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It's so true in life, I believe,

that when we stop
chasing illusions

and go after the truth,

life can be so wonderful.

♪♪

♪♪

Hey, everyone.
I'm Hill Harper.

Welcome to
"How It Really Happened."

He was born
Prince Rogers Nelson.

His childhood nickname
was "Skipper."

Over the course of his career,
the world knew him as Prince,

the Purple One, the Artist
Formerly Known As Prince,

a symbol and once again, Prince.

His towering fame didn't just
come from his musical genius

but also from the many mysteries
of his personal life

and perhaps the deepest
secret of all

was the one
that caused Prince to pass.

For many of us,
it's hard to comprehend

how a man who had
millions of fans

could come to an agonizing end
all alone in an elevator.

Prince was a brilliant artist

who created music
to entertain and stimulate,

and his songs that won
over fans worldwide

Came from a profoundly
personal place --

his great faith.

♪♪

I pretty much wanted to be
dependent upon God,

and when you get the inner
calling to do something,

and you know that you're
being inspired by God,

you pretty much know
you better answer that call.

♪♪

Sidner: On April 7th, lots of
people excited in Atlanta --

Prince is coming to town,

and he's gonna do
a couple of concerts.

And I think his last tour
was just piano and microphone.

Sidner: But the day that the
concert was supposed to happen,

everyone started getting news.

Something wasn't right.

Reporter: Happening now,
hundreds of Prince fans

are waiting to learn
the new date

for two concerts postponed
tonight at the Fox Theater

because the performer
is sick with the flu.

Dr. Pinsky: He may have thought
he had the flu. He did not.

Jones: Everybody, you know,
had a sense of alarm.

He is not a guy
who cancels concerts.

You know, he could perform sick
as a dog,

and nobody would know it,
I mean, sick as a dog.

Sidner: On that very same day,
he saw a doctor

named Michael Todd Shulenberg,
and some tests were done,

and so the concerts got
canceled, people disappointed.

Jones:
When he had to cancel the show,

he wanted me to help
with the press release

because he just felt badly
about not doing the show.

Sidner: He comes back, and he
does these powerful concerts,

long concerts.

One of the things
that made fans go wild

is when he played
"Purple Rain."

♪ Only want to see you ♪

♪ Laughing in the purple rain ♪

♪ Purple rain ♪

♪ Purple rain ♪

And, afterwards,

the crowd explodes and stands up

and is clapping and cheering,
and they're touched by it,

you know,
genuinely touched by it.

After those two
amazing concerts,

Prince tweets a quote
from a fan,

saying, "I am transformed."

He told fans at the Atlanta
concert, his final show,

that, "Stay tuned.

In a few days, you're gonna
see something

that's gonna happen."

Sidner: He gets on his plane
that next day,

and then everything
starts to tumble.

The plane makes
an emergency landing.

Pilot: Chicago, this is 990.
We're leveling on 18.

Dispatcher:
990. Chicago center...

Dr. Pinsky: Well, there was
a forced landing allegedly

because he lost consciousness.

Cymone:
Something is not right.

So when I heard about that,

I just got a really
sinking feeling, you know,

because that just, you know,
didn't make sense to me.

Jones:
When Prince's plane had to land,

I knew about it
before the press did,

and it was scary.
It was a scary moment.

You can hear the pilot
in the plane

talking to the control tower.

He is given,
according to our sources,

he is given a medication
to revive him.

Dr. Pinsky: The fact that he got
a NARCAN shot

when the first responders got
there means he was not awake.

He was unconscious.

The fact that he woke up
from the NARCAN shot

tells me he was unconscious
because of opiates.

[ Siren wailing ]

Sidner: The ambulance comes,
takes him to the hospital.

He leaves, and from
what our sources say,

he leaves prematurely
from the hospital.

Once he's sort of
up and at 'em, he leaves.

Dr. Pinsky:
That's not a doctor's decision.

A physician would not allow
that to happen.

That is a patient leaving
against medical advice,

for sure.

Reporter 2: Prince's reps tell
TMZ he's been battling the flu

for several weeks
and felt considerably worse

after performing
in Atlanta last night.

He was treated and released
three hours after landing

and is now back home.

Dr. Pinsky:
That was not the flu.

You don't land a plane
because of the flu.

Smith: He died on the plane,
and they brought him back.

