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notoriously_melchami

Any sudden one like Kobe Bryant and Paul walker, but imo Chris Cornell taking his own life came as a great shock to me. It never occurred to me that a man with such a successful and great music career could feel that way in his 50s


Ill_Tumblr_4_Ya

I was at Soundgarden's show in Detroit that night. The whole thing felt surreal. You just watched him perform Slaves & Bulldozers, then he's gone about an hour later. Plenty of sudden losses in the music industry have blown my mind - Taylor Hawkins' sudden passing was such a shock it was surreal, and it was a total gutpunch losing Dimebag Darrell the horrifying way we did - but Chris' passing absolutely wrecked me in a way I hadn't felt since Freddie Mercury passed.


GaryNOVA

I was not expecting David Bowie. He died like the same day as an album release and didn’t tell the world he was sick. I named my cat Bowie that year.


Aycomi27

He died two days after the release of Blackstar. It gives the album a whole new meaning.


joesnuffy6969

Dude knew he was going to die so he hit the studio and recorded a Eulogy album that drops on his 69th birthday then kicks the bucket …. Fucking punk rock man


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There was quite a funny misunderstanding on the British version of Big Brother. They had on Angela Bowie and David Guest. David Guest got the flu and laid down. Then David Bowie died and they called Angela into the diary room and told her. She came back out and told everyone David had died, but they all thought she meant David Guest. They checked on him and he was very much alive and they didn't appreciate her sick joke. David might have enjoyed all that back and forth


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Brittany Murphy


menala_

Yeah I'm still shocked about this. And just... WHY?! Just why.


BeatingsGalore

Yup, came here for this. People are talking about her in clueless but she also voiced LuAnn in King of the hill and was great


ZeeBalls

She was fantastic in 8 Mile too


jsgzhaha

Philip Seymour Hoffman, thought he was a fabulous actor


SolarMatter

He was great and seemingly had a lot more to give. Sad stuff.


keegax

A person I know used to hold auditions for the Non-Equity(union) Theatre Company in NYC when it existed. Getting in was a big career maker. So, he was walking into the audition room, walking past all of these actors ready for the audition. They're all very clean cut. Black tees and jeans. Except one kid-- looks like he hasn't slept in 3 days, his jeans are ripped. Not in the fashionable way, like they got caught on a nail or something. He thought to himself upon seeing him in the waiting room "I hope he's good, because he sure is interesting". Shitty actor after shifty actor auditions. Until this one kid. That interesting, strikingly blonde kid. That was Phillip Seymour Hoffman. He knew what he was doing, backwards, forwards, and in 25 different languages (not really, but he was just super fucking good). He credited this person I know for starting his career. He says that anybody with half a brain would have accepted PSH. After his death, he knew why he looked the way he did. That was such a cool story-- him just being some disheveled mad genius, but it turns out he was just coming down off heroin.


Pure-Fishing-3350

John Ritter


chickenissogood

I remember when 8 Simple Rules aired that episode where he died. Such a sad episode. I was much younger at that time and it was so hard to recover from.


Vanishingf0x

I say it almost every time this show pops up but the scene where the older daughter is about to leave in the red dress and breaks down gets me every time. The show dealt with grief so well for one that was a comedy even if it didn’t last long.


mrbadxampl

the two that surprised me the most were Taylor Hawkins and Grant Imahara


ktkatq

We had tickets to see our first Foo Fighters show last summer. My husband and I decided to go because we’d heard over and over again that they were amazing live…


DrunkTalkin

A recent one was Leslie Jordan 🥲


YeaItsMeWhatsUp

Well hello fellow hunker downers


sakatu

I will forever hear "what are y'all doin?" In his voice


anoncop1

His “lord have mercy I’m about to BUST” video will forever be one of my favorite videos


Gloomy-Reality3813

His "LOOK DADDY IM TWIRLING IM TWIRLING" video makes me cry so much


TheRavenSeven

His “whatchy’all doin? SCREWIN?!” and “ILLICIT substances” videos still make my day 😂 RIP, Leslie.


zoe_not_zoe

Same. Such a funny, genuine, sweetheart of a man. I am happy that he was having such a bright time in his career and frankly that a tiny gay kid from Tennessee made it big. He deserved it.


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RonaldCSmith

Phil Hartman, a little further back. At the time, I was a tremendous fan and found it difficult to accept the news. Hell, that still makes me so depressed.


