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Southern Charm’s Olivia Flowers Reveals Brother’s Cause of Death _ E! News
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11/6/2023
Southern Charm’s Olivia Flowers Reveals Brother’s Cause of Death _ E! News
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Olivia Flowers is opening up about her brother's unexpected death.
00:05
According to the Southern Charm Star, the coroner ruled that 32-year-old Connor Flowers
00:11
died from an accidental overdose of fentanyl on January 30th, years after being prescribed
00:18
opioids to treat chronic pain stemming from a long-time battle with Lyme disease.
00:24
In an interview published November 1st, Olivia tells People,
00:28
"My brother hated talking about his illness. So many people, even in his close circle,
00:33
didn't know about his Lyme." The reality star says debilitating symptoms
00:39
first surfaced when he was 15 and that, quote, "Connor was just told over and over, 'It's all
00:45
in your head. You're fine,' and was given painkillers and medicine for his associated anxiety."
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Olivia continues, "He started depending at a very young age on this prescription medicine
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to feel normal." The Bravo personality says Connor became addicted, and when he finally
01:03
found a specialist who could help him with his illness, quote, "Not only was he getting
01:08
treatment for Lyme, but he was also in rehab dealing with getting off this medicine."
01:14
Nobody wanted to get better more than Connor did, but for years, he was just in and out of
01:19
rehab trying so hard to get on the other side of this. Olivia adds, "People, when they hear
01:25
words like 'rehab' or 'drugs,' they assume the worst, but these weren't substances he turned to
01:31
for partying. This was medicine. This is what made him feel normal." In fact, she notes Connor was,
01:37
quote, "completely clean" just weeks before his death, when her family traveled to Arizona to
01:43
visit him at the wellness center where he was staying. But in late January, one week before
01:49
his 33rd birthday, her brother never showed up to dinner at their family's home in South Carolina.
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She explains that Connor had a relapse that turned fatal. "So again, to hear he died of a
02:02
fentanyl overdose, there's immediately going to be this assumption that he was partying. Connor
02:07
wasn't like that. This was his means to survive." Calling the loss heartbreaking, Olivia concludes,
02:14
"There are these holes in the healthcare system, and my brother fell into one."
02:20
"I'm just so grateful for Connor's death. I'm so grateful for his recovery. I'm so grateful for his family."
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