Smith’s ex-boyfriend testifies he tried to curb drug use

ANNA Nicole Smith’s ex-boyfriend testified yesterday that he tried to curb the former centrefold’s drug use and the judge referred to her long-time companion, Howard K Stern, as “maybe an enabler”.

Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin began the sixth day of a hearing to decide the fate of Smith’s body with a long diatribe, saying she lacked a strong support system and speculated her relationships with estranged mother Virgie Arthur and ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead soured because of her overuse of prescription drugs.

“We have Stern. Is he a bad guy or is he a fellow that has some form of a love for her? We don’t know,” Judge Seidlin said. “Whatever relationship he had with her, he would be called maybe an enabler.”