Simplify the following text for a Grade 8 native English-speaking person.
Original: She had apparently committed suicide with an overdose of sleeping pills , after years of suffering from what she had claimed to be a very rare and painful photo allergy induced by an earlier penicillin treatment that had forced her to avoid practically all sunlight for years .
Simplified: She had apparently committed suicide with an overdose of sleeping pills . She was said to have suffered from photo allergy ( sunlight burns the skin ) .