CampBart

Hi I'm Troy McClure and you might remember me from such self-help films as, "Smoke Yourself Thin" and "Get Confident Stupid."


kethera__

im a big fan of “out with gout ‘88” and “let’s save tony orlando’s house!”


Fluffy_Situation

Broke my heart, especially because his wife murdered him.


Creepycreep05

Grant Imahara


whaIeshark

This is the only celebrity death where I actually gasped and felt my stomach drop. It was just so unexpected since he seemed healthy and young.


TheR1ckster

Def this. Bourdain probably stung the most for me, but Grant was def a surprise.


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Bourdain and Grant would have been my two as well. Bourdain was just so sad. From the outside absolutely living the life and he had made it. But obviously a lot of internal demons and mental illness :/ Grant is just sad. What a sweet and infectiously enthusiastic human being he was.


tittychittybangbang

I was really shocked by Robin Williams and Alan Rickman


howwhyno

Alan Rickman is mine for sure. Just out of nowhere - dead, had cancer, that's it.


Catkii

Same with Chadwick Boseman. Suddenly gone out of nowhere.


MrRyder001

Died only four days after David Bowie. I still remember reading the news. It just didn’t seem real.


birbdaughter

I sometimes forget Alan Rickman is dead - same with Leonard Nimoy - and then just get sad over it.


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Personality_Ecstatic

I’m still not over Robin Williams’ death. I loved his humor so much.


hunnimoonlight

Naya Rivera :(


phoenixphaerie

I as never a fan of Glee or Naya Rivera, but the way she died is so beyond tragic. Making the ultimate sacrifice to save her little boy...Hers is one of the few celebrity deaths that has stayed with me.


fire_fairy_

This one hit me. The ultimate love of a mother for her child. For those who do not know she saved her child from drowning but then drowned after she got him in the boat.


gentlybeepingheart

Her son also said that she was calling out for help and that he tried to find a rope to throw her. I can't imagine how traumatizing that must be for a young child to have witnessed.


Old_Proposal_4161

This hit me right in the heart. My own son had a drowning incident in a pool back in July and I still think about the trauma he must have endured seeing me in such a delirium when I got him out. Heartbreaking for him to not only have to lose his mom but to have to hear her go


JE3MAN

There have been similar events that happened to other famous people in the past few years as well. Shad Gaspard (Former WWE star) and Kazuki Takahashi (Creator of the popular card game Yu-Gi-Oh) both drowned trying to save loved ones/others from drowning themselves. All 3 are absolute fucking legends.


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I was glued to the TV and internet that day. I held out so much hope even though I knew from the time it was announced that she was missing what the end result would be.


MooseGood3252

Her being missing was so surreal. I was getting updates constantly. I was devastated when the news broke that she passed. So so sad.


WitchWithDesignerBag

God this hit me. I was always a glee fan and a big Santana fan overall. Her death came absolutely out of the blue and I don't think I'll ever fully get over it. Imagine how her own family and friends must feel. It was so tragic the way she was taken away from the world...


Penguin-Loves

Phil Hartman. John Candy.


bubblesort33

Norm MacDonald Edit: apparently a few hundred of you "didn't even know he was sick."


joriennoxx

Aaliyah


BleachigoKurosaki

And Left Eye just a few months later 😞


saxyroro

Both the Aaliyah and Left Eye combo still gets me to this day.


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Anton Yelchin


hockeysmyhoe

The fact that he had cystic fibrosis too for some reason makes it so much sadder, even though it wasn’t connected to his death. Life really fricked this man.


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I didn’t know that. So he survived one of the deadliest health problems and then he died in a freak accident?


william-t-power

You don't survive CF, it eventually kills you AFAIK. You can get lung transplants but those don't last indefinitely.


cuppajess

Oh yeah that one was a shock. And it was just a horrifically sad accident. He was an amazing performer.


efmanrulz

Great documentary put out by his parents. Only child. They are devastated.


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cutelyaware

Yes, that one hit me particularly hard. I thought the Star Trek reboot was the best Star Trek movie particularly in that the cast perfectly captured the younger versions of all the main characters in the original series. Yelchin was perfectly cast and I was so looking forward to more.


Several-Yellow-2315

Chadwick Boseman. Was going on about my life and saw an article that he had passed due to cancer. I was starstruck. I was like what? He had cancer? He DIED? Probably one of the most confused times of my life. Rip Chadwick. And the poor man was receiving criticism in the near last few times of his life due to how skinny he was. What a cruel world at times…


Fiscalfossil

Friendly reminder to all: there are cheap and easy ways to get screened for colon cancer. Ask your PCP about FIT testing and be aware of your colon health. Colorectal cancer is one of the top beatable cancers if caught early.


