What happened to Anna Nicole Smith’s son Daniel Wayne Smith?

Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me is now available to watch on Netflix, and the documentary offers a previously unseen look at the larger-than-life model, actress, media personality, and constant tabloid fixture.

The documentary includes footage that hasn’t been seen before and tracks the life and death of Anna Nicole Smith. You Don’t Know Me covers her beginnings in the industry, her marriages, her court battles, and various tragedies, including the 2006 death of her son Daniel Wayne Smith.

In April 1985 at the age of 17, Smith married 16-year-old Billy Wayne Smith. The following January, Smith gave birth to their son, Daniel Wayne Smith. One year after their son’s birth, the couple separated before ultimately divorcing in 1993.

She began modeling for Playboy in 1992 and went on to star in campaigns for Guess and H&M and landing magazine covers. Following her 1994 marriage to 89-year-old billionaire J. Howard Marshall, Anna Nicole Smith’s career and personal troubles took off. What happened to her son?

What was Daniel Wayne Smith’s cause of death?

Anna Nicole Smith’s son Daniel Wayne Smith appeared in her E! Network reality series The Anna Nicole Smith Show, though his appearances were later limited. He was said to have been attending Los Angeles Valley College the summer before his death.

On Sept. 10, 2006, Daniel passed away in his mother’s hospital room in the Bahamas while visiting his mother, three days after she gave birth to his half-sister Dannielynn. You Don’t Know Me reaffirms the confirmed reports that Daniel’s cause of death was an accidental overdose of a fatal combination of methadone and two antidepressants. He was 20 years old.

Follow his tragic passing, there were investigations and inquests into his cause of death that ultimately led to the conclusion of the accidental drug overdose. Just over four months after Dannielynn’s birth and Daniel’s death, Smith passed away of an accidental drug overdose, though the substances weren’t the same.

Watch Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me only on Netflix.