The official cause of death is still pending, but Brittany Murphy’s mother believes her daughter died from a heart murmur, according to Radaronline.com.

“The congenital condition was diagnosed when Brittany was a teenager and she always had the best medical care for it,” Sharon Murphy said.

The 32-year-old actress, known for her big eyes and wide grin and from such movies as “Clueless” and “Girl, Interrupted,” collapsed and died on Dec. 20 in Hollywood.

In a 911 call, Murphy’s mother told the dispatcher that her “daughter’s passed out” and went on to say that Brittany had been vomiting and was feeling dizzy.

Rumors have swirled that drugs, alcohol or mental illness may have contributed to the young star’s death, but her mother refutes those reports.

The actress’ husband, Simon Monjack, told People magazine about his wife’s sick heart.

“We had it checked out every which way you could imagine.”

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Brittany Murphy’s heartbroken husband yesterday blasted the “crazy” suggestions that the “Clueless” star overdosed or had an eating disorder, insisting he has no idea what killed his 32-year-old wife.

Murphy spent her last night of life noshing on Thai takeout and homemade soup while checking out Oscar contenders from her bed, widower Simon Monjack told People magazine.

He bristled at suggestions Murphy’s cardiac arrest was caused by drugs or an eating disorder.

“These rumors that she was anorexic? It’s crazy — she was slim, but that was her natural physique,” Monjack told the mag.

“This is what’s killing all of us. How did it happen? Her mum, myself and her family — we want to know why we lost our baby.”

Authorities have ruled out foul play, but investigators reportedly found prescription drugs in the actress’ Hollywood Hills home.

Monjack said Murphy — who in the past six months had worked on the films “Abandoned,” “Something Wicked” and “Shrinking Charlotte” — had laryngitis and was taking herbal medications and tea.

“It’s horrible — the death of a beautiful young woman,” he said.

In recent public appearances, Murphy appeared to be gaunt and underfed.

But at the time of her death, the 5-foot-5 Murphy weighed 115 pounds — within parameters of normal weight under federal standards, assistant chief coroner Ed Winter told The Post.

“We are faced with this ridiculous reality that people out there believe she felt, ‘Oh, poor me, I’m fat, I’m thin.’ Brittany didn’t see beauty as a physical thing — which I’m bloody lucky for,” he said.

Murphy Saturday night screened “It’s Complicated,” “Public Enemies” and “The Princess and the Frog” to help her decide how to vote as a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

“She was tired and a little sad because she was sick,” her husband said.

But a leading pain-medication specialist said he was troubled by the amount of pills reportedly found in Murphy’s home.

“I’d be surprised if there weren’t medication-related issues involved in her death,” said Dr. David Kloth, a member of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, a group that monitors prescription-drug abuse.

“To be 32 years old and die for no reason — that just doesn’t happen.”

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Los Angeles police have opened an investigation into circumstances surrounding the death of actress Brittany Murphy.

Police have been dispatched to Cedars-Sinai and to the Los Angeles home where Murphy, 32, went into cardiac arrest earlier today. Police sources emphasized that their inquiry was preliminary, adding they could not say whether it would point to any criminal conduct.

L.A. city firefighters responded to a call from the home in the 1800 block of Rising Glen Road. Murphy was transported to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead.

Born in Atlanta, Murphy moved to Burbank with her mother at age 13. Her film break came in the movie “Clueless” (1995), in which she starred opposite Alicia Silverstone.

Murphy has made dozens of other film appearances, including in “Girl Interrupted” (1999), “8 Mile” (2002), “The Dead Girl” (2006), and “Across the Hall” (2009). She also was featured as the voice of Luanne in the animated TV series “King of the Hill.”

Murphy specialized in playing characters who were troubled teenagers or mentally disturbed, according to a biography on industry website Internet Movie Data Base.

Murphy was married in 2007 to British screenwriter Simon Monjack, the website said.

It was reported last month that the notoriously difficult-to-deal-with star was fired from an upcoming film project in Puerto Rico and replaced with Twilight’s Rachel Lefevre, because she was too demanding because her husband was getting into fights with locals.

A Murphy spokeswoman denied thosen rumors, telling OK! Magazine that the split was mutual.

Rumors swirled over Murphy’s extreme weight loss that some suggested might be due to cocaine abuse. She denied ever using drugs, and said her worst vice was caffeine.

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Actress Brittany Murphy, who starred in such films as “Just Married” and “8 Mile” but suffered waning fortunes in recent years, died on Sunday, officials said. She was 32.

Murphy was pronounced dead at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center near Beverly Hills after reportedly going into cardiac arrest at her home in West Hollywood.

