'If I don't stop I know I'm going to die': How tragic Philip Seymour Hoffman predicted his fate weeks before fatal heroin overdose as NYPD reveal he withdrew $1200 in 6 transactions at the same ATM on the night before he died

Philip Seymour Hoffman withdrew $1200 in six different transactions on Saturday night from the same ATM accompanied by two unidentified men according to police sources investigating the death of the Oscar winner.
This new development comes after reports Hoffman had been making a string of strange outbursts in the weeks leading up to his death as the star, who had been sober for 23 years, relapsed into the addiction that claimed his life.
Just two weeks ago, the drug addled actor approached a complete stranger at the Sundance Film Festival two weeks ago admitting, 'I'm a heroin addict'.

Heroin addict: Philiip Seymour Hoffman approached a New York publisher at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival in Utah two weeks ago looking 'sloppy' and disheveled admitting that he had a substance abuse problem

Success: Philip Seymour Hoffman is kissed by his girlfriend Mimi O'Donnell after winning the Oscar for Best Actor in 2006 in Hollywood, California and (right) the pair celebrate his greatest professional win at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party afterwards

Father and son: This picture of Philip Seymour Hoffman on the Number 2 train in New York City in November alongside his boy, Cooper, who is 10-years-old

Battle with addiction: This picture of Philip Seymour Hoffman with his sister Emily Hoffman shows the future Oscar winner after his graduation - by his own admission, Hoffman would enter rehab in 1989 after leaving NYU because of his problems with heroin

Father of three: Philip Seymour Hoffman with Mimi O'Donnell son, Cooper, daughter, Tallulah and Willa out and about in New York City in 2009

Day out with dad: Seymour Hoffman and son Cooper Alexander Hoffman seen walking in the West Village in 2011 in New York City - something that Hoffman did less of when he left the family home

The Oscar winner, 46, made the awkward confession to magazine publisher John Arundel because the executive failed to recognize the much-loved star of Capote, Almost Famous and the Ides of March.
When asked what he did for a living, a disheveled Hoffman told Arundel that he was a 'heroin addict' - at which point the actor removed his 'sloppy hat' - causing the businessman to remember he was talking to one of Hollywood's brightest stars.

TIMELINE TO TRAGEDY: THE FINAL HOURS OF PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN

Philip Seymour Hoffman is believed to have first sought treatment for a relapse in May of 2013 but friends and witnesses have claimed that he had relapsed and was injecting heroin before Christmas.
Prior to this the actor had been sober for more than 20-years after battling addiction following his graduation from New York University in 1989
Saturday morning: 8am - Philip Seymour Hoffman gets a four-shot espresso over ice with milk from the Chocolate Bar on 8th Avenue.
Saturday afternoon: 1.30pm - Hoffman speaks to his assistant Isabella Davey-Wing and she claims later that he seemed fine. She also told law enforcement that she visited Hoffman at his home on Friday and the actor was ok.
Saturday afternoon: 2pm - Mimi O'Donnell meets Hoffman on the streets of the West Village and later tells police that she believed he was high
Saturday afternoon: 5pm - Hoffman is seen walking along Greenwich Street by a television producer who says hello and thinks later that Hoffman seemed 'out of it'
Saturday evening: Hoffman has a cheeseburge with two companions at Automatic Slims, a restaurant and bar in the West Village - he does not drink alcohol
Saturday evening: 8pm - Mimi O'Donnell speaks to Hoffman again - this time on the phone - she told police that the actor appeared to be high
Sunday morning 9am - Hoffman fails to collect his three children from Hoffman
Sunday morning 11am - Mimi O'Donnell asks Hoffman's friend, David Katz and his assistant to go to the apartment of the actor. They find him dead in his bathroom
Sunday morning 11.30am - The police are called and O'Donnell is informed of the father of her three children's death

