The half-sister of Oscar-winning actress Julia Roberts perished from a potential drug overdose, the La County Coroner’s workplace said on Monday.
Nancy Motes, 3 7, was discovered dead in a tub filled with water at a La home on Sunday, L.A. County Coroner spokesman Captain John Kades stated.
Prescription medicines were located in the dwelling, which was perhaps not Motes’s residence. He included that signs of a suicide notice was discovered in the home.
An autopsy for Motes was planned for Monday, however a real cause of dying may consider so long as 8 to 10 months to be discovered, pending a toxicology report.
She was created with their mom.
Representatives for both Julia Roberts and Eric Roberts didn’t reply to Reuters for remark.
In a declaration to Folks magazine, the Roberts family stated they were “shocked and devastated” by Motes’s passing.
“It is by using deep sadness the household of Nancy Motes … verifies that she was discovered dead in La yesterday of an obvious drug overdose,” the family stated.