he was a big man she said describing his daily weightlifting and it look a lot of energy to keep him goingshe said he adored his two young daughters and was a mamas boyafter his mothers death in 2018 he seemed kind of like a shell of himself like he was brokenat times the couple took prescribed painkillers at other times they bought oxycontin and other pills on the black market sometimes they beat the habit sometimes they relapsedaddiction in my opinion is a lifelong struggle she said its not something that comes and goes its something ill deal with forevernelson chauvins lawyer asked ross about an episode during which she took floyd to a hospital emergency room where he was treated for five days for an overdoseyou did not know that he had taken heroin at that time nelson asked her she said nolawyers for floyds family ben crump and antonio romanucci criticized chauvins defense in a joint statement tens of thousands of americans struggle with selfmedication and opioid abuse and are treated with dignity respect and support not brutality their statement saidross said her last conversation with floyd was on may 24 when they spoke on the telephonea day later floyd was pinned under chauvins knee under arrest on suspicion of buying cigarettes at a food store with a counterfeit 20 billthe jury has heard three days of testimony by onlookers who said they screamed at chauvin and other officers imploring them to check floyds pulseon thursday paramedics who arrived at the scene testified that they had to move police off floyd who by then had stopped breathing had no pulse and whose pupils were dilatedin lay terms derek smith one of the paramedics told the jury i thought he was dead