"If I don't stop I know I'm going to die'': How tragic Philip Seymour Hoffman predicted his fate weeks before fatal heroin overdose.
Philip Seymour Hoffman withdrew $1200 in six different transactions from the same West Village ATM the night before he died
Witnesses also came forward to say that Hoffman was 'just like any other junkie' who scored drugs from dealers on the streets
Disheveled actor, 46, admitted to a complete stranger two weeks ago at the Sundance Festival in Utah - 'I'm a heroin addict'
The tragic Oscar winner relapsed into a huge heroin binge before Christmas and told friends 'If I don't stop now, I know I'm going to die'
Hoffman was discovered with close to 70 bags of heroin and 20 discarded syringes inside his Manhattan home on Sunday
Last pictures of the actor reveal him to be drinking in a bar in Atlanta on January 30 and on a flight back to New York
NYPD are examining his cellphone to discover who sold him the drugs
His children were waiting in a playground a block away and were with their mother Mimi O'Donnell when she discovered he was dead
Sources say the actor was kicked out of his house by O'Donnell around three months ago because he had relapsed
New York Medical Examiner says that the autopsy results will not be conducted until Tuesday
If they prove the heroin was tainted - the case could become a homicide investigation
By Sara Nathan and James Nye and Ml Nestel and Daniel Bates
Philip Seymour Hoffman withdrew $1200 in six different transactions on Saturday night from the same ATM accompanied by two unidentified men according to police sources investigating the death of the Oscar winner.
The New York Post has spoken to a witness who said that Hoffman secured his fix from two men outside of a D'Agostino's a stone's throw away from his West Village apartment on Saturday night.
The alleged dealers were wearing messenger bags and stood next to the troubled actor as he withdrew money from inside the store on Greenwich Street at approximately 8pm.
Heroin addict: Philiip Seymour Hoffman at the
prestigious Sundance Film Festival in Utah where he approached a
stranger two weeks ago looking 'sloppy' and disheveled and admitted that
he had a substance abuse problem
That’s when the drug transaction took place,’ law-enforcement source said according to the New York Post.
The exchange was just one of many drug deals the Oscar winner is said to have made in New York City over the past several months as his addiction spiraled out of control.
A witness, who remained unidentified for personal legal reasons, told the New York Post that he personally witnessed Hoffman buying drugs from a drug den in Manhattan.
'I saw Philip Seymour Hoffman there,' the man told law enforcement.
So seriously did police take the information that they rushed to the apartment on Monday night, one day after Hoffman was found dead.
Once there, the police arrested someone walking out of the apartment, who they suspected could have been buying, or selling heroin.
However, the police did not find any 'Ace of Spades' stamped drugs.
'Clearly, Hoffman could have been buying drugs at other locations, too,' a source said.
This new development comes after reports Hoffman had been making a string of strange outbursts in the weeks leading up to his death as the star, who had been sober for 23 years, relapsed into the addiction that claimed his life.
Just two weeks ago, the drug addled actor approached a complete stranger at the Sundance Film Festival two weeks ago admitting, 'I'm a heroin addict'.
Battle with addiction: This picture of Philip Seymour Hoffman with his sister Emily Hoffman shows the future Oscar winner after his graduation - by his own admission, Hoffman would enter rehab in 1989 after leaving NYU because of his problems with heroin
Father of three: Philip Seymour Hoffman with Mimi O'Donnell son, Cooper, daughter, Tallulah and Willa out and about in New York City in 2009
The Oscar winner, 46, made the awkward confession to magazine publisher John Arundel because the executive failed to recognize the much-loved star of Capote, Almost Famous and the Ides of March.
When asked what he did for a living, a disheveled Hoffman told Arundel that he was a 'heroin addict' - at which point the actor removed his 'sloppy hat' - causing the businessman to remember he was talking to one of Hollywood's brightest stars.