Somebody's gonna have
to tell me the real story.

They're gonna have to tell me
exactly why you did not,

when you found him on the plane,
stay with him all night long

and have a doctor there
when he got off that plane.

Jones: When Prince would talk
about his childhood,

he would do it
in a campy way often.

You could see underneath there,
you know,

there was some real pain.

Reporter 3: His private jet
makes an unexpected detour,

an emergency landing
in Moline, Illinois,

rushed to the hospital,
but Prince doesn't stay long.

So he goes back home,

and here's where things
get really sort of odd

and I think a lot of us
are scratching our heads.

He is seen that next day

riding his bicycle
in the neighborhood.

And someone takes a video of it.

I looked outside and saw
a gentleman riding a bike

and noticed right away
that it was Prince.

I was actually shocked
to see him riding his bike

after learning that
just the day before,

you know, his plane had landed,
and he wasn't doing well.

The emergency landing,
the hospital stay --

It was all sort of shrouded
in mystery,

but it's not that surprising
because everyone knew Prince

to be a very private person.

He didn't like a lot of his life
to be revealed,

and, in fact,
he had said at one time

that he just wanted his music
to speak for him.

I kind of did what I wanted
to do, you know?

I wanted my music as, even now,
to speak loudest for me.

Halperin: We've seen
some great artists

in the last 100 years.

I don't think anybody
in the pop genre or funk

or R&B holds a candle to Prince.

He took it to a completely
different level,

set a completely different bar.

Levy: I don't think there's
any doubt about

when Prince is at his best.

It's that moment from the work
beginning on "1999"...

♪ So tonight I'm gonna party
like it's 1999 ♪

...to the end
of the "Purple Rain" tour.

That's when he's at his peak.

Every time he turns around,
he's making a hit record.

I saw "Purple Rain" 17 times.

I was absolutely mesmerized
by him, mesmerized.

♪ I only want
to see you laughing ♪

♪ In the purple rain ♪

♪ Purple rain ♪

♪ Purple rain ♪

King: When did you decide
music would be a career?

Well, I learned early on this
was what I wanted to do,

maybe about 12 years old.

I knew that this is what
I'd want to do

the rest of my life, yeah.

Levy: Prince is born
into a musical family.

His father had a jazz group,
the Prince Rogers trio,

so literally, Prince is born
with the name

of his father's
musical ambition.

Sidner:
His mother was a jazz singer.

I don't know how you could not
be musical

with that kind of a family.

When Prince would talk
about his childhood,

he would do it
in a campy way often.

You know, he would sort of,
you know,

make a lot of jokes
and that kind of stuff,

but you could see
underneath there,

you know,
there was some real pain.

Larry King did this interview
with Prince

where he starts asking him

a little bit about his
relationship with his father,

and he says something like,

"Mm, you had
a difficult relationship

or a rough childhood."

You had a rough time
with parent--

I mean, that's all resolved now,
but your father,

you had a rough time
with your father, right?

I wouldn't call it rough.

I mean, he was a very strict
disciplinarian,

but all fathers were.

I learned the difference
between right and wrong.

Prince says, "Well,
I wouldn't call it rough,"

but in the nuance,
you can hear the difficulties.

Halperin: Prince wrote a song
called "Papa,"

and he needed
to write that song.

It was therapeutic for him.

In that song,
you get a glimpse.

He says, "Don't abuse children,
or they'll turn out like me."

You can only assume
he's talking about his own life.

That's what musicians,
that's what actors --

that's what they do.

They talk about their own life
in their music.

Halperin: That's why Prince was
so passionate

about children's rights,

and he was a big advocate
for protecting children.

Levy:
When his parents split up...

-Prince!
-Whoo!

Levy:
...his dad left behind a piano,

and that seems to be

when Prince gravitated
towards music in earnest

and began learning
or teaching himself how to play.

Smith:
Prince learns the guitar,

blows me away because
I'm with him every day.

I'm going like, "Where'd you
learn -- What? How'd you --"

And he said,
"Man, it was easy."

I met Prince in 1970.

I believe he was around
12 years old,

and I was dating his cousin.

When I found out that Prince
played multiple instruments,

I'm going like,
"Well, wait a minute.

This guy plays guitar,
keyboards and bass?"

The first time I met Prince,
I guess I was probably maybe 13,

and I think he either
asked me what I did,

or I asked him what he did,

but he said he did music,
and I said, "So do I, you know,

we should get
together and jam."

