Few people were aware of turmoil in the Hartman home

To many of their friends and relatives, comic Phil Hartman and his wife appeared to be a happy, contented couple. Few knew of her emotional demons, her angry outbursts and battles with addiction, until she killed them both.

Brynn Hartman was a devoted wife and mother of two small children, a "wonderful, upbeat person," said Joel Diamond, a record producer and longtime friend of the couple who had once dated Brynn Hartman.But his wife, Andrea Diamond, said there were signs of trouble.

"Brynn had called me a few times. She said she wanted to talk and she sounded like she had a lot on her mind," Andrea Diamond told station KCAL-TV on Friday.

"I know that she wrestled with some addictions," Andrea Diamond said. "And it seemed that she was doing OK with it. She was struggling with this, and I suspected that she was winning the war and so I didn't want to talk about it unless she wanted to talk about it."

Others were aware of turmoil in the Hartman home.

"They had a pattern of arguing at night, and he would go to sleep and everything would be OK in the morning," Steven Small, a family law attorney and close friend who represented the actor in his two divorces, told the Los Angeles Times in Saturday's editions.