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Even if he had survived the heart attack, the cirrhosis would have killed him within a year. The autopsy also reports that at the time of his death, Flynn had a blood alcohol level of 0.25%. The autopsy also revealed that he was suffering from genital warts.
Glen McGregor reports on his blog that he's seen a copy of Flynn's 1959 autopsy in which it's noted that Flynn did suffer from human papillomavirus, aka genital warts. But the story about his warts being cut off as souvenirs isn't included in the report.
The most notably damaged organ, it turned out, was Flynn’s penis, which was beset by a collection of enormous genital warts.
TIL that actor Errol Flynn had such massive genital warts upon his death that Vancouver's chief pathologist removed them and soaked them in formaldehyde to allow medical students to research them. When the city's coroner heard this, he immediately scotch taped Flynn's warts back onto to his penis.
Flynn’s heart had definitely stopped, but all his other organs were so shot that the coroner ultimately ruled his death as due to “natural causes.” The most notably damaged organ, it turned out, was Flynn’s penis, which was beset by a collection of enormous genital warts.
Flynn bitterly believed himself a “phallic symbol,” notoriously equated with sex. He was also a braggart who constantly advertised his sexual prowess and peccadilloes. But in 1943, Flynn’s ...
He was taken to a morgue for an autopsy, in which one of the pathologists decided to cut off some warts from his penis as a talking point for future lectures. He was ordered to 'Scotch tape' them back on as another autopsy awaited the body in Los Angeles.
