Shocking Facts We Learned About Prince After His Death

According to interviews unsealed in the April 2018 document dump, Prince's longtime friend and confidante Kirk Johnson revealed that in the last weeks of the rocker's life, it became apparent to those closest to him that he'd been hiding a serious addiction. Johnson said that after noticing changes in Prince's "behavior" and "mood," he suspected something was up. "That's why I took the initiative and said let's go to my doctor because you haven't been to the doctor, let's check it all out," Johnson told investigators.

That's when Prince visited Dr. Schulenburg, who wrote Prince a prescription for Percocet in Johnson's name a week later. The same day Schulenburg wrote the script, Prince's flight back to Minnesota from Atlanta had to make an emergency landing in Illinois when he'd become unresponsive. Prince was revived with "two doses of a drug that reverses effects of an opioid overdose," according to The Chicago Tribune, and he was later vague with health officials about what kind drugs he had taken. He'd also "refused routine overdose testing."

Six days later and seeking treatment for flu symptoms, Prince was back in Schulenburg's clinic, where a urinalysis of the singer later tested "positive for opioids." This triggered Prince "staffers" to contact Dr. Howard Kornfeld, an addiction specialist from California, who immediately flew his son, Andrew, to Prince's Paisley Park home in Minnesota with the intention of treating him for opioid addiction.

Unfortunately, it was too late, and by the time Andrew Kornfeld arrived the next day, he would end up being part of the group who discovered Prince's dead body.

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