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TIMELINE TO TRAGEDY: THE FINAL HOURS OF PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN
Philip Seymour Hoffman is believed to have first sought treatment for a relapse in May of 2013 but friends and witnesses have claimed that he had relapsed again and was injecting heroin before Christmas.
Prior to this the actor had been sober for more than 20-years after battling addiction following his graduation from New York University in 1989
Saturday morning: 8am - Philip Seymour Hoffman gets a four-shot espresso over ice with milk from the Chocolate Bar on 8th Avenue.
Saturday afternoon: 1.30pm - Hoffman speaks to his assistant Isabella Davey-Wing and she claims later that he seemed fine. She also told law enforcement that she visited Hoffman at his home on Friday and the actor was ok.
Saturday afternoon: 2pm - Mimi O'Donnell meets Hoffman on the streets of the West Village and later tells police that she believed he was high
Saturday afternoon: 5pm - Hoffman is seen walking along Greenwich Street by a television producer who says hello and thinks later that Hoffman seemed 'out of it'
Saturday evening: Hoffman has a cheeseburger with two companions at Automatic Slims, a bar in the West Village - he does not drink alcohol
Saturday evening: 8pm - Mimi O'Donnell speaks to Hoffman again - this time on the phone - she told police that the actor appeared to be high
Saturday evening: Around 9pm - Hoffman takes a phone call to his friend David Katz on the telephone - the last time he is believed to have spoke to anyone
Saturday evening: Between 8 and 9 pm - Hoffman withdraws a total of $1,200 from an ATM in six transactions at a supermarket near his West Village home. Hoffman is seen talking to two men wearing messenger bags afterwards.
Sunday morning 9am - Hoffman does not collect his three children from O'Donnell
Sunday morning 11am - Mimi O'Donnell asks Hoffman's friend, David Katz and his assistant to go to the apartment of the actor. They find him dead in his bathroom
Sunday morning 11.30am - The police are called and O'Donnell is informed of the father of her three children's death
'Oh, you’re Philip Seymour Hoffman,' exclaimed Arundel. 'Bingo!' the actor replied before offering up the further admission, 'I just got out of rehab'.
'Obviously, he wanted people to know he was in recovery mode,’ Arundel said to the New York Post.
And just before Christmas, Hoffman told friends he feared he would die of a heroin overdose weeks before his body was found on the floor of his Manhattan bathroom with a needle sticking out of his left arm.
The star, who was found on Sunday with 70 bags of heroin and 20 used needles in his home, returned to AA in December after relapsing into three-day binges.
When asked how serious his addiction was, he replied: 'If I don't stop now, I know I'm going to die.'
On Monday, friends made the difficult revelation that Hoffman's problems with drugs and drink had become so bad he lost his family.
Refuting all suggestions that the 46-year-old had been kicked out by his partner of 14-years because of an affair - friends confirmed that Hoffman had been asked to leave for the sake of his three children as he battled his demons.
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'It was known that he was struggling to stay sober, and girlfriend Mimi O’Donnell had given him some tough love and told him he needed some time away from the kids and to get straight again,’ a Hollywood source told the New York Post.
Hoffman and O'Donnell had three children together, a 10-year-old son named Cooper and daughters Tallulah, 7, and Willa, 5.
'They were living separate lives,’ a law-enforcement source said of Hoffman and O’Donnell. He was living over here, she was living over there. You do the math.’
'He was apparently in the throes of a major heroin addiction’ when he died, the source said, adding that there was no evidence of another woman.
'Sex is the last thing on your mind’ when you’re so drug-addicted, the source said. 'Your sex is your drugs.'
Devoted father Hoffman moved only a few blocks away from the home he had shared with his partner and children around three months ago according to the New York Post.
The superstar began to rent a $10,000 a month two bedroom apartment in Manhattan's West Village - less than three blocks from his former home.
He had entered rehab in May of 2013 for 10 days after he admitted he had relapsed after more than 20 years of sobriety and was now snorting heroin.
Kicked out: Tragic Oscar winner Philip
Seymour Hoffman had separated from his longtime girlfriend Mimi
O'Donnell, pictured with the actor in 2008, in the months leading up to
his death because she couldn't handle his heroin addiction said friends
Last known pictures: Philip Seymour Hoffman -
pictured here at theSundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah on January
19, where he was promoting his films A Most Wanted Man and God's
Pocket - is being
mourned by fans and fellow actors after his sad death from a heroin
overdose on Sunday
Drinking: Philip Seymour Hoffman was seen at an
Atlanta bar on January 30th - three days before he died - and were taken
by a diner who said the Oscar winning actor was drinking, smoking and
making repeated suspicious trips to the bathroom
Kicked out: Tragic Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman had separated from his longtime girlfriend Mimi O'Donnell, pictured with the actor in 2008, in the months leading up to his death because she couldn't handle his heroin addiction said friends
It seems that Hoffman began using drugs again at least before Christmas and one person who was on the same 5.30 am flight as Hoffman out of Los Angeles International Airport in January claimed he saw him drinking heavily on the plane.
Indeed, just three days before he was discovered dead, Hoffman was seen looking, 'drunk, disheveled and shifty' in a downtown Atlanta bar, according to TMZ.
He was witnessed making 'multiple' conspicuous trips to the bathroom and on the flight home from Atlanta he was photographed passed out.
The 46-year-old actor was meant to collect his children from O'Donnell at their former family home on Jane Street in Manhattan on Sunday - but failed to show.
O'Donnell told police that she had last seen the actor on the streets of the West Village on Satuday afternoon and then spoke to him on the telephone at 10 pm - and he seemed high during both occasions.
When Hoffman didn't arrive to collect his children O'Donnell phoned the actor's friend, David Bar Katz and the Oscar winner's personal assistant, British film maker, Isabella Wing-Davey to check on him.
they made the horrifying discovery inside Hoffman's drug den at around 11am on Sunday.
When O'Donnell was told that he had been discovered slumped on the bathroom floor she put her kids in her car, rushed to the West Village apartment and left her children in the running vehicle as she dashed inside, shouting, 'I have to see him!'
'He was cold' and had been there 'for hours,' sources said.
Police initially barred Miss O'Donnell from the scene, but she was later allowed to enter the building and appeared teary-eyed.
After remaining in the apartment all day, the actor's body was finally taken from his home just before 7 p.m.
The medical examiner is set to perform an autopsy today to determine the cause of death on Tuesday.
If those tests come back with results showing the heroin dose was tainted - sources said the case could graduate from 'suspicious death' to possible homicide.
According to police sources who spoke to CNN, Hoffman had in his possession, the blood-pressure medication clonidine hydrochloride; the addiction-treatment drug buprenorphine; Vyvanse, a drug used to treat attention-deficit (hyperactivity) disorder; hydroxyzine, which can be used to treat anxiety; and methocarbamol, a muscle relaxer.
Risk: The lethal concoction - also referred to as 'Theraflu' - has been linked to more than 100 deaths in the US
In fact, Hoffman's drug habit had allegedly escalated to upwards of $10,000 a month and his preferred narcotics were heroin and the prescription drug Oxycontin.
'He was what we call a heavy ‘red liner,’ the source told Radar.
'That means he liked to shoot heroin with a needle, but he also sniffed it daily. And he was majorly hooked on Oxy, too.'
The source told Radar that Hoffman had fallen so far off the wagon after his stint in rehab in May that he was buying bricks of heroin at a time.
'He just bought five bundles of dope last week,' the source claimed.
A bundle is equal to 10 bags of heroin, and there are five bundles in a brick.
'Heroin is one of the cheaper drugs, but Hoff wasn’t buying the cheap stuff,' the source said.
Regardless of how much Hoffman was spending on drugs, the actor did dine out with friends the evening before his death - enjoying a cheeseburger and cranberry and soda at at West Village restaurant Automatic Slims.
They usually contain a lethal mix of heroin laced with fentanyl - an opiate used to soothe the pain of cancer patients.
