Juice Wrld ‘popped painkillers to hide them from police searching for guns and weed moments before collapsing and dying’
JUICE Wrld popped painkillers to hide them from police searching for guns and weed moments before he died, it is claimed.
The rapper, 21, panicked and swallowed the pills as he landed at Chicago airport, according to TMZ.
reports the private plane’s pilot called the cops to report the star’s entourage were armed with guns.
The rapper collapsed and died after suffering a seizure.
Initial tests have proved inconclusive but law enforcement sources believe he may have overdosed after the plane landed at about 1am yesterday.
The entertainment website has reported that paramedics spent 40 minutes trying to save him before he was taken to hospital at 2.55am.
But when they arrived at 3.06am, Juice was pronounced dead.
FATAL SEIZURE
The musician had previously been open about his battles with drug addiction, suffered a seizure after landing having flown from California.
The rapper reportedly had a problem with the painkiller Percocet.
Meanwhile the FBI found the huge stash of cannabis in several suitcases on board the plane.
While Juice’s cause of death is not conclusively known, the Cook County Medical Examiner will conduct a post-mortem examination on Monday in a bid to establish how he died.
FIREARM ARRESTS
Two men, Chris Long, 36, and Henry Dean, 27, were arrested on allegations of illegally possessing handguns.
Three guns were reportedly recovered.
The star whose real name is Jarad A Higgins spoke candidly about his experiences with Lean, Percocet and Xanax to NME: “Drugs can ruin your whole life. If they don’t kill you, they can leave you in a trance for the rest of your life.
“Most f***ing rappers rap about getting high and feeling great. But I talk about the good side and the bad side. Just to shed some light on the negative side.”
Lean, or purple drank – a mixture of prescription-grade cough syrup mixed with a fizzy drink and a hard sweet – has become prolific in America’s rap scene.
Emo rapper Lil Peep died in 2017 from an accidental overdose after taking fentanyl and Xanax – he was vocal about his battles with Bipolar and other mental health issues.
Lil Wayne has sung about Lean, in his 2008 song, “Me and my drank”, he refers to his double cup ‘sizzurp’ as his “beloved”.
Mac Miller, who died from a drug overdose of cocaine, Fentanyl and alcohol in September last year aged just 26.
Lil Pump, who released a song in 2018 called ‘Drug Addicts’ and is often seen drinking Lean and other drugs on social media.
Not keeping the heavy drug use a secret, Juice Wrld once rapped: “What’s the 27 club? We ain’t making it past 21.”
The lyric is from a song written shortly after the deaths of Lil Peep, 21 and XXXTenaction, 20.