Online gossip site TMZ said her mother, Sharon, discovered Murphy unconscious in the shower. The Los Angeles Fire Department said it responded to an emergency call about 8 a.m. PST.

Murphy starred in films opposite Michael Douglas, Ashton Kutcher, Eminem and Angelina Jolie, but failed to attain their level of success. In recent years, she worked mostly in low-budget movies, while her emaciated appearance sparked concerns about her health.

“(Today) the world lost a little piece of sunshine,” Kutcher, a former boyfriend, wrote on his Twitter page. “(S)ee you on the other side kid.”

Her publicist declined comment, saying the family wanted privacy.

Murphy was in the news earlier this month when she reportedly was fired from the Puerto Rico set of the indie thriller “The Caller.” Her publicist said the split resulted from creative differences. When Murphy and her husband of two years, British screenwriter Simon Monjack, returned to Los Angeles, he lost consciousness on the plane and was rushed to hospital.

Murphy was last in theaters with the low-budget thriller “Across the Hall,” which opened in one theater each in New York and Los Angeles two weeks ago. She recently finished work on the Sylvester Stallone action film “The Expendables.”

Murphy was born in Atlanta on November 10, 1977, and raised in New Jersey. Accompanied by her mother, she moved to Los Angeles in the early 1990s in hopes of stardom.

She made her breakthrough in the 1995 feature comedy “Clueless,” playing one of Alicia Silverstone’s girlfriends. She built on her momentum with a succession of TV roles and appeared in two films in 1999 — “Drop Dead Gorgeous” and “Girl, Interrupted,” for which Jolie received an Oscar.

Murphy worked with Douglas in the 2001 thriller “Don’t Say a Word,” and played Eminem’s love interest in the 2002 hit “8 Mile.”

The following year, she co-starred with Kutcher in the romantic comedy “Just Married,” and played Dakota Fanning’s babysitter in “Uptown Girls.” But the movies failed to generate much commercial or critical heat. Her last major role was in the 2005 comic-book adaptation “Sin City.”

Murphy enjoyed more enduring success on the small screen, providing the voice of the vacuous Texan Luanne Platter in the cartoon series “King of the Hill.” She also voiced a penguin in the 2006 box office hit “Happy Feet.”

An autopsy will be conducted as early as Monday on Brittany Murphy, RadarOnline.com has learned.

Earlier in her career, Murphy was accused of having an eating disorder, which triggered rumors of cocaine use. In 2005, Murphy denied the accusations, saying: “I have never tried it in my entire life. I’ve never even seen it…I am also way too high-strung. I can’t even take a Sudafed. Can you imagine? My God. I think my heart would explode.”

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Brittany Murphy - At the Prada L.A Screening of ‘Trembled Blossoms’ in Beverly Hills.

Brittany Murphy and her writer-director husband Simon Monjack are just weeks away from celebrating their April 12 first anniversary. Now the couple have set their sights on reaching another milestone: Starting a family.

At a W Magazine-Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art gala over the weekend, Monjack, 38, told People: “Please God, next year [we’re] having a family!”

“Yes! Yes!” chimed in Murphy, 30. “In about a year” they plan to have children. But, joked Monjack, “apparently, according to the Internet, I already have several!”

Murphy and her British writer-director husband already have endured their share of public scrutiny – via, as they put it, “the blogs” – over their sudden marriage

“All these ridiculous people came out and said all this nonsense when we got married, [but] thank god we had the substance and the history within that to [say], ‘Yeah, whatever!’” says Monjack, who’s been friends with Murphy since she was 17. “We still don’t understand what happened. It’s made us laugh, it’s made us cry, but it’s made us stronger.”

So, according to Murphy, the final solution for dealing with all the negativity: “We did stop using the Internet lately,” she said. “No blogs. We’re a blog-free couple!”

Brittany Murphy at The W Magazine Inaugural Avant-Garde Gala.

 

Brittany Murphy has reportedly exhausted the crew on the set of her upcoming film with her diva antics. The actress’ behavior on the LA set of “Across the Hall” has been difficult and increasingly bizarre.

 Murphy has been making outrageous demands while acting “like a diva,” said one insider. “She’s extremely difficult. When she gets to the set, it comes to a grinding halt. She’s so hot and cold, you never know.” According to our sources, Murphy insists on having diagonally cut peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with the crusts removed. “She needs one every hour. It’s painstaking: her assistant takes about a half an hour making each one,” said one crew member. Another issue is Murphy’s ever-present oddball husband, Simon Monjack, who lurks around the set and intervenes so much that producers had to call a meeting to discuss how to deal with him.

What kind of effed up peanut butter and jelly sandwich takes a full 30 minutes to make?