Police are investigating whether the Oscar award-winning actor may have died after injecting the lethal concoction and are awaiting the results of his autopsy.
Rumors had begun in August that Hoffman's rehab had failed after he dropped out of the spy thriller, Child 44, to be replaced by French actor Vincent Cassel in the film version of Tom Rob Smith's 1950s novel starring Noomi Rapace and Tom Hardy.
No reason was given then, but many simply assumed his well documented addictions had resurfaced.
When asked about his recent split from long-term girlfriend Mimi O’Donnell, with whom Phil has three young children, Meg said: ‘Whatever was going on they kept it very quiet, all I knew is that Phil was a devoted father and was especially close to his son. He saw the children every day.’
Describing Mimi as a ‘fantastic costume designer and wonderful mother’, Meg told how Mimi had run the Labryinth Theater in New York when Philip took a leave of absence, saying: ‘She’s a fantastic person.’
In a touching gesture, Australian actress Cate Blanchett appeared teary eyed as she arrived at the apartment Hoffman once shared with O'Donnell - just a block and-a-half from the apartment he was found dead in.
Carrying bags, including a telescope - presumably for Hoffman’s children, the Oscar winner emerged from a black Cadillac and with the help of an assistant.
Blanchett declined comment.
Describing Mimi as a ‘fantastic costume designer and wonderful mother’, Meg told how Mimi had run the Labryinth Theater in New York when Philip took a leave of absence, saying: ‘She’s a fantastic person.’
In a touching gesture, Australian actress Cate Blanchett appeared teary eyed as she arrived at the apartment Hoffman once shared with O'Donnell - just a block and-a-half from the apartment he was found dead in.
Carrying bags, including a telescope - presumably for Hoffman’s children, the Oscar winner emerged from a black Cadillac and with the help of an assistant.
Blanchett declined comment.
blanchett, who worked with Hoffman on the 1999 movie, The Talented Mr Ripley is also up for another Oscar this year for her part in the Woody Allen movie, Blue Jasmine.
A neighbor at the $4.4 million apartment Mr Hoffman and Miss O'Donnell owned together in Jane Street, less than three blocks away from his rental home, described him as 'a troubled soul' to the New York Post.
The couple bought the three-bedroom, 2-1/2-bath apartment in 2008.
'He did not look well recently — like he was out of it,' the woman said. 'I think him and his woman friend were off and on.'
'He lived down here for a long time and was well liked, but everyone knew he had substance-abuse problems,' she added.
Just over a week ago, Mr Hoffman was spotted in the audience at the Broadway revival of 'Waiting for Godot.'
Mr Hoffman won the best actor Academy Award for the 2005 film, Capote, and has been hailed by the film industry as one of the finest actors of his generation.
The Fairport, New York, native reportedly told TMZ in May that he began taking heroin again after 23 years of being clean. He said he'd progressed from prescription pills to ultimately snorting heroin.
He claimed that he only used heroin for a week before he realized he needed help and checked himself into a detox facility on the East Coast.
He spent 10 days receiving treatment and credited a 'great group of friends and family' for helping.
'I saw him last week, and he was clean and sober, his old self,' Mr Katz, a screenwriter, told the New York Times Sunday. He said he called 911 after finding Mr Hoffman. 'I really thought this chapter was over.'
Interest: Members of the media stand outside the
apartment of movie actor Philip Seymour Hoffman after he was found dead
in New York February 2, 2014
The family of the actor issued a statement to the media in the aftermath of his death to thank everyone for their support.
'We are devastated by the loss of our beloved Phil and appreciate the outpouring of love and support we have received from everyone. This is a tragic and sudden loss and we ask that you respect our privacy during this time of grieving.
'Please keep Phil in your thoughts and prayers.'
In 2006, Mr Hoffman admitted his history of substance abuse after he graduated from NYU's drama school.
'It was all that drugs and alcohol, yeah. It was anything I could get my hands on…I liked it all,' he told 60 Minutes at the time.
