10 Mysterious Celebrity Deaths That Shocked The World

4. Bruce Lee

Martial arts revolutionary, movie star and pop culture icon Bruce Lee began to experience headaches that led to seizures on 10th May 1973, and attended hospital after collapsing during a dialogue looping session in Hong Kong. He was diagnosed with a cerebral edema: an accumulation of fluid in the spaces in the brain. Medication reduced the swelling, and he was allowed to go home. On July 20th, Lee was with friends when he complained of a headache, and took a painkiller called Equagesic, one that€™s since been discontinued in the United States due to its problematic toxicity. Heading for a nap, Lee never awoke. He was rushed to hospital but died by the time the ambulance got there: the official cause of death was an allergic reaction to the main ingredient in the painkiller, one that had caused his brain to swell once more. While there were reports of conflicting medical opinions on Lee€™s death for years (Lee€™s own doctor claimed that one tablet of Equagesic couldn€™t have killed anyone, and another reputable neurosurgeon, the one that treated Lee in May of that year, would go on record as saying that Lee€™s regular ingestion of cannabis was likely to have caused the first attack, and that this had not been considered as a cause of the second), death by misadventure remains the official cause of death. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p0TcqTOtGw That€™s not stopped people from speculating about a curse on the family, given that Lee€™s son Brandon also died in mysterious circumstances some twenty years later. Many also allege that Lee€™s Americanisation of kung fu in his films and the resulting revelation of the forms trade secrets as kung fu went globally mainstream with his popularity, led to his being targeted by the Triads, who had placed pressure on the authorities to provide an official cause of death before all the medical evidence was in.