Triangle Of Sadness Star Charlