Tyler Skaggs' widow says she was not aware of pitcher's drug use at time of death; mother also testifies

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The wrongful death trial of former Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs has reached its sixth week, and his widow and mother took the stand on Monday.

Carli Skaggs, who began dating the MLB pitcher in 2014, testified that she knew Skaggs battled a previous addiction to Percocet before they dated but did not know he was still using drugs at the time of his death.

Skaggs died in 2019 after taking fentanyl-laced oxycodone supplied by the team's former communications director, Eric Kay, who is serving 22 years in prison, mixed with alcohol.

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The wife of Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs, Carli, with Skaggs' mother, Debbie Hetman, in the dugout before a game against the Seattle MarinersJuly 12, 2019, in Anaheim, Calif. (John Cordes/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Skaggs had developed his Percocet addiction during his time with the Arizona Diamondbacks in the early 2010s, which Carli had not found out about until roughly a year after they began dating. Carli admitted her husband took an ecstasy pill on their honeymoon, and they smoked marijuana together but stopped when they wanted to start a family.

An attorney representing the Skaggs family asked Carli if she was "able to think of any occasion" in which she could have realized Skaggs was using.

"No. And I have racked my brain for something I could have missed," she replied, via The Orange County Register.

Debbie Hetman, Skaggs' mother, testified that the Angels never asked her about her son's previous addiction and would have told them had they asked. She also said she asked Dr. Neal ElAttrache, the doctor who performed his