Bartusiak, who starred as Mel Gibson’s young daughter in The Patriot (2000), was found in her bed by her boyfriend in Houston, Texas, on 19 July at the age of 21.
An autopsy report by the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences confirms that the primary cause of death was “combined toxic effects of hydrocodone and difluoroethane with carisoprodol” and that the manner of the death was an “accident”.