Hi guys,

Ashley was my best friend. I read the above posts and I just wanted to clear some things up. I have known Ashley since I was 13 yrs old. I'm 25 today. We went through high school together and we were close friends until she passed away. Ashley was an amazing person and I can assure all of you that she never willingly took any drug the entire time I knew her. We had a lot of friends and myself included got into plenty of trouble but she was always the one telling us how wrong we were to do some of the things we did. I am not trying to preach to anyone because I'm definitely not the one to do that. She pictured the cruise like most would. A cruise ship that would include great buffets, laying out by the pool, fine dining and other fun activities. I was really excited for her because I have always wanted to go on such a cruise. Her boyfriend was a good friend of mine for many years. He was well aware of the type of cruise that this was because it was very much his scene. From what we know at this point from all the video that was gathered and so forth was pretty much spelled out in the CBS special. She wanted to go to sleep while Geoff wanted to continue his night. They had some sort of argument and she stayed in the room. He stashed his Methadone in a Cold Medicine box to hide it while boarding the ship. It's possible that she woke up in a daze, didn't feel well and simply took it by mistake. A person that has never been exposed to the drug can very easily die from a very small amount. Of course there is another scenario that I won't go into because it's just something you don't write on the Internet. Anyway guys my point in writing this is that I owe it to her. I would never judge anyone for making assumptions especially when drug abuse is so common. If I were in your shoes I would assume the same thing. A girl that lived as clean of a life as she did deserves to have someone like me write a few lines in an attempt to let everyone know just how special she was to the people that loved her the most. I would also like to add that they tested a hair sample only to determine that there was absolutely no prior drug use. Take care guys and thanks in advance for reading this.

Joey