John Lear posted this on Facebook yesterday.
The Truth About My Friend Art BellA couple of days ago I got a call from a close friend who released me from my promise to keep everything I knew about Art Bells passing a secret. I don’t know exactly what has changed but my friend released me from the secret and so here goes.
My friend Art Bell committed suicide April 13, 2018. Art killed himself with an overdose of prescription pain killers which included oxycodone and hydrocodone, the sedative diazepam and the muscle-relaxant carisoprodol in his system, according to Clark County Coroner John Fudenberg.
You and I will never know the final thoughts that drove Art to take his own life but I suspect it had something to do with an affair he was having that someone was threatening to expose.
Art left a recording, in his own voice, a will, that outlined 40 specific instructions about what he wanted done after this passing. Art left well over $10 million in his estate.
Please don’t ask me for any additional information because I don’t have any. Art and I weren’t all that close after 911 because he had trouble accepting it was an inside job.
But Art has always given me credit for starting him on the road the paranormal which led him to millions of listeners world wide.
John Lear July 25, 2020https://www.facebook.com/JohnOlsenLear/posts/1224865587905992