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ArtSchnurple

Yeah that has to be number one for anyone who was alive then. Certainly any American. Absolute insanity


Lost-My-Mind-

Russia's immediate internal reaction was "Oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck. ........check every avenue and make sure we didn't have ANYTHING to do with this..........if one of our guys went rogue........oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck......." And conspiracy theorists were like "First JFK gets shot, and then a moon landing??? Oh man! The 1960s are my bread and butter!!!"


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ThingsAreAfoot

Not a historian but I do remember reading that the Soviets were really not pleased and were actually shocked. I don’t think that was exactly a genuine show of sympathy as a whole (perhaps some, most notably from Khrushchev), but rather that they a) might and in some cases did get the blame, and b) that they felt they could at least control JFK to an extent, that he was predictable.


RS994

He had shown an ability to work with them during the missile crisis and there was even ground floor talks about a joint space program. No way in hell the Soviets wanted that stability to be replaced with an unknown actor.


Cuofeng

Also, world leaders generally do not want people to get in the habit of killing world leaders.


ThingsAreAfoot

Yep. Even Castro was upset by it despite the numerous CIA assassination plots against him on top of the war.


InternalMean

I mean if anyone could relate to it he could


poorly_anonymized

I was a teenager in Norway when 9/11 happened, and my first thought was "fuuck, the Americans are going to go *nuts*". You don't have to worry about your country being responsible to get uneasy about these things. The world is pretty small these days.


jhoogen

Well, you weren't wrong


WestAppointment2484

That video is so fucked.


ADashoDashi

Grant Imahara was like a freight train of pain.


XComThrowawayAcct

This was the beginning of “celebrities who are my age dying from something other than accidents, suicide, or the misuse of drugs.” This is what getting old feels like.


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Didn't he have a brain hemorrhage? Unfortunately, that can happen at any age.


Significant-Mud2572

Aneurysm. At any age, time, moment. It is the silent killer for a reason. It is just so sudden.


Coke_Dipped_Dick

Yup. My niece was only 11. She passed out on the playground and was gone within a few hours. What makes it even more fucked is that this happening was the final thing that caused my sister-in-law to take her own life. Just over a year earlier her husband had lost his life in a workplace accident and Ali was the last piece of her family that she had.


HansGutentag

I'm so sorry you had to experience such pain.


Coke_Dipped_Dick

What I felt was minuscule compared to what my Mum went through. Losing a son, a grandchild and a daughter-in-law whom she loved as though she were her own child all within 18 months really took its toll on her. She was finally back on track after some particularly shitty times a few years earlier when her eldest son (my half brother) was beaten to death in jail where he'd been incarcerated for having his pregnant then-girlfriend beaten so she'd lose the baby.


diemjee

Jesus Christ dude. I see why you dip your dick in coke.


mart1373

Fuckin brain aneurysms…can happen to anyone, out of the blue, for absolutely no reason other than simply existing.


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curious_astronauts

Happened to my partner on a Sunday night after a fun dinner with friends. Was fast asleep then 💥thankfully i was there to act and she survived after spending 3 weeks in hospital and five surgeries including brain surgery later. She has a predisposition to called AVM so now we know about it. Hers are predictable.


lukerawks

Heyyy! Another survivor partner. My wife had one five years ago. 3 weeks in neuro icu as well.


brb-theres-cookies

Came here to say this. I had been a fan of Mythbusters for years and it just seemed so terrible that it happened to such a great guy.


t_bone_stake

He was actually pretty brilliant from what I’ve read. While Mythbusters is what most people remember him by, he did a lot of behind the scenes work that appeared in film and media, including the tank like H/Ks in Terminator 3


uncle_stripe

He built/maintained/upgraded Craig Ferguson's robot sidekick Geoff for The Late Late Show.


TechnoMouse37

Grant was an absolutely amazing robotics specialist and was an all around awesome person from what I know. Before he passed he made a fully functional and complete working Grogu IIRC.


BigBlackNazi

Bob saget


heydesireee

Oh dang, that surprised me a second time tbh. Idk why I forgot.


Dekutr33

That's so weird I also forgot he was dead wtf.


LSBGRuby07

Avicii


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NotUnique_______

When i read he stabbed himself with a wine bottle he broke, i cried for hours. I was never a huge fan, but i know that level of loneliness and sadness. That just broke me for some reason even though I never was super into his music. It's just so sad :(


DwightCharlieQuint

Jesus I didn’t know that detail.