'Oh, you’re Philip Seymour Hoffman,' exclaimed Arundel. 'Bingo!' the actor replied before offering up the further admission, 'I just got out of rehab'.
'Obviously, he wanted people to know he was in recovery mode,’ Arundel said to the New York Post.
And just before Christmas, Hoffman told friends he feared he would die of a heroin overdose weeks before his body was found on the floor of his Manhattan bathroom with a needle sticking out of his left arm.
The star, who was found on Sunday with 70 bags of heroin and 20 used needles in his home, returned to AA in December after relapsing into three-day binges.
When asked how serious his addiction was, he replied: 'If I don't stop now, I know I'm going to die.'
On Monday, friends made the difficult revelation that Hoffman's problems with drugs and drink had become so bad he lost his family.
Refuting all suggestions that the 46-year-old had been kicked out by his partner of 14-years because of an affair - friends confirmed that Hoffman had been asked to leave for the sake of his three children as he battled his demons.
'It was known that he was struggling to stay sober, and girlfriend Mimi O’Donnell had given him some tough love and told him he needed some time away from the kids and to get straight again,’ a Hollywood source told the New York Post.
Hoffman and O'Donnell had three children together, a 10-year-old son named Cooper and daughters Tallulah, 7, and Willa, 5.
'They were living separate lives,’ a law-enforcement source said of Hoffman and O’Donnell. He was living over here, she was living over there. You do the math.’
'He was apparently in the throes of a major heroin addiction’ when he died, the source said, adding that there was no evidence of another woman.
'Sex is the last thing on your mind’ when you’re so drug-addicted, the source said. 'Your sex is your drugs.'
Devoted father Hoffman moved only a few blocks away from the home he had shared with his partner and children around three months ago according to the New York Post.
The superstar began to rent a $10,000 a month two bedroom apartment in Manhattan's West Village - less than three blocks from his former home.

Kicked out: Tragic Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman had separated from his longtime girlfriend Mimi O'Donnell, pictured with the actor in 2008, in the months leading up to his death because she couldn't handle his heroin addiction said friends

Last known pictures: Philip Seymour Hoffman - pictured here at theSundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah on January 19, where he was promoting his films A Most Wanted Man and God's Pocket  -  is being mourned by fans and fellow actors after his sad death from a heroin overdose on Sunday

Passed out: Philip Seymour Hoffman is pictured (left) unconscious on his New York bound flight from Atlanta after spending the afternoon drinking before he boarded and (right) being driven away from the flight by an airport cart on landing in the Big Apple

Drinking: Philip Seymour Hoffman was seen at an Atlanta bar on January 30th - three days before he died - and were taken by a diner who said the Oscar winning actor was drinking, smoking and making repeated suspicious trips to the bathroom

He had entered rehab in May of 2013 for 10 days after he admitted he had relapsed after more than 20 years of sobriety and was now snorting heroin.
It seems that Hoffman began using drugs again at least before Christmas and one person who was on the same 5.30 am flight as Hoffman out of Los Angeles International Airport in January claimed he saw him drinking heavily on the plane.
Indeed, just three days before he was discovered dead, Hoffman was seen looking, 'drunk, disheveled and shifty' in a downtown Atlanta bar, according to TMZ.
He was witnessed making 'multiple' conspicuous trips to the bathroom and on the flight home from Atlanta he was photographed passed out.
The 46-year-old actor was meant to collect his children from O'Donnell at their former family home on Jane Street in Manhattan on Sunday - but failed to show.
O'Donnell told police that she had last seen the actor on the streets of the West Village on Satuday afternoon and then spoke to him on the telephone at 10 pm - and he seemed high during both occasions.
When Hoffman didn't arrive to collect his children O'Donnell phoned the actor's friend, David Bar Katz and the Oscar winner's personal assistant, British film maker, Isabella Wing-Davey to check on him.

Bearing gifts: Oscar winning actress Cate Blanchett arrives at the Jane Street home of Philip Seymour Hoffman and his partner of 14-years, Mimi O'Donnell to drop gifts off for the tragic pair's three children

Friends: Philip Seymour Hoffman was reportedly found dead on Sunday morning by his friend David Bar Katz (center) who is pictured with another friend George Liberatto in 2008

Distraught: Philip Seymour Hoffman's assistant, Isabelle Wing Davies enters the building where his ex-partner Mimi O'Donnell lives with their children the day after the actor's tragic death

They made the horrifying discovery inside Hoffman's drug den at around 11am on Sunday.
When O'Donnell was told that he had been discovered slumped on the bathroom floor she put her kids in her car, rushed to the West Village apartment and left her children in the running vehicle as she dashed inside, shouting, 'I have to see him!'
'He was cold' and had been there 'for hours,' sources said.
Police initially barred Miss O'Donnell from the scene, but she was later allowed to enter the building and appeared teary-eyed.
After remaining in the apartment all day, the actor's body was finally taken from his home just before 7 p.m.
The medical examiner is set to perform an autopsy today to determine the cause of death on Tuesday.
If those tests come back with results showing the heroin dose was tainted - sources said the case could graduate from 'suspicious death' to possible homicide.