So he ends up living
with his mom

and his dad for a little while,

and when he and his dad
have a fight,

he goes to live
with a friend of his,

André Cymone, a bass player
in Prince's first band.

He was kicked out of the house,

or he moved out of the house
when he was somewhere around 13.

He just came, and he's like,
"Man, can I live with you guys?"

And I was like, you know,
it was kind of late, you know?

I was like -- I was like,
"It's fine with me,"

I said, "But you're gonna
have to talk to my mom."

Well, he talked to my mom,

and, you know, they had
a long conversation,

and, you know,
I know my mom was like,

"Well, I'm gonna have
to let your mom know

because I can't just,
you know..."

So my mom talked to his mom.
They worked it out.

Halperin:
I think that Prince felt

he was abandoned
by his mother.

You know, from my experience

from when he came
to live with us,

you know, you know,
we had so much fun growing

that if there was
a sense of abandonment,

I never recognized it
because we were too busy

doing the things that,
you know, teenage kids do.

I think he wound up living
with us six, seven years.

Prince would use you
until he used you up, baby.

[ Laughs ]

But that's how
he had become, though.

Reporter 4:
Over the weekend,

in an event called
Paisley Park After Dark,

Prince just up
and showed up.

It was a very intimate
setting,

and the fans said
something like, "Prince said,

'Save your prayers, at least
for a few days, for me.'"

What does he mean by,

"Save your prayers
for a few days"?

Doesn't that bother anybody?

I think that's a typically
cryptic Prince remark.

He says things that you
have no idea what they mean.

He may have no idea
what they mean.

But he was just
sort of implying --

that was his way
of saying, "Hey.

I'm okay, I'm alive and well,"
I think.

As I go through this journey,

I don't look back much at all.

I try to stay in the now
and live in the now.

No.
I think it keeps you young.

Sidner: In junior high, Prince
decides to form this band

along with a couple
of others --

his best friend, his cousin,
and his best friend's sister,

so his best friend's sister,

Linda, Chaz, his cousin
and André, his best friend.

They name the band
Grand Central.

Cymone: We played anywhere.

If somebody was getting married,
they're having a reception,

you know, "Let's get the band."

"Well, we're having
a book-club meeting.

Let's get the band."

"Oh, we're --" you know,
whatever there --

You know, "We're having
a backyard barbecue.

Let's get the band."

Wilie: All they wanted to do

was be onstage
and play and get girls.

So that Battle-of-the-Band thing
started coming in.

We started battling other groups
and entering contests.

Our manager would put us in,
and we'd wipe everybody out.

Cymone: If you won,
you'd get some money,

but you'd also get,
you know, some studio time.

Husney:
From the very first second

that I heard this demo tape,

I knew it was
something different.

It's one kid.

He just turned 18,
and he's playing everything

and singing everything
and writing everything.

Smith: I heard it and seen it
with my own eyes.

He was built for this.

He was built to be a star.

King:
How did you get famous?

Prince: It started with a lot
of appearances

I was doing in
and about Minneapolis,

and word just spread
about what --

So you were a local name.

Yeah -- what I could do,

and then I was taken out
to Los Angeles

by my first manager
whose name escapes me.

Owen Husney, I guess,
from what they tell me.

I was the guy who sort of
discovered Prince

and got him his first deal
and was his first manager.

Cymone: When Owen came in,
obviously, he signed Prince

and him got a record deal
and did all that stuff,

and, you know, but Owen was
so much more than a manager.

You know, he was a person
with a wealth of knowledge.

Owen Husney called me and said,
"I would love for you

to do pictures
for this amazing new talent

to get him a record deal,
to get him signed."

I knew I wanted to be
at Warner Bros. with Prince.

We wound up with the largest
new-artist signing

in the history
up until that point.

Cymone: We looked at this
as our one shot.

The whole idea was,
at this point,

was for him to do it himself,

you know,
and to record it himself,

and, obviously, I was there,
and, you know, he was billed

as sort of
the one-man-band kind of thing.

He really hadn't had
his persona formed.

He was just real.

He was so open.

He was just Prince.

Husney: This was a man
who knew what he wanted

at a very early age,

and he had the gift
to be able to get it done.

He had that extra something
else, and that was that desire,

and he was not going to fail.

