Larry Birkhead: Anna Nicole's drugs 'were kind of overwhelming'

Larry Birkhead, the father of Anna Nicole Smith's daughter, took the witness stand today and testified he regularly saw Smith take prescription drugs such as methadone and spotted bottles of valium and other narcotics in her home. Birkhead was at a preliminary hearing in L.A. to decide if three people should be tried for supplying the ex-model with drugs.

But Birkhead elaborated in an interview with Entertainment Tonight, saying Ann Nicole would often take more than she should. "Sometimes if one said take two pills three times a day, she'd take four pills six times a day," he says.

Recalling the 2004 American Music Awards, he says, "The night before she went into seizures and the next day she wanted to present this award so she took something to offset the seizures and it caused her to be loopy. The amounts of prescriptions were kind of overwhelming to me, not being used to that kind of stuff. But to see some of the things that I saw it didn't make me happy, and that was what kind of led up to some of the tension that led to our breakup."

By Mario Anzuoni, Reuters