Saturday, July 4, 2026

KTLA Anchor Chris Burrous’s Cause of Death: Tragic Secret Life Led to Gruesome End for Popular Personality

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The cause of death has been revealed for KTLA anchor Chris Burrous. It’s a gruesome story about a tragic death and a sordid secret life.

A couple of weeks ago I heard from a source how Burrous died and how he was found. It was so awful I couldn’t bring myself to write it. Now, however,it’s all come out.

The cause of death was methamphetamine toxicity. Other contributing factors included hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. This is a meth overdose.

But the situation was sexual, and it was pretty horrible. Could it have been a surprise to his wife or co-workers? Burrous was found in a Days Inn motel after a fairly awful hook up with either a drug dealer or male hooker or combination. More graphic details can be found at TheBlast.com. I am not repeating it here.

The tragedy is that Burrous– who seemed happy go lucky, always “up,” a nice family guys — lived this again horrible secret life in pain and misery. It’s just mind blowing. Now we see why his family raced to raise money on gofundme before the truth got out. They knew there might be a problem with life insurance or other payouts.

I knew there was a “cover up” going on, but no people should suffer this way.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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