He was not going to fail,
no matter what.

Levy: The story of "For You,"
the first record,

is that Warner Bros.
has signed him

to a guaranteed 3-album deal.

It's actually a good record.

Prince's second album
is self-titled.

He's playing
the instruments again.

By the time we get to
"Dirty Mind,"

album number three, he is making
songs overnight, sometimes.

♪ But, honey, you got me
on my knees ♪

♪ Won't you please let me
lay you down ♪

♪♪

That's the thing
that lets the record company

and the world know that this guy
is in it to win it.

Ladies and gentlemen,
here is Prince.

[ Cheers and applause ]

I remember we were
doing the gig,

the "American Bandstand" gig,
and we were really excited.

Yeah.
You know, "American Bandstand"

is not the first time
that Prince trots out his

difficult-with-the-interviewer
bit.

How many years ago did you
make these demos

and then
have offers on them?

Cymone:
I just think Prince was nervous,

and so when Dick was asking
him those questions, you know,

he wasn't sure what to say.

Did somebody tell me

you played every instrument
on this album?

Is that correct?

Maybe.
Naw.

That's it.
You're very shy.

So, you know,
depending on who you ask,

it was either a put-on,
or he was genuinely nervous.

Sidner:
There's this shy, quiet side

that wants to disappear.

So you have these two distinctly
different personalities,

and they are fascinating,
and that's what draws you in.

As Prince grows,
and this happens

with a lot of
different performers,

as he grows and changes,
some of the people

that surrounded him
at the very beginning

and sort of who grew with him
to a point, all of a sudden,

he sort of cut them off,
if you will.

Cymone: You know, I think,
for the most part,

when I left, it was amicable.

It was very much amicable.

You know, there was issues
of songs because I wanted --

there were songs that
I had written that, you know,

I had recorded in his studio
that I wanted to use as a demo.

He wouldn't allow me
to do that,

so that was not cool,
from my perspective,

but, you know,
I wasn't mad at him, you know?

Okay, I was a little mad.

Willie: So I'm backstage, and I
see Prince's back towards me.

He goes all the way around.

He comes right by me,
right where the stand is,

and I say, "Yo, man.
What's up?"

And he goes, "Hi!"

And he keeps walking.

I went like...

"What?"

Then the bodyguard
comes up to me and says,

"You've got to go."

And then I just said,
"Wow," you know?

It kind of hurt me a little bit.

For whatever reason,

we sort of split apart.

Prince wrote me a letter
at one point,

and he said, "I love you,
and I love your person."

"Maybe I'm giving you
a lot of demands."

Prince would use you
until he used you up, baby.

[ Laughs ]

But that's how
he had become, though.

You know what I'm saying?

It's the nature
of this business,

and unless you have somebody
around you to keep you grounded,

that's what happens.

Sidner: Prince's half brother,
Duane Nelson,

says to his attorney,
Michael B. Padden,

"You know Prince
was taking Percocet."

Welcome back
to "How It Really Happened."

Prince is a legend.

He created all his own music

and on many songs
played every instrument.

He became music royalty,

one of the best-selling artists
of all time

with over 100 million records
sold worldwide,

seven Grammy Awards,
a Golden Globe

and an Academy Award
for the movie "Purple Rain"

for best original score.

And in his first year
of eligibility,

he was inducted into
the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

That kind of purple power will
no doubt stand the test of time.

I have been cool enough to stay
close to people

that know the streets.

You know, I live -- I've always
lived far away from everything.

Minneapolis is, well, you know,
it's Fargo.

In one of Prince's last tweets,
he sends out this message...

So here's this guy
who's obviously

going through
so much in his life,

but he's got such a good
relationship with his fans,

and that goes back
to well before "Purple Rain."

The "Purple Rain" concept...
Prince: Mm-hmm?

...autobiographical?

Semi. Yeah.

Albert Magnoli wrote that,
the script for that.

My whole thing was to --

I really wanted
to chronicle the life

I was living at the time,
which was in an area

that had a lot of great talent
and a lot of rivalries.

"Purple Rain" is a movie made
on Prince's terms.

♪ Purple rain ♪

♪ Purple rain ♪

Sidner: He not only comes up
with the score,

he not only comes up
with the music,

He comes up with the idea
and where to shoot it --

Minneapolis, Minnesota,
not exactly Hollywood.

Come on. Let's go.

