

Tom Petty's death was officially ruled an accidental overdose. Unfortunately, it cost him his life! Tom knew he gave everything he had to rock ‘n’ roll and his fans. He blew the place away! Tom left it all on stage.

Tom knew there wouldn’t be any more shows. His family begged him to rest up, but he vowed to finish the tour for his fans. He was due to have a hip replacement and was exhausted from working his butt off. Recently, Tom had to be given vitamin B12 shots - 30 or 40 units a day - just to give him the energy to perform! Tom was in severe pain. Back in the ’90s, Tom had a very bad heroin habit, and it left him with muscle and bone pain. handled the emergency.”Īccording to a source close to Tom Petty, the Heartbreakers leader lived in near constant pain, with an unnamed insider telling, “Tom hadn’t been doing well for a while, and when the band got back from London, he seemed to be on his last legs. A report that the LAPD confirmed the singer’s death is inaccurate - the L.A. The singer is not expected to live throughout the day, but he’s still clinging to life. We’re told the family has a do not resuscitate order on Tom. The site posted that Petty was taken off life support and at “10:30 Monday morning (October 2nd), a chaplain was called to Tom’s hospital room. A chaplain came to administer last rights and he was taken off of life support.” He was taken to the hospital and put on life support but there was no brain activity. Tom was in full cardiac arrest and unconscious. She hears very soft breathing, tries CPR and it seems he breathes better. You hear another man take the phone but then Dana takes it back. The dispatcher tried to get her to administer CPR, but Dana needed help. According to TMZ: “(Petty's wife) Dana York seemed confused and upset when she dialed 911 on Sunday, October 1st at around 10:45 PM. Petty had wrapped his 40th anniversary tour with the Heartbreakers on September 25th, 2017 at L.A.'s Hollywood Bowl. Before the official announcement came down, fans had spent the better part of October 1st on tenterhooks as word was incorrectly leaked by law enforcement earlier in the day that Petty had died of a heart attack - before it was retracted and announced that he was alive, yet unconscious and pulled off life support. Five years ago, Sunday, (October 2nd, 2017) the rock word faced a particularly harsh blow with the sudden death of the legendary Tom Petty at age 66 at UCLA Medical Center, one day after suffering cardiac arrest at his home.
