Mina Brees died of drug overdose

[Dances With Gophers]

Mina Brees died of drug overdose

GRANBY, Colo. -- The death of the mother of New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees has been ruled a suicide.

Mina Brees, an attorney from Austin, Texas, died Aug. 7 while visiting Colorado. Grand County coroner Brenda Bock concluded this week that the 59-year-old Brees died of a prescription drug overdose and ruled the death a suicide.

Bock said Brees died while staying at the home of a friend in Granby near Rocky Mountain National Park.

It took longer than three months for autopsy results to be released, but Bock said that's typical for cases involving toxicology tests.

The Austin American Statesman reported that three days before Brees died, the Texas attorney general's office subpoenaed her business records.

She had allegedly sent letters to some restaurants in Austin and Houston stating that they had lost their rights to use their names to a company she represented, Chicksports, but they could win the rights back by paying up to $25,000. She was also the president of Chicksports but that wasn't mentioned in the letter.

Relations between Drew Brees and his mother were strained at times and the quarterback asked her to stop using his picture in TV commercials touting her candidacy for a Texas appeals court seat in 2006.

Mina Brees said she had not anticipated upsetting her son and sent out replacement commercials omitting mention of him.

At the time, Drew Brees called his relationship with his mother "nonexistent," saying it crumbled six years earlier when he refused to hire her as his agent.

Austin attorney Marty Akins, the brother of Mina Brees, declined comment late Friday.

More prayers go out to Brees and his family.

My cousin in Austin was a classmate of Brees @ his HS; apparently, everyone there knows about the weird relationship; I think it started when Brees got married - his wife created a LOT of the strain betwixt Drew and his mom (leading up to that picture/image broo-haha thingydohickey; reportedly was the wife's idea?)

[therevK29]

The circle of life...

Though it sounds like ol' Drew didn't really give a shit about mama. And if he is that manipulated by his wife, they can both just go to Hell.

Yeah, I said it.

Hell.

[Dances With Gophers]

Why would you want them both to go to Iowa??? That's just harsh.

[iuhoosiers23]

Well, maybe the Saints will lose this week, because Brees has a heavy heart, which will help my Colts.

[Nate]

I'm sure this will hurt Brees but I read a year or two ago that Drew and his mother did not get along much. He got really upset with her when she tried to use him in her political campaign in Texas.

Sad news though. I like Drew Brees.

Edit: Didn't see that this was already mentioned in the article. Oops.