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Florence Ballard died due to her drinking problems and

medicine to make her lose wait and depression from being fired from the supreme. True,but before Florence Ballard died she was going to make a Comeback. "In 1975, Ballard received an insurance settlement from her former attorney's insurance company. With the settlement money, Ballard purchased a small house on Shaftsbury Avenue in Detroit for herself and her children and made a decision to return to singing. Around this same time, she also reconciled with her estranged husband.

Backed by the female rock group The Deadly Nightshad, Ballard performed as a part of the Joan Little Defense League at a concert held at Detroit's Henry and Edsel Ford Auditorium on June 25, 1975. Following the success of this performance, Ballard received requests for newspaper and television interviews, including an appearance on the local Detroit talk show The David Diles Show.On February 21, 1976, Ballard entered Mt. Carmel Mercy Hospital, complaining of numbness in her extremities . The next day, she died at 10:05 a.m. of coronary thrombosis , a blood clot in one of her coronary arteries.She was thirty-two years old.Ballard is buried in Detroit Memorial Park Cemetery located in Warren, Michigan." wikipedia her life was sad-Aaliyah 22

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