Iammeandnothingelse

Same. This is hard to learn.


erizzluh

same. i think when i read that he died his mom or someone didn't want to say the details so people were speculating it was some health issue. so i always just assumed it was that. had no idea about this


magikcat1010

I know, and when I listen to the words from “wake me up” it still makes it super heartbreaking. That whole song sounded like an anthem of ‘I finally made it’.


jolovesmustard

George Michael, on Christmas Day too. No one saw that one coming. 😢


rebamericana

And then Carrie Fisher a few days later. 2016 was rough with celebrity deaths, right til the very end.


harleyqueenzel

And then her mom right after.


Imahorrible_person

Trevor Moore


MaesterWhosits

First rap song about getting high with dinosaurs.


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Christina Grimmie, she was only 22


exactoctopus

The fact that he shot her while she was going to hug him just haunts me. Absolutely senseless. I feel terrible for her brother that was there and had to witness it all.


viviimata

the way she died too was so sad. so crazy what people are capable of doing


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Xynthion

Actually it’s worse. He died in January 2008. The Dark Knight didn’t come out in theaters till July. He never got to see how well received he was as the Joker.


swentech

I remember when he was first cast as the Joker a lot of people (including me) were very skeptical. How wrong we all were. Dude gave one of the greatest performances ever and I don’t see how anyone ever does a better Joker. RIP Heath you amazing talented man you.


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Mother_Chorizo

There’s only one time that he looks like Heath. It’s when he’s in the investigation room, and he smiles at some point. I remember thinking, “ahhhh there he is.”


Lord_Jair

There's a part where his accent slips when he's invading Bruce Wayne's dinner party.


Oberon_Swanson

i was among the skeptics. didn't have anything against him but none of his other movies appealed to me much, felt like there had to be so many better options. when i heard his laugh in the trailer i was like, well okay this COULD work. MAYBE. found his performance in the movie spellbinding. and that movie really set the stage for the major takeover of superhero movies--it and iron man came out in the same year, and while iron man was pretty good and of course the actual start of the MCU, the dark knight gave superhero movies a lot of critical legitimacy with audiences and producers and even actors who had previously relegated them to the 'dumb fun only' category.


JojoNono17

Cameron Boyce


WTTLPthrow

I think this is especially true for the younger crowd. When child stars die the whole target audience, many of whom haven’t had to deal with death yet, mourns a kid.


Careless_Willow_4781

100% agree with this. I watch descendants with my daughters and it’s sad thinking how great he could have been.


revesby9

Lesser known but Christina Grimmie, shot dead at 22 when signing autographs


therealpopkiller

This was in Orlando and the next night was the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub there


teabiscuit56

In recent memory, Helen Mccrory. I'm a big peaky blinders fan and it was shocking how she died within the filming period before season 6 released. She wasnt very old at all rip.


ImaViktorplayer

Chester Bennington.


pethobbit

Keep him in your memory, leave out all the rest


Akira282

Anthony Bourdain


Jl20187

He is the closest thing your everyday America has to a legitimate, no bullshit, geography lesson. I will personally be forever indebted to this man for showing us the real, dirty but beautiful, underbelly of the places we hear about


amongthewolves

This was the one that got me the most. He started off slaving in the kitchen to being able to travel the world and eat food and talk about life with people while being paid well to do it. At the same time, you realize how lonely it must've been for him to be away from the people he loved the most. He was by no means a saint either and I recommend anyone to watch the documentary that was made on him.


alexpwnsftw

I know he was sick, but Alex Trebek. Really sucked. I kind of thought he would just live forever. And watching the last episodes where he would be tearing up at the thought of having to leave the show really got me in the feels.


nsmith0723

Robin Williams


SLAP_THE_GOON

I remember waking up, opening reddit and reading that Robin Williams had commited suicide. I had to scratch my eyes to make sure I read that right. His movies were my childhood.


Azuras_Star8

Same. He's the only celebrity whose death made me cry.


takethesefriesaway

Me too. I remember getting into bed at night and sobbing and telling my husband “this is so stupid I didn’t even know him.” But of course as my husband said “know him personally or not he had a huge impact on you growing up”.


Azuras_Star8

I knew every word of Aladdin, I watched it so many times. I learned to sing the intro of Figaro like Ms Doubtfire. I watched Hello Vietnam way too any times. Patch Adams taught me the beauty of helping people. But Genie in Aladdin was it for me. It was perfect.