I'm not going anywhere.

Loder:
The movie "Purple Rain" was,

or is, like a fairy tale,
like a funk fairy tale,

and it was --
it really lifted you up.

You'd see it, and you'd come
out of the theater feeling

just a little bit different.

Levy:
You're talking about this guy

who makes this music
of unification.

"Dearly beloved, we are
gathered here today..."

♪ Dearly beloved ♪

♪ We are gathered here today ♪

♪ To get through
this thing called life ♪

Levy: I don't know how many
people I married that summer,

but there were a lot of us,

and we got through
this thing called life.

Halperin: He was extremely quiet
behind the scenes,

but when those lights came up,

nobody did it better than him.

[ Cheers and applause ]

Let's face it.

If you look at the moves
he did onstage

in the first
10 years of his career,

I mean, you had to be
a refined athlete

to do something
like that every night.

One, two three!

Paster: If you look
at some of the videos

from "Sign O' the Times"
or from "Love Sexy" or --

I mean, that was pretty
physical stuff he was doing --

Jumping off of stacks,

doing the spins into the splits
three or four times.

Levy: There are those who say
that his injuries go back

to 1985
to the "Purple Rain" tour.

He was rumored to have
a hip issue

and maybe a hip replacement.

He walked with a cane.

We all saw that.

Prince performed at a very,
very, very high level,

and I think he sustained,
you know, some injuries,

and I think for those injuries,
he had to take medication.

I didn't see the pain.
I didn't see the drugs.

Sidner: We know from talking
to an attorney

for one of Prince's
half brothers --

Duane Nelson
was Prince's half brother.

He is now deceased.

He died many years ago,

but Duane
imparted some information

to his attorney long after him
and Prince had a falling out.

Padden:
They basically grew up together,

and throughout their young life,

Duane was someone
who protected Prince.

When Prince became a music star,
he was on the payroll,

and he was Prince's
number-one bodyguard.

Sidner: Duane Nelson says
to his attorney,

Michael B. Padden, "You know
Prince was taking Percocet."

One of his main duties
when he was Prince's bodyguard

was to procure Percocet
for Prince.

Sidner: Another of his siblings,
Lorna Nelson,

also gave similar information
saying that,

"Yes, indeed, Prince had taken
some illicit drugs."

Padden: It became such a
significant issue that Lorna,

who also was estranged
from Prince --

I want to be very clear
about that --

but was very privy to what was
going on in his life,

and I would say
approximately 2004,

it was her belief that Prince
was going to die,

his drug use
was so out of control.

So you have two half siblings
who both share the same story

at different times
in Prince's life.

Unfortunately,
we can't talk to them

because they have both died.

Dr. Pinsky: Prince apparently
had long-standing hip pain.

The nature of the hip injury
is not really clear,

but it would not be
appropriate for him

to take opiates
on a long-term basis

because it will make
the pain worse

and trigger a second problem --
dependency or addiction.

Camerota:
Despite those allegations

from his half siblings
that there was drug use,

there were also people
who were very close to Prince,

had known him
throughout his life

and say they never saw
any drug use whatsoever,

and they were
very shocked by it.

He was so against drugs,
never did any drugs in his life,

didn't drink,
didn't do anything.

He had created a world that was
unlike any other world --

No drugs,
none of that crazy junk.

Prince was skeletal
the last weeks of his life.

He certainly was unhealthy.

People around him should have
woken up

and really seen
the writing on the wall.

John, you were at the party
at Paisley Park

this Saturday that now has
received so much attention.

You also saw him,
I guess,

this past Tuesday
at a jazz club in Minneapolis.

You know,
what was he doing there,

and did he look
all right there?

He was at the Dakota jazz club
in downtown Minneapolis.

He was seeing a performer
by the name of Lizz Wright,

an old folk singer.

He was sitting upstairs
on the balcony

in his kind
of private table

where they pull
the curtains around him.

He walked out single file with
all the people in his entourage.

He had his cane thrust --
kind of slung over his shoulder,

strutting out with
the usual Prince attitude.

Sidner:
There was an image, I think,

that Prince had of himself

that he wanted the world to see,
just like all of us,

and there was a part of him

that was a regular,
flawed human.

He didn't want people to see
that part of him.

How do you handle that aspect
of the media,

which has often given you
trouble, the tabloids?

I don't have trouble
with anybody.