According to police sources who spoke to CNN, Hoffman had in his possession, the blood-pressure medication clonidine hydrochloride; the addiction-treatment drug buprenorphine; Vyvanse, a drug used to treat attention-deficit (hyperactivity) disorder; hydroxyzine, which can be used to treat anxiety; and methocarbamol, a muscle relaxer.

Risk: The lethal concoction - also referred to as 'Theraflu' - has been linked to more than 100 deaths in the US

The depth of Hoffman's addiction was so deep according to RadarOnline that his death was not a shock to any of his family.
In fact, Hoffman's drug habit had allegedly escalated to upwards of $10,000 a month and his preferred narcotics were heroin and the prescription drug Oxycontin.
'He was what we call a heavy ‘red liner,’ the source told Radar.
'That means he liked to shoot heroin with a needle, but he also sniffed it daily. And he was majorly hooked on Oxy, too.'
The source told Radar that Hoffman had fallen so far off the wagon after his stint in rehab in May that he was buying bricks of heroin at a time.
'He just bought five bundles of dope last week,' the source claimed.
A bundle is equal to 10 bags of heroin, and there are five bundles in a brick.
'Heroin is one of the cheaper drugs, but Hoff wasn’t buying the cheap stuff,' the source said.
Regardless of how much Hoffman was spending on drugs, the actor did dine out with friends the evening before his death - enjoying a cheeseburger and cranberry and soda at at West Village restaurant Automatic Slims.

Film festival: Philip Seymour Hoffman at Sundance on January 18, with his British assistant Isabella Wing-Davey (on the actor's left in black hat) who discovered his body on Sunday in Manhattan 

Entourage: Philip Seymour Hoffman pictured his assistant Isabella Wing-Davey (on his left in the black hat) and actor Mad Men actor John Slattery (in front of the group)

But just hours later according to NYPD sources, Hoffman was discovered by investigators surrounded by up 50 bags of heroin and prescription drugs inside his apartment stamped with Ace of Spades' and 'Ace of Hearts'.
They usually contain a lethal mix of heroin laced with fentanyl - an opiate used to soothe the pain of cancer patients.
Police are investigating whether the Oscar award-winning actor may have died after injecting the lethal concoction and are awaiting the results of his autopsy.
Rumors had begun in August that Hoffman's rehab had failed after he dropped out of the spy thriller, Child 44, to be replaced by French actor Vincent Cassel in the film version of Tom Rob Smith's 1950s novel starring Noomi Rapace and Tom Hardy.
No reason was given then, but many simply assumed his well documented addictions had resurfaced.

There have been almost 20 related deaths in Pennsylvania in this month alone with tainted heroin- with officials estimating a further 22 people dying of heroin-fentanyl overdoses in Rhode Island during the first two weeks of this year, according to the Providence Journal.
Fox News reported a man has come forward claiming they he saw Hoffman buying drugs earlier on Saturday evening.
The passerby claims he saw a 'very sweaty' Hoffman withdrawing a large sum of money from an ATM by his home before handing it over to two men wearing messenger bags.
The man reportedly added Hoffman looked 'like s**t'.
Police are now seeking surveillance videos from the convenience store.

Doctor: Hoffman's addictions were life-long disease

It was Hoffman's assistant, Isabella Wing-Davey, thought to be 28, who called 911 Sunday to report his dead body.
'They were friends, very good friends,' said actress Meg Gibson, who worked with Hoffman and Wing-Davey on Candlesticks - a short film that listed Hoffman as assistant director.
She holds a BA from Cambridge University in History, and is currently a thesis student in NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Film Program.

DID PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN BUY HUGE STASH OF DEADLY TAINTED HEROIN?

Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman was discovered dead on the bathroom floor of his 4th floor apartment literally surrounded by heroin and its attached paraphernalia.
Some of the empty heroin envelopes were branded with an Ace of Spades log - other with an Ace of Hearts.
The Ace of Spades heroin has been spreading across the country - on July 7, 2011 12 people in Wichita, Kansas, were indicted on heroin trafficking charges - that centered on selling the drugs into New York City.
The majority of the trafficking was to Brooklyn and Queens - from where it would be distributed to Manhattan and into Long Island.
Ace of Spades heroin reared its head again on January 16 when authorities arrested Kendall Sistrunk, 49, with transporting heroin from New York to Stamford, Connecticut.
'Police found 44 bags of heroin with an Ace of Spades brand with a street value of about $900,' according to Captain Richard Conklin, head of Stamford’s Narcotics and Organized Crime Squad.
Indeed, it is suspected that the Ace of Spades brand is responsible for close to 100 deaths from New Hampshire to Washington State - including 37 in Maryland since September.
His death comes amid a sharp rise in trafficking of the drug across the U.S.-Mexico border in recent years and growing abuse of the drug nationwide, according to officials.
The amount of heroin seized annually along America's Southwestern border has increased nearly four-fold between 2008 and 2012, from 1,232 lb to 4,610 lb per year.

Gibson said that Hoffman was close friends with Wing-Davey’s father, Mark Wing-Davey, who chairs the graduate acting department at Tisch - and who also graduated from Cambridge University in 1970.
A close friend of tragic Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman has told how he was ‘mentoring’ his assistant Isabella Wing-Davey before his death – and insisted there had not been any romantic relationship between the pair.
Actress Meg Gibson, who worked with the pair on the short film Candlesticks stressed to MailOnline today: ‘They was nothing romantic between them at all, absolutely not.
Grief-stricken Bella found the star’s body at his rented Greenwich Village apartment on Sunday morning, alongside playwright David Katz.
Only two weeks ago she had accompanied the actor to the Sundance Film Festival and was pictured strolling with him.
‘Bella’s father Mark worked with Phil at the Public Theater and Bella has known Phil since she was a child. Phil brought her into his company to be his development person when she was finishing her graduate work at Tisch School of the Arts, ‘ Meg said.
‘She’s highly skilled and highly talented, she won the Director’s award at Tisch last year.
‘Phil didn’t tolerate fools and he was a mentor for Bella, she was learning her way in the business as a family friend.’
Meg said Philip’s death had come as a ‘terrible shock’.
Having known the actor for decades, the actress said it was shocking that his drug abuse had reared its head again after 23 years of sobriety, adding: ‘He was clean for 23 years and I’ve had many, many a dinner with him where he didn’t have anything to drink.
‘There are lots of people we’re all aware of who have had abuse issues and it’s just shocking and terrifying that it can rear its head.’
Meg appeared in Candlesticks, which was directed by Bella and listed Philip as assistant director.

Offering support: Justin Theroux was also seen leaving Mimi 'Donnell's apartment in New York City

When asked about his recent split from long-term girlfriend Mimi O’Donnell, with whom Phil has three young children, Meg said: ‘Whatever was going on they kept it very quiet, all I knew is that Phil was a devoted father and was especially close to his son. He saw the children every day.’
Describing Mimi as a ‘fantastic costume designer and wonderful mother’, Meg told how Mimi had run the Labryinth Theater in New York when Philip took a leave of absence, saying: ‘She’s a fantastic person.’
In a touching gesture, Australian actress Cate Blanchett appeared teary eyed as she arrived at the apartment Hoffman once shared with O'Donnell - just a block and-a-half from the apartment he was found dead in.

Carrying bags, including a telescope - presumably for Hoffman’s children, the Oscar winner emerged from a black Cadillac and with the help of an assistant.
Blanchett declined comment. 

Evidence: A New York City Police Department investigator removes a bag of evidence from the actor's apartment on Sunday night, where investigators spent the day examining the scene

Blanchett, who worked with Hoffman on the 1999 movie, The Talented Mr Ripley is also up for another Oscar this year for her part in the Woody Allen movie, Blue Jasmine.
A neighbor at the $4.4 million apartment Mr Hoffman and Miss O'Donnell owned together in Jane Street, less than three blocks away from his rental home, described him as 'a troubled soul' to the New York Post.

The couple bought the three-bedroom, 2-1/2-bath apartment in 2008.
'He did not look well recently — like he was out of it,' the woman said. 'I think him and his woman friend were off and on.'
'He lived down here for a long time and was well liked, but everyone knew he had substance-abuse problems,' she added.

