is refusing to attend her Christmas Eve (24Dec09) funeral - because he doesn’t want to see the body of his tragic daughter.

The Clueless star passed away at the age of 32 on Sunday (20Dec09) after suffering a cardiac arrest at her Hollywood Hills home. An autopsy was carried out on Monday (21Dec09) but the cause of death has yet to be released.

Her husband, Simon Monjack, denied reports the star was taking a dangerous amount of prescription drugs, but did reveal she had been diagnosed with a non-life-threatening heart murmur and had battled laryngitis earlier this year (09). It is also believed the actress suffered from diabetes.

But Murphy’s father, Angelo Bertolotti, 83, who hadn’t seen his daughter since 2006, insists the news of her deteriorated health came as a shock, because he was never made aware of any problems.

And Bertolotti will not attend the funeral when his daughter is buried at at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, in the Hollywood Hills, California on Thursday (24Dec09) - because he doesn’t want the service to be his lasting memory of his little girl.

He tells E! Online, “I was very shocked by it (her death). I can’t believe it really. It happened so fast, I’m just trying to figure it all out right now. I’m very upset by it.

“If I wanted to go (to the funeral) I would go, but I don’t want to see her that way. She was flawless to me. She was a little bright child. I have only good memories about her. She’s a memory to me now. To me she’s off making a movie somewhere.

“She had a couple of issues but nothing was that serious. Her mother never told me anything like that. She never said she had anything like was listed in the papers.”