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“The adult business is rampant with drugs”
Nick Melillo
Yurizan, also known as Yuri Love, was found dead in her home by her landlord last week.
After her cause of death was revealed to be from an overdose, many speculated that she had taken her own life.
But friend Nick Melillo said her death had been a tragic accident, as she had taken one too many pills.
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He told Newsweek: “The adult business is rampant with drugs – especially crystal meth, because it’s cheap – and pills.
“Supposedly there was one or two pills left over. She died in her sleep, art was just that one too many.
“A lot of people accidentally die.”
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Melillo also tragically revealed that Yuri had planned to leave the porn industry and set up an animal rescue business.
He added: “She was going to turn her life around and help Yoko (her friend) full time with the animal rescue business.
“Yurizan was determined not to get into crazy stuff in the business – not get involved in a life in the business and live a life on the outside.
“In the last two years she decided she wanted to get out.”
The adult film industry was thrown into the spotlight after the suicide of August Ames this month.
The young star took her own life after becoming the victim of a relentless online bullying campaign.