Bruce Lee may be dead from heat stroke, says new book

Bruce Lee (left) and Jackie Chan in "Enter the Dragon".

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What happened on the day when the martial arts expert and Hollywood star Bruce Lee died in 1973 at the age of 32? Matthew Polly can have an idea.

Nearly 45 years after the film and the sudden disappearance of the legend, the American journalist published an intensive biography entitled "Bruce Lee: A Life."

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Polly interviewed more than 100 people associated with Lee, including friends, family, co-workers, and his widow Linda Lee Cadwell and their daughter Shannon Lee. the official cause of Lee's death was listed in his autopsy report as a cerebral edema possibly caused by sensitivity due to an analgesic called Equagesic, Polly suspects that it was actually a problem Heat stroke that could have brought down the kung fu idol

"The key to understanding Bruce Lee's death is that he collapsed 10 weeks before and almost died of the same thing," Polly explained. to Fox News his theory

. "On May 10, 1973, he entered a small dubbing room on one of the hottest days of the month.They turned off the air conditioner to avoid ruining the soundtrack He immediately overheated and had vertigo.

"He left the room and still fell to the floor. He got up and when he entered the heated room, he was The doctors suspected that his brain was swelling up … And the first collapse was exactly like heat stroke. "

Cadwell himself told the Los Angeles Times in 1998 that Lee's death was due to hypersensitivity to the brain, but Polly was insisted that Lee's last moments during a heat wave in Hong Kong mimicked more the symptoms that he was feeling before.

"At the time there were dozens and dozens of rumors – that he was poisoned, that ninjas came to him, that someone inflicted a death on him, "Polly said. "There is no evidence of concealment." My conclusion is heat stroke … It's a very common killer of athletic young men. "

Polly claimed that some months before the first incident, Lee surgically removed the sweat glands in his armpits.

think they look good on the screen, Polly said. "It was his job to look good on the screen. [But] that would have made it harder for him to dissipate the heat. "

But it's not just the circumstances of Lee's death that have added to his mystique over the years." Lee died in the apartment of actress Betty Ting Pei, the last person who would have seen the star alive.It's Pei who would have offered Lee Equagesic after complaining of a growing headache

Polly, who interviewed the 71-year-old man, claimed that Pei was not only Lee's mistress, but also the most important case of his life

"he started to be less discreet," he said. "He was going out with her to town where other people could see them … I think that all her life was marked by Bruce's death. It's an injury that she has never completely recovered. I was struck by the intensity of his feelings for Bruce

"She said that it was the love of her life, it was interesting to talk to this woman who was always in love with someone who died so long ago.

Cadwell did not respond to Polly's book, but noted that his own memoirs revealed that the 73-year-old man had first thought that it was possible that Lee is unfaithful after his death in Pei's bed.

But his alleged love with Pei was perhaps not the only deal that Lee had. Polly claimed that his relationship with Sharon Farrell, his co-star in 1969 "Marlowe", resulted in a rivalry with Steve McQueen. "19659007" According to Sharon, whom I interviewed, they got bonded and had a passionate love story, "Siad Polly." But Bruce was very devoted to his wife and did not want to leave her. And so she finished it. In her next film, "The Reivers", she co-starred with Steve McQueen … and she immediately contacted him.

"Bruce arrives on the set and sees her, they have one last passionate date," We can not go on because I'm with Steve now. "And Bruce gets a little broken, he says," I understand, it's a big star, but would you expect me? "

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