Amie Harwick case: For Drew Carey, Valentine’s Day is a painful reminder of the suspicious death of his former fiancée

More than two-and-a-half years after the death of his former fiancée Amie Harwick, Drew Carey, host of CBS’ “The Price is Right,” tells “48 Hours” that Valentine’s Day won’t ever be the similar for him.

“I don’t know if I’ll ever want to celebrate Valentine’s Day with a dinner. You know? I just don’t wanna do anything,” an emotional Carey instructed correspondent Erin Moriarty. 

Carey’s interview and new information about the case might be featured in “The Final Hours of Amie Harwick,” reairing Saturday, September 3 at 9/8c on CBS and streaming on Paramount +. The broadcast options revealing interviews with Harwick’s shut buddies Robert Coshland, Cleopatra Slough, Sharon Little, and Rudy Torres, in addition to forensic psychologist Kris Mohandie.

The report marked the second anniversary of Harwick’s death in the hours shortly after Valentine’s Day 2020. “I think about her every single day,” Carey instructed Moriarty.

Valentine’s Day looms giant for Drew Carey. In 2018, on a particular Valentine’s episode of “The Price Is Right,” Carey launched Harwick to the world as his fiancée. “I fell so hard for her,” Carey stated. “She was really smart.”

He stated the Ph.D. therapist made him be ok with himself. “You want an intimate relationship where you can open up to somebody completely and be yourself. And she was that for me,” Carey stated.

But the couple ultimately broke up. Carey stated one of the causes was the calls for of his profession. “It was so painful,” he instructed Moriarty.  

In the early morning hours of February 15, 2020, Los Angeles cops responding to a name for a “woman screaming” discovered Harwick, 38, mendacity on the floor battered and unresponsive beneath the third-floor balcony of her Hollywood Hills house. Harwick later died from blunt-force accidents. The health worker additionally discovered proof of strangulation. A path of proof led investigators to Harwick’s ex-boyfriend, photographer Gareth Pursehouse. Pursehouse was arrested and charged with homicide. He has pleaded not responsible.

The broadcast contains the newest proof authorities have collected towards Harwick’s suspected killer together with a syringe that contained nicotine discovered on Harwick’s balcony. Prosecutors consider the syringe is proof of Pursehouse’s intent to homicide Harwick. Nicotine is a toxin that may trigger death.

“She cared so much about helping people,” stated Carey. “That was her life’s purpose. She just wanted to help people. Especially women.”

Harwick, he stated, cared deeply about domestic violence points and helped many of her sufferers who had been victims of sexual abuse. Carey spoke with “48 Hours” in the hopes of bringing consciousness to the commonality of intimate associate violence. 

“You can’t be a person in this country and not know a woman who hasn’t been a victim of domestic violence. You just can’t,” Carey stated. “And it’s really a problem that not enough people acknowledge.”                       

As the anniversary of Harwick’s death approaches, her loss continues to be tough to her buddies. “Valentine’s Day sucks now,” stated Carey. “That’s not a good day to remember.”