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Friend: Anna Nicole Smith's Son Was "Living in a Shell" Due to Mom's Fame
Wednesday January 30, 2008

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Anna Nicole Smith and son Daniel at "G-Phoria - The Award Show 4 Gamers" in Los Angeles, CA. on July 31, 2004.
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Anna Nicole Smith's late son Daniel did not want to be in his mother's spotlight, a family friend testified Tuesday at an inquest into his death.

Ford Shelley — the son-in-law of a developer who was embroiled in an ownership dispute over the estate where Anna Nicole lived in the Bahamas before her February 2007 death — said Daniel was "living in a shell" due to his mother's fame, the Associated Press reports.

"He wanted to break free," Shelley said. "He loved his mother but didn't want to be known as her son."

An autopsy found the likely cause of death of Daniel's 2006 death was a combination of drugs, including methadone and antidepressants.

The lab director for the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner's Office testified that a large dose of methadone taken by Daniel Smith was the primary cause behind his death.

But Shelley denied that Daniel Smith could have been a drug addict because he was "afraid of his own shadow" and "couldn't even hold his liquor."

The inquest continues Wednesday.

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