EX BODYGAURD SAYS HOWARD K. STERN CRUSHED, COOK & INJECTED ANNA NICOLE SMITH WITH VALIUM!

LOS ANGELES - A former bodyguard for Anna Nicole Smith testified Wednesday that he saw Smith's lawyer-boyfriend Howard K. Stern cook a crushed Valium pill on a spoon and suck the liquid into a syringe for the Playboy pinup in October 2006 -- four months before her fatal overdose.
Maurice Brighthaupt said the episode unfolded in Smith's Bahamas bathroom as the tragic model rested naked in the adjoining bedroom. He said Smith had been "begging" for drugs to help her deal with the shocking overdose death of her 20-year-old son Daniel three days after the birth of her daughter Dannielynn on Sept. 7, 2006.

"I saw him drawing up liquid from the spoon that was being cooked," Brighthaupt testified during a preliminary hearing for Stern, 40, and two doctors facing drug conspiracy charges.

"She couldn't swallow," Brighthaupt said. "Anna and Howard felt if they put it in the blood system that it would get into her system quicker."

Brighthaupt said he saw Stern inject Smith with medications "four or five" times in the period between Daniel's Sept. 10 death and Smith's own lethal overdose on Feb. 8, 2007, at the age of 39.

The bodyguard, who tried unsuccessfully to revive Smith on the day she died, said he saw Smith's neighbor Dr. Khristine Eroshevich, 61, deliver chloral hydrate to the Bahamas and inject Smith on at least one occasion.

Prosecutors allege Stern, Eroshevich and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor supplied Smith with excessive amounts of powerful prescription drugs knowing she was as addict. They pleaded not guilty.

"Prescription medications were never injected by Howard K. Stern," Stern's lawyer Steven Sadow said outside court. He said Smith got regular B12 vitamin shots and that Brighthaupt changed his statements after receiving money for media interviews.

"Howard K. Stern loved Anna. He was concerned about Anna's welfare. That's why he wanted to make certain that the doctors prescribed the right medication," Sadow said. "He was always with Anna, and it was his hope that Anna would take the medication as she was supposed to to control her pain. She needed to manage her pain."

He said it hard to help Smith after Daniel died.

"Anna had gone into such a state of despair and depression that people wondered about her mental well-being and her physical well-being," he said.

"Khristine cared deeply about Anna and would never do anything to hurt her," Eroshevich's lawyer Adam Braun told the Daily News. "Anna was suffering an acute psychological episode, and Dr. Eroshevich did the best she could to assist her."