You don't?
But do you read them?
No.

Do you hear about them?
Very seldom.

Do you think any part

of a personality's private
life is our business?

Do you think your marriage
is our business?

Well, you know,
I'm like this.

My music is my music.

That's pretty much
what you come to the party for.

Halperin: Prince was linked

to a plethora
of women in his life.

By all accounts, he probably
slept with thousands of women.

He made the woman who he was
with his queen,

his shining star.

It is so funny because,
you know, Prince is such,

you know, the ladies' man
in the popular imagination,

but I think what people
don't understand is,

Prince really cared
about these women,

like, sometimes
embarrassingly so.

Man, he was just almost
embarrassingly attentive,

and he would try
to keep it cool,

but you're not cool right now.

You know what I mean?
You're not being cool right now.

Prince ends up marrying
Mayte in 1996.

They marry on Valentine's Day.

He clearly loved her,

and evidence of that
is a song he wrote for her,

"The Most Beautiful Girl
in the World."

♪ Could you be ♪

♪ The most beautiful girl
in the world? ♪

And then she got pregnant,

and in late 1996,

they had their first child.

Mayte gave birth to a baby boy,

and the baby was born
with a rare disease,

and the baby only survived
a week and then died,

and that was devastating
to Prince and Mayte.

And many people say
that it was something

that Prince never got over.

Your heart just goes out for --
to anybody that happens to,

and it was such
a terrible thing,

and that's got to mark you.

Halperin:
He really could not get over it.

In fact, he didn't
even acknowledge it.

Like, you look at interviews
with Oprah,

talked about it
like his son was alive.

Oprah: What is the status
of your baby,

your pregnancy?
Your --

Our family exists.

Mm-hmm.

We're just beginning it.
Mm-hmm.

And we've got
many kids to have,

a long way to go.

They talked about their baby boy

as if the child was alive when,
in fact, the child had died.

You're wondering, like,
"What happened?"

And you realize now, they were
in absolute time of mourning,

like deep,
deep sadness and mourning

when they're doing
that interview

because their baby boy had died,

and clearly, they didn't want
to reveal that or talk about it,

and, eventually, Prince
and the most beautiful girl

in the world
ended up divorcing.

Smith: You mean to tell me
my 57-year-old cousin

who weighed 115 pounds
at his death --

that horrified my family.

We were like, "What?
Wait a minute."

I just sat there,

and I was like...
"How can this be?"

Levy: The suspicion
that something was wrong

was one that
he worked to dispel.

He wanted to be seen in public,

and he wanted people to have
the idea that he was well.

On Wednesday, April 20th,
the day before Prince died,

a doctor, a California addiction
specialist

named Dr. Howard Kornfeld
gets a call

from Prince's representatives,
and they are so desperate.

They say that they want
to get Prince into treatment.

It was Prince's people
calling him to say,

"We need help,
and we need it now."

This was an emergency
intervention.

They needed someone there
as fast as possible.

Dr. Kornfeld
has a scheduling conflict,

and he sends his son instead,

who also worked at the clinic,
Andrew Kornfeld.

He sends him to Minneapolis
on a red-eye flight

to meet with Prince,

but he goes there to try to talk
to Prince and meet with Prince

because they realize,
the Kornfeld,

the father and the son,
just how urgent it is.

Why would you
do "something special,"

like call for a doctor
multiple states away?

He is just a few miles

from one of the premier
treatment centers in the world.

Hazelden is around the corner.

It's insane they did not
just take him.

Banfield:
So after flying all night,

Andrew Kornfeld gets to Paisley
Park and bangs on the door.

And, ultimately, Andrew
and a couple of the people there

find Prince unresponsive
in that elevator.

This is CNN breaking news.

Breaking news coverage,
I'm Brooke Baldwin.

A massive loss in the world
of music, pop culture,

art, superstar, music pioneer,
music legend Prince,

has died at the age of 57.

Prince is dead.

He's gone.

And...we're all stunned.

I just sat,
stared at the computer.

I-I couldn't believe it, and
that one sentence that said,

"The body was identified
as Prince Rogers Nelson,"

and I just broke down.

Cymone: I just sat there.

I hung up the phone,

and I just sat there,

and I was like...
"How can this be?

This makes no sense."

Police have released the logs
of dozens of emergency calls

made from Prince's
Paisley Park Studios

as they work
to try to piece together

what happened to the singer.

