The former Phoenix River reveals everything about the night he died

The actress who frequented River Phoenix at the time of her death, spoke in detail for the first time about what happened the night of the death of the actor.

Samantha Mathis, who had played alongside Phoenix during the filming of The Thing Called Love in 1993 – the actor's latest role, told The Guardian that she had buried what had happened to the prodigious Phoenix "for decades" because she had been traumatized by her death but that she now felt "the universe wanted me to talk about it".

In the interview, Mathis was remembered to have felt uneasy when she and Phoenix arrived at Johnny Depp's Viper Room on the famous Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles on October 31, 1993 .

"I knew something was wrong that night, something I did not understand," Mathis told the publication.

"I did not see anyone taking drugs, but he was high in a way that made me feel uncomfortable – I was above my head."

Phoenix, although Mathis urged them to leave, wanted to stay at the club and "play music" with friends, including Depp, members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers.

"I knew he was high that night, but the heroine who killed him only happened when he found himself in the Viper." Room.I have my suspicions about what was going on, but I did not see anything.

"Fourty-five minutes [after we got there]he was dead, "said Mathis.

The actress recounted that she had remembered being out of a bathroom and seeing Phoenix involved in an altercation with another man who was Was spread on the sidewalk.

It was then that Phoenix had collapsed on the sidewalk and had started to convulse.

Mathis recalled Phoenix's brothers and sisters, Joaquin and Rain, who rushed to help.

Joaquin's anxious call to emergency services – "Please, come on, he's dying, please" was very badly seen afterwards .

The actor was declared dead at Cedars-Sinai Hospital from an overdose of cocaine and heroin.

Mathis said that although the actor's friends thought that he was sinking into a drug addiction, she remembered her last year as being happy, describing a time when the couple stayed with his family in Florida and Costa Rica.

"We had just spent time with her brothers and sisters and had to be children," she recalls. "He was so good at hanging out."

Mathis says that she now remembers Phoenix as "sensitive and obsessive, he felt things on his heart very deeply."

Another ex-girlfriend, Martha Plimpton, said after her death: "He was just a boy, a boy with a very good heart, very excited and who knew absolutely no way of implementing his good intentions."

After his death, his mother Arlyn told Esquire magazine that his son "was becoming more and more uncomfortable" with his fame.

"He often said that he wished he could remain anonymous, but he never was, when he was not a movie star, he was a missionary, there is a beauty in that." – the man to the cause, the leader – but there is also deep loneliness. "

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