Hollywood has misplaced certainly one of its personal.
Obi Ndefo, who starred on TV exhibits equivalent to Dawson’s Creek and Stargate SG-1, has died. He was 51.
The actor’s sister’s confirmed his loss of life. “Heartbroken on the lack of my youthful brother,” she wrote on Instagram Aug. 31, “and realizing he’s lastly at peace.”
The reason for Obi’s loss of life was not launched.
The actor, who starred on Dawson’s Creek between 1998 and 2002 as Bodie Wells, brother-in-law of Katie Holmes‘ character Joey Potter, died 5 years after he had each legs amputated above the knee after a automobile accident.
In 2019, Ob was hit by a rushing driver on a Los Angeles road whereas loading groceries he introduced at an Erewhon pure meals grocery store into his personal automobile.
The motive force fled the scene after the crash, whereas a bystander stayed with Obi till paramedics arrived to carry him to the hospital. “I simply began repeating, ‘I am alive, I am alive, I am alive, I am alive,'” he recalled to NBC Los Angeles that 12 months, “simply to maintain myself calm.”
He underwent surgical procedures and rehabilitation courses and was fitted with prosthetic legs.
