The home of Mac Miller was cleaned up before the investigation: report

Before the police had the opportunity to examine Mac Miller's home in Los Angeles, where the 26-year-old musician had been found dead on Friday after an apparent overdose, the property would have been "cleaned up" so that there would be no trace of drugs. use.

In a report released Saturday by TMZ, law enforcement sources said they had initiated conversations with witnesses and considered further evidence to come to this conclusion. The sources told the outlet that they thought Miller had suffered a fatal overdose but that only a small amount of white powder was found at Miller when the police looked for clues about the rapper's death "Self Care".

"It makes no sense to them that someone who has consumed a lethal dose has had the foresight to rub the house of vials of pills, illicit drugs as well as props of the drug at the risk of dying. ", wrote TMZ. results.

Miller was not alone at home Thursday and Friday, when 911 was called, also reported TMZ. According to police sources, people were on the property with him, but no one saw Miller alive after Thursday night, according to the newspaper.

On Saturday, police could not confirm TMZ's report to PEOPLE.

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Miller, whose real name is Malcolm McCormick, was pronounced dead Friday at 11:51 am at his studio studio in California, confirmed the medical department of the Los Angeles Medical Examiner in a statement to PEOPLE.

A cause of death remains to be determined, but one source told PEOPLE that Miller had had a cardiac arrest after appearing to be suffering from a drug overdose.

Another source told PEOPLE that Miller was spending his Thursday night watching football with friends. "He loved the Steelers and went out with friends to watch the game," said a source in the music industry. (The Steelers did not play in the first game of the 2018 regular season on Thursday, but the Philadelphia Eagles faced the Atlanta Falcons.)

Her casual evening with friends seemed so benign, "that's why it's such a shock," the source added. "Everyone he worked with was aware that it was tricky, but thought it was because of the new album, nerves, nothing like it." (Miller just released his fifth and last studio album Swimming August 3)

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Throughout his life, Miller was very open about his struggles with sobriety. After his Macadelic tour in 2012 and the release of his first studio album Blue Slide ParkMiller admitted to having used drugs to cope with stress.

"I like lean; It's great … I was not happy and I was lean very heavy, "Miller said. Complex in 2013. "I was so crazed all the time that it was bad. My friends could not even look at me the same way. I was lost. "

Miller also battled depression. "I've had a drug problem for a long time. It was not just about music, but I was definitely going through a drug problem and I think it was more my state of mind. I was just depressed, "Miller told Larry King in 2015.

A year later, Miller admitted to a documentary for FADER that "he hates being sober" but he "prefers to be the nerdy white rapper that the drugged mess who can not even get out of his house. The overdose is just not cool.

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Although Miller has been trying to change his life in the past two years, he was arrested for impaired driving in May, less than a week after breaking up with Ariana Grande.

However, last month he said Rolling stone he does not classify himself as an addict. "If a group of people think I'm a big addict, agree. Cool. What can I really do? Go talk to all these people and be like "Naw man, it's really not that simple?"

"Did I take drugs? Yeah. But am I an addict? No."

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