Just over a week ago, Mr Hoffman was spotted in the audience at the Broadway revival of 'Waiting for Godot.'
Mr Hoffman won the best actor Academy Award for the 2005 film, Capote, and has been hailed by the film industry as one of the finest actors of his generation.
The Fairport, New York, native reportedly told TMZ in May that he began taking heroin again after 23 years of being clean. He said he'd progressed from prescription pills to ultimately snorting heroin.
He claimed that he only used heroin for a week before he realized he needed help and checked himself into a detox facility on the East Coast.
He spent 10 days receiving treatment and credited a 'great group of friends and family' for helping. 
'I saw him last week, and he was clean and sober, his old self,' Mr Katz, a screenwriter, told the New York Times Sunday. He said he called 911 after finding Mr Hoffman. 'I really thought this chapter was over.'

Happier times for the family: Philip Seymour Hoffman with his son Cooper and his partner Mimi O'Donnell

Father and son: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Cooper Alexander Hoffman and John Leguizamo attend the Portland Trail Blazers vs New York Knicks game at Madison Square Garden on January 1, 2013 in New York City

Talented at a young age: Philip Seymour Hoffman seen here in his yearbook photograph from Fairport High School in New York state

View outside Philip Seymour Hoffman's apartment in NY

Scene: NYPD Crime Scene Unit officers leave the actor Philip Seymour Hoffman's apartment building, Pickwick House, where the actor was found dead on Sunday morning

Interest: Members of the media stand outside the apartment of movie actor Philip Seymour Hoffman after he was found dead in New York February 2, 2014

The family of the actor issued a statement to the media in the aftermath of his death to thank everyone for their support.

'We are devastated by the loss of our beloved Phil and appreciate the outpouring of love and support we have received from everyone. This is a tragic and sudden loss and we ask that you respect our privacy during this time of grieving.
'Please keep Phil in your thoughts and prayers.'
In 2006, Mr Hoffman admitted his history of substance abuse after he graduated from NYU's drama school.
'It was all that drugs and alcohol, yeah. It was anything I could get my hands on…I liked it all,' he told 60 Minutes at the time.

Revealing interview from 2006: The actor tells Steve Kroft that a turning point in his life was when he sought help for substance abuse when he was 23-years-old

PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN'S BRILLIANT CAREER

Hoffman won an Oscar for his portrayal of the witty, theatrical Truman Capote in Capote in 2006 and received four Academy Awards nominations and several nominations for theater awards, including three Tonys.

He was equally acclaimed and productive, often appearing in at least two to three films a year, while managing an active life in the theater. He had been thriving for more than 20 years and no one doubted that a long, compelling run awaited him.
With a range and discipline more common among British performers than Americans, Hoffman was convincing whether comic or dramatic, loathsome or sympathetic, powerless or diabolical.

Oscar winner: Philip Seymour Hoffman as Tuman Capote

In one of his earliest movie roles, he played a spoiled prep school student in Scent of a Woman in 1992. A breakthrough came for him as a gay member of a porno film crew in Boogie Nights, one of several movies directed by Paul Thomas Anderson that Hoffman would eventually appear in. He played comic, off-kilter characters in Along Came Polly and The Big Lebowski.
He bantered unforgettably with Laura Linney as squabbling siblings in The Savages. He was grumpy and idealistic as rock critic Lester Bangs in Almost Famous. He was grumpy and cynical as baseball manager Art Howe in Moneyball.
In The Master, he was nominated for a 2013 Academy Award for best supporting actor for his role as the charismatic, controlling leader of a religious movement.
The film, partly inspired by the life of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, reunited the actor with Anderson.

Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman and George Clooney starring in the 2011 politic thriller The Ides of March

He also received a 2009 supporting nomination for Doubt, as a priest who comes under suspicion because of his relationship with a boy, and a best supporting actor nomination for Charlie Wilson's War, as a CIA officer.
Many younger moviegoers know him as the scheming Plutarch Heavensbee in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and he was reprising that role in the two-part sequel, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, for which his work was mostly completed. The films are scheduled for November 2014 and November 2015 releases.
On Broadway, he took on some of the stage's most ambitious parts - Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, Jamie in Long Day's Journey Into Night and both leads in True West. All three performances were Tony nominated.
In 2013 Hoffman crossed to the other side of the footlights to direct Bob Glaudini's A Family for All Occasions for the Labyrinth Theatre Company, where he formerly served as co-artistic director. Hoffman has also directed Jesus Hopped the A Train and Our Lady of 121st Street for the company and received Drama Desk Award nominations for both productions.
Hoffman's last public appearance was at the Sundance Film Festival last month, where two films he starred in were premieried - A Most Wanted Man and In God's Pocket.

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