We're also learning powerful
prescription painkillers

were found on Prince's body

and in his home,
and now, the DEA is on the case.

So clearly, there were
secrets being kept,

and they didn't
want folks to know.

We now know what killed
music superstar Prince.

It was an accidental
opioid overdose,

but there's a lot more
to it than that,

and, in fact, this isn't
the end of the understanding.

It's actually just
the beginning.

The medical examiner's report
reveals that Prince

was on one of the most potent
drugs on the market right now.

It's called fentanyl.

Dr. Pinsky:
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid.

It's been around for many,
many years.

It was designed to be used
for severe pain,

cancer pain, short-term pain.

It is an extremely
powerful opiate.

What we are hearing now, though,

from the Minneapolis
"Star Tribune" sources

is that there were some pills

found inside of the estate
at Paisley Park

and that those pills
were labeled hydrocodone,

and that the pills, when tested,
turned out to be fentanyl.

Dr. Pinsky:
In fact, we're hearing

that the pills were stamped --

they were containing fentanyl
but stamped with a mark

that suggests
hydrocodone or vicodin.

It suggests that was something
obtained on the street.

What he was taking and what
he thought he was taking

and where he got these drugs --

That's a story
that still needs to be told.

Smith: I don't believe it was
an accident

that the bottles
were mislabeled.

I don't believe that.

I don't believe any of
the stories that they told me.

Sidner: Who supplied these
particular pills to Prince?

They can't find
a valid prescription.

So there is a criminal side
to this investigation.

Dr. Pinsky: This, no doubt,

was a slow escalation
into dependency.

He had hip pain, and then,
unfortunately,

these drugs actually
amplify pain over time,

so he would start
to need it during the day.

Then he would start
having trouble sleeping,

and then we does
have trouble sleeping,

we'll add in a benzodiazepine,
add in those hypnotic,

and now, we have
a lethal combination.

So he's on his own
in a big, empty house,

in pain, looking for a way
to relieve the pain,

and that's what kills Prince,
and that's just --

that's not the way
you want any story to end.

Halperin:
How do we get here?

Another pop icon, a tragedy,
found dead mysteriously,

but drugs into play.

I think there's only one answer.

It's enablers who are greedy.

Smith: I always felt like people
keeping him from us,

like they were keeping people
away from Michael Jackson.

Michael Jackson,
they were keeping them away,

and I was warned after
Michael ended up dying,

I was warned the same thing
was gonna

probably happen to Prince.

Prince wasn't Prince anymore.

He wasn't the guy that I knew.

He was just too far up,
too far gone

as far as
in the music industry,

you would say, not as
a musician but as a star.

Did I let him down?

Did he need me,
and I wasn't there?

You know, should I have jumped
on a plane then?

You know, should I have done
this? Should I have done that?

You can't help
but feel that way.

I think all of us feel that way.

There was nobody else there.

There was nobody else
to help him.

I felt bad that I wasn't
there for him.

I loved him.

I was there from day one.

We put this beginning
of this together.

Obviously, after that,
it was his genius, you know?

But we were -- you know, like,
it's really hard to talk about.

Cymone:
It's hard to lose a best friend,

but I think to celebrate
his spirit and,

I guess, you know,
his, you know, his memory,

is to do whatever you can
to keep his music alive.

When he died,
nobody on five continents said,

"Prince who?"

Everybody knows who.

How does one kid own the word
"Prince" and the color purple?

But he did it.

Prince: Everybody has a place
on this Earth,

and I was trying to find out
where my place was,

and I'm really close now,
and I get closer every day.

I love living more now
than I did ever.

Prince's legacy is that his
music will absolutely live on.

He was one of the world's
most famous people,

a musical genius, an ultra
intelligent, sensitive man

and somebody
I considered a friend.

Prince's friends around
the world have always wanted

to hear
the new music in his vault,

a strongbox at Paisley Park

where Prince stored
all the music

he never made public,

but Prince did give up
some hints or secrets.

He said inside the vault,
we'll find some amazing jazz,

the best, headiest tracks
that his band,

The Revolution,
ever recorded,

the more psychedelic-rock
version of his art,

the really erotic Prince,
and, finally,

he said, and I quote,
"We'll find the future."

Thanks for watching,
everybody.

Here's to Prince.
Good night.