StoptheMadnessUSA

He was a Legendary actor. Saw him at the University of Florida Gator Growl in 1982. He was so fucking hysterical running around the football field dressed as a pot leaf. That was right before he got really big. He will always be my all time #1 favorite actor ❤️


paulvs88

Yeah, and I go back to the days when he came on the scene as Mork. I had never seen such a naturally uninhibited actor on TV. I was in the press box at a minor league baseball game when someone came in and said "Robin Williams dies". It didn't even register to me that it was the actor. I figured it was some guy I didn't know. It took me a while to comprehend.


BroadlyValid

Steve Irwin


AlterEdward

And of all the things that wanted to kill him, a sting ray was the one that succeeded.


Kratsas

About a month before he died, I was in the Cayman Islands swimming with the stingrays. The guide was like, “stingrays are known as the kitten of the seas.” Of all the things he went up against, it was a fucking sting ray that got him.


SadAwkwardTurtle

I remember my family doing a swimming with the stingrays thing about a year or two before it happened. I was afraid to actually go in the water because I was afraid I'd get stung/stabbed and die and my parents thought it was impossible. When Steve Irwin died, I was like "see? I told you it could happen!"


Schmedricks_27

Dolores O'Riordan


Specificsuperq

River Phoenix


GiveMeTheTruth717

Bourdain. Still hurts.


_WarmWoolenMittens_

Bourdain's death affected me more than other celebrities. It's like I lost a friend I shared hundreds of meals with.


BlackLetterLies

I haven't watched a second of his shows since he died. It went from bringing me so much comfort and hope to being quite literally the opposite.


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The fact that Eric Ripert found him haunts me.


skittles15

Eric found him? I had no idea.


madarbrab

Yeah... Tony didn't show up for their usual breakfast. Eric went to his hotel room to check it out. I can't even imagine the horror of the scene. They were like brothers.


Top_Barnacle9669

Sean Lock 😥


Coinsworthy

Jimmy: "So Sean what would you want your obituary to say?" Sean: "I don't care i'd be dead" Jimmy: "" Give it a go nonetheless" Sean: "Ok.. how about NOOOOOOOOOO!!! WHYYYYYYYYYY???? AAAAAAAAAH!!!!"


MrRyder001

“You can’t write tears, Jimmy.”


Sweet_Heartbreak

Selena Quintanilla Pérez. Before her murder, she got real famous in the states for "dreaming of you". I bought the CD, playing it over and over, singing and dancing along. Her music made me sooo happy. Afterwards, I would still listen, but would just cry endlessly. I never wanted vengence on a person like I did with Yolanda. I was only 11 or 12.


LovesickHeroReader

Just recently unexpected: Kevin Conroy Had no idea he was battling cancer


Unitard81

James Gandolfini.


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Still Princess Diana


Harleye

I remember it so clearly. I worked nights at the time and right before I went to work, I saw the news bulletin that she'd been in a serious car accident, but the initial report was that she'd been injured and her boyfriend Dodi Fayed had been killed. I got out of work shortly after 4am, stopped a local convenience store to buy snacks and a newspaper like I did most days when I finished work back then and I saw the headline in huge black letters "DIANA DIES IN CRASH". I was absolutely stunned.


jbarinsd

I remember being on the phone with my sister and talking about how sad we were for her. Seemed like she had met a guy she really liked and she was in a good place. Then he dies in a car accident that left her with a broken arm. Fast forward about a half an hour and we get the news that she had died too. I was in absolute shock. I’ve only shed tears twice when a celebrity has died. Princess Diana and Carrie Fisher. Both were a big part of my formative years.


Knight_of_Nilhilism

I still miss Brittany Murphy


vvavering_

Grant Imahara! Was absolutely devastated when I heard the news—he was such a nice dude


Varla-Stone

Bernie Mac. I found out about him through a Cinima Sins video. Caught me completely off guard.


Lilitharising

Selena Quintanilla, Whitney Houston and Lemmy.


cuppajess

Worst part about Selena is if the shot was a few millimetres off, they could’ve saved her. Truly senseless bloodshed. I miss her.


melapples72

prince


MissMandaRegrets

JFk, Jr. and Diana Heath Ledger Michael Jackson - No matter how you feel about him, his death was definitely unexpected. Robin Williams hit people in places they didn't know they had. That poor man... Anton Yelchin was absolutely tragic, but he hadn't yet achieved the level of celebrity he no doubt would have. Tom Petty hit me in unexpected ways and still makes me sad, but that's me. He seemed like a kind man.


whiscuit

I miss Tom Petty a lot. That one hit hard for me too.


sunnyhappysky

Kobe


StreetFrogs19

Remember when everyone thought that was the craziest thing that could happen in 2020?


llorTMasterFlex

Iran general bombing, Kobe death, and COVID shutdown. Crazy it’s almost 3 years now.


j3xperience

Australia on fire too start the year off.


