US EditionEx-wife of Angels employee testifies at trial about team's drug use
Camela Kay testified that Angels officials knew of Eric Kay’s opioid addiction and drug dealing years before Tyler Skaggs’ 2019 overdose death.
- On Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025, Camela Kay testified she shared information with an Angels official weeks before Tyler Skaggs' 2019 overdose, amid a wrongful-death suit alleging team negligence.
- On Oct. 1, 2017, the Kay family staged an intervention over Eric Kay's drug use, and Camela Kay described his April 21, 2019 hospitalization after Tom Taylor drove him home.
- On a team flight, Camela Kay said she witnessed players passing pills and reported that to traveling secretary Tom Taylor; she also testified Tim Mead returned from Eric Kay's bedroom with plastic baggies of pills, though both deny recalling this.
- The Skaggs family is suing the Angels, seeking $118 million in damages in Orange County Superior Court, where the trial is expected to run into December.
- Major League Baseball agreed to opioid testing and treatment referrals after Skaggs' death, while Skaggs' lawyers say the Angels gave Eric Kay special treatment by allowing his Nov. 2, 2019 resignation.
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Prior to Tyler Skaggs’ death, it was well-known in Angels’ clubhouse that Eric Kay was a drug addict, former ballpark attendant testifies
A former Los Angeles Angels ballpark attendant testified on Tuesday, Nov. 4 that it was well-known in the clubhouse that Eric Kay – the communications staffer who would later give pitcher Tyler Skaggs an illicit pill that led to his death – was a drug addict. Kris Constanti described during his testimony in the ongoing wrongful death trial against the ballclub hearing Kay admit to being high on Norco while at the ballpark, to hiring sex-workers …
Angels PR Executive Testifies About Co-Worker's Connection to Skaggs Death
The top public relations executive with the Angels testified Monday in the trial for the wrongful death lawsuit against the team stemming from Tyler Skaggs’ overdose that he was unaware his “mentor” was using illegal drugs and provided pills for the pitcher. Adam Chodzko, the team’s senior director of communications, testified about the night weeks after Skaggs’ overdose death in a Texas hotel room on a road trip when his boss at the time, Eric …
Ex-wife of Angels employee says team failed her drug-addicted husband
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — The ex-wife of a Los Angeles Angels employee testified on Tuesday that the MLB team failed her drug-addicted husband during a trial over the fatal overdose of one of its star pitchers. Camela Kay testified that she previously had seen Angels players partying, drinking and passing around pills on the team plane when she traveled with her then-husband, Eric Kay, the team’s communications director. In 2019, after her husban…
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Ex-wife of Angels employee says team failed her drug-addicted husband at trial over pitcher’s death
The ex-wife of a Los Angeles Angels employee says the MLB team failed her former husband, who is serving 22 years for his role in the fatal overdose of one of the team's star pitchers. Camela Kay testified Tuesday that…
Eric Kay’s ex-wife says she told Angels co-workers he had a drug problem, contradicting their testimony
SANTA ANA, Calif. — The ex-wife of the Angels employee who gave pitcher Tyler Skaggs fentanyl-laced opioid pills was steadfast in her testimony Monday and Tuesday that Angels executives knew of her then-husband’s opioid abuse for several years before Skaggs…
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