There have been rumors for some time that Brittany Murphy’s widower and Brittany’s mom had a romantic relationship that may or may not have predated Britney’s death in late December of last year. Now that we know that Brittany’s widower, Simon Monjack, has died at 40 maybe-not-so-coincidentally from the same cause that took Britney, we have a kind of confirmation from police that Simon and Brittany’s mom slept in the same bed at the time of his death. It’s a sad footnote to a complicated tale of two people dying young amid scandal. This whole story is sounding Shakespearean and I would bet there’s much more we don’t know.

Brittany Murphy’s mother told investigators that she shared a bed with her daughter’s husband Simon Monjack after Brittany passed away … this according to sources close to the investigation.

The L.A. Coroner’s Office just released their report on Simon Monjack’s death.

In the report, the investigator documents an exchange with a person whose name has been withheld — but whom law enforcement sources have identified as Brittany’s mother, Sharon Murphy.

According to the report, the investigator and the unnamed person (Sharon) were going through the master bedroom in the Hollywood Hills home that Simon shared with Brittany … when (Sharon) pointed to one side of Simon’s bed and identified it as “her side of the bed.”

Sharon also told the investigator that certain prescriptions in the nightstand — bearing the names Sharon Murphy and Sharon Monjack — were also hers.

The report doesn’t suggest sexual contact between the two.

[From TMZ]

Given this latest twist, people are going to be speculating that Brittany’s mom had some sort of sinister reason for wanting both her daughter and her (probable) lover dead. I wouldn’t jump to that conclusion, and would guess that this just makes the whole tragedy even worse for her. These two were grieving together in their way, and I don’t want to think too hard about what that entailed.

Brittany’s mom has denied that any kind of toxic mold in the home lead to the deaths of her daughter and son-in-law. TMZ reported that this was a definite possibility, though, and that mold in the home “came up early during the investigation into Brittany’s death — but it was deemed “not to be a contributing factor.'”

Radar Online has more on Simon’s cause of death as was found in the autopsy report. He had pneumonia an incredible nine times, was on oxygen, and a large array of prescription drugs were found in his system at the time of death. The autopsy report stated that “All of these drugs were detected at therapeutic or sub-therapeutic levels and most likely did not contribute to Mr. Monjack’s death.” The guy had also had a heart attack in November, 2009, had a “leaky” heart valve, suffered seizures after a fall a couple of years prior and had just one kidney. He was in very poor health at the time of his death. Whatever was going on with Brittany’s mother and her son-in-law, I feel for her. I would also tell her to get the home thoroughly inspected and to try and sell it if possible. Even if there’s no environmental cause for these two young people’s deaths, that house has to be full of sad memories.

Photos are screenshots from Sharon Murphy and Simon Monjack’s appearance on The Today Show in January