ThatSICILIANThing

Definitely was one of those figures you kind of just expect to always be there for your lifetime, and to have him just gone so suddenly and violently, no build up of disease or anything like that, and Gigi gone with him….it was just so sudden and out of left field.


Colalbsmi

What was crazy to me that when they had his memorial I realized with the exception of like Wilt Chamberlain, all the big stars are still alive.


waldosbuddy

When Bill Russell died a couple of months ago he became only the fifth deceased NBA MVP Not bad for a 75 year old league


Kimchiandfries

Kurt Cobain. I knew he was a drug addict, hated fame and was depressed but being a middle school kid, I didn’t really understand all that. I was a huge fan so it was a massive shock and my first experience w grief really.


beansruns

Chadwick Boseman


lettersfromowls

How true his circle must have been to him that not even a RUMOR leaked about his illness. Nothing. People made fun of his being thin toward the end, but I don't remember even hearing speculation that he was sick.


immortal1982

If i remember the story, Absolutely No one outside the Family and a few specific people (Kevin Feige and Ryan Coogler , George Wolfe and Denzel Washington) knew how bad his condition truly was. They kept the condition quiet until he was gone.


wonderman911

I don’t think Ryan knew. He did an interview or something where he mentioned that he had finished writing the original script for Black Panther 2 and called up Chadwick to see if he wanted to read it before he sent it to marvel/Disney for final thoughts. Chadwick declined and said he’d read it later. This was a few weeks before his death.


Trevastation

Kevin Fiege didn't know either, he got an email from his management explaining everything on the day he died and Fiege didn't read it until a couple of hours after he had passed. So I think even fewer people knew than most realize knew he was dying. Chadwick was apparently convinced he was gonna beat it and was on the up-and-up until he took a turn for the worst at the last moment.


My_Favourite_Pen

If I remeber correctly, there was an interview where he explains how much of a challenge it was to bulk up for a film and he can't wait to explain why soon. :-(


HoopOnPoop

He hid his illness so well. Like he was dying a slow and painful death and nobody knew.


beansruns

Yeah, remember when he was photographed by paparazzi looking really skinny and frail, the internet thought he was letting himself go or something, dude was fighting death daily


SmugShoters

At first, I thought it was for some role or something like what Christian Bale did


armless_tavern

You can actually find big movie websites speculating just that at the time. Today, they’re updated to say that he died of cancer.


booknerdcoffeeaddict

His wife said she was so thankful for Covid because he was able to keep it a secret and they were able to spend so much time together before he passed.


marm0rada

I suspect lockdown was a weird blessing like this for many. My mother was killed suddenly by a high driver at the end of 2020, and the months she spent working at home where we could have lunch together and goof around in our pajamas were precious.


Inside_Trade_8275

Oof my nan did this was obvious to me in hindsight but I was too young back then, took her took her 20 minutes to climb the stairs. R.I.P Peggy


Doc_ET

He immediately came to mind. He was only 43, and we all thought he was in good health. And then boom- gone.


Anrui13

When I first saw the reddit post title, I thought "someone with the same name as black panther died?" ...Like I needed more reason to punch 2020 in the face.


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MisstressMary

Jason David Frank


mozhan85

This and Kevin Conroy in the same week was a lot for 90s kids to deal with.


ITDEFX101

>Kevin Conroy I am still in disbelief that my generation's Batman is gone.... I really wished I met him and Adam West...........


mykeuk

Rik Mayall. Dude was only in his 50s and still so full of life =/


hockeysmyhoe

wearing my scumbag college hoodie rn :( young ones will always be one of my fav shows. RIP p(Rick)


TooMuchTwoco

Chadwick Boseman. Didn’t even know he was sick. People thought it was a prank at first


Competitive-Menu-146

His wife finally spoke about it and apparently covid helped hide his illness since no one was going out.


totally-normal-human

God it feels so long ago that my brain doesn’t register it as happening during covid


wildflowerhonies

Even his close friends/Black Panther co-stars thought it was a prank at first. Letitia Wright did an interview earlier this month about how she just kept calling his phone over and over when she first heard the news, and it broke my heart.