Death of Julia Roberts’ sister Nancy Motes is ruled a suicide and NOT an accidental overdose

The death of Julia Roberts' half-sister in February was a suicide, coroner's officials said today.

An autopsy and toxicology tests determined that Nancy Motes drowned in a bathtub after taking several drugs that have not yet been publicly identified.
Los Angeles coroner's spokesman Craig Harvey said the drugs will be listed in a full autopsy report that could be released as early as next week.

Harvey said 37-year-old Motes left behind a suicide note and that it will be turned over to her family.
Motes was the younger sister of actress Julia Roberts and actor Eric Roberts.
A receptionist for Julia Roberts' publicist, Marcy Engelman, said Engelman was out of the country and unavailable to comment and that no one else was available.

The coroner's official ruling comes a week-and-a-half after Roberts gave a eulogy at her half-sister's memorial service.

Witnesses said the superstar had some 'harsh' and 'bizarre' words for Nancy Motes on May 3, according to the National Enquirer, and shocked mourners as she let loose all the anger she felt toward her sister whose suicide note detailed their strained relationship.

The source said: 'Julia said that, as her sister, she just wanted to "wring" her neck because she didn't wait to see the joy that comes with the morning.'

The death of Julia Roberts' half-sister in February was a suicide, coroner's officials said today.

An autopsy and toxicology tests determined that Nancy Motes drowned in a bathtub after taking several drugs that have not yet been publicly identified.
Los Angeles coroner's spokesman Craig Harvey said the drugs will be listed in a full autopsy report that could be released as early as next week.

Harvey said 37-year-old Motes left behind a suicide note and that it will be turned over to her family.
Motes was the younger sister of actress Julia Roberts and actor Eric Roberts.
A receptionist for Julia Roberts' publicist, Marcy Engelman, said Engelman was out of the country and unavailable to comment and that no one else was available.

The coroner's official ruling comes a week-and-a-half after Roberts gave a eulogy at her half-sister's memorial service.

Witnesses said the superstar had some 'harsh' and 'bizarre' words for Nancy Motes on May 3, according to the National Enquirer, and shocked mourners as she let loose all the anger she felt toward her sister whose suicide note detailed their strained relationship.

The source said: 'Julia said that, as her sister, she just wanted to "wring" her neck because she didn't wait to see the joy that comes with the morning.'

John Dilbeck, the fiance, told RadarOnline that he, along with many of Motes' friends, were not invited to the funeral held in Smyrna, Georgia.

'It really hurts,' he told the website. 'I was very frustrated and hurt by it. I needed to voice being hurt, because Nancy's voice is being silenced.'

Motes would not have even wanted Roberts at the ceremony, Dilbeck said. 

'No one was really expecting it, but Julia gave a little speech at one point during the ceremony,’ a source told MailOnline of the star's eulogy.

Roberts has been hit with harsh criticism since Motes died from a drug overdose in February, but on Saturday, she showed her true feelings by attending the hour and twenty minute service in the blazing Georgia heat.

With the rest of the mourners already assembled, the Oscar winner pulled up in a white SUV with her mom, her sister Lisa and a driver.

Wearing a black dress, a beige cardigan, beige handbag and black over-sized sunglasses, she jumped out of the car and tightly hugged friends and family.

After greeting all of the other guests, she made her way down to the shaded burial area, covered with a green tent, helping her elderly mother, 79, who is battling cancer. Brother Eric Roberts was not spotted at the ceremony.

The devastated pair then took their position at the front of the congregation.

After the ceremony, Julia, 46, was one of the last to leave the New Symrna Cemetery, staying back to casually chat with old friends who she hadn’t seen in years.

Julia embraced and comforted a number of other mourners, before getting back into the SUV and heading to a nearby hotel for a low key wake, where she also said a few words.