<p>A troubled childhood, a life of pain, an addiction to drugs and heroin. What exactly led grunge pioneer Kurt Cobain to suicide nearly 23 years ago?</p><br /><p>Star has learned that is exactly what the new Reelz series, Autopsy: The Last Hours of Kurt Cobain, hopes to answer.</p><br /><p>As Star reported, Cobain was just 27 when he was found dead from a gunshot blast in his Seattle home. But as the Reelz special reports, Cobain lived a troubled life, and battled years of addiction.</p><br /><p>“Kurt initially got into heroin because it seemed to him to be a pain killer,” said Cobain biographer Christopher Sandford. “His whole teenage years, he was looking for various pills and prescriptions to help get over his bad back, his bad stomach.”</p><br /><p>Psychologist Dr. Linda Papadopoulos has heard the “turning to drugs to escape pain” excuse before.</p><br /><p>“While that is I guess kind of understandable in the short term, it doesn’t negate the fact that it’s still a choice,” she said. “And the excuse of, ‘well I had no choice because I was in pain’ is one that again you hear a lot of addicts using.”</p><br /><p>Near the end, Cobain was spending about $700 a day feeding his drug addiction. Autopsy results revealed that Cobain had a lethal dose of heroin in his blood at the time of his death. But expert coroner and forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Hunter says there may be MORE to the story.</p><br /><p>“Kurt’s explanation that he used heroin for pain relief may be true, but the damage that that drug caused far outweighed any conceived benefit,” he said. “But I found something else in Kurt’s background that might also explain his reliance on chemical stimulants.”</p><br /><p>What did Dr. Hunter find? Tune in to on Autopsy: The Last Hours of Kurt Cobain, Saturday, Feb. 18 at 8pm ET/ PT on Reelz for the answers.</p><br /><p>Watch the sneak peek above!</p><br /><p>The post What Really Happened To Kurt Cobain? Top Doc Drops A Bombshell About The Late Star</a> appeared first on Star Magazine</a>.</p><br />
