Margot Kidder died in a home full of meth addict she had taken in and attempted to help, a friend tells The Sun.
The actress, who gained worldwide fame for playing Lois Lane in the 1978 film Superman, reportedly took in drug addicts and tried to turn their lives around.
Louisa Willcox, a friend of Kidder’s for 30 years, told: ‘Margie was a real bad judge of people.
‘She became a target for Livingston’s meth scene. They took her jewellery, her silver, anything they could get their hands on.’
The star, who was married three times, battled bipolar disorder and spent time living on the streets in 1996.
Kidder died in her home in Montana at the age of 69.
Rising to fame in 1978 for her role as Lois Lane in Superman: The Movie opposite Christopher Reeve, Kidder went on the reprise the part in the movie’s three sequels.
Kidder also starred as Kathy Lutz in The Amityville Horror (1979), and appeared in movies such as Black Christmas (1974) and Heartaches (1981). The actress also starred as Eliza Doolittle in the 1983 adaption of Pygmalion.
Despite her raging success, Kidder battled mental health issues throughout her life, at one point leaving her homeless.
Kidder told PEOPLE five months later that the root of most of her problems, which included ‘mood swings that could knock over a building’, was manic depression.
‘It’s very hard to convince a manic person that there is anything wrong with them,’ said Kidder. ‘You have no desire to sleep. You are full of ideas.’
Kidder is survived by her daughter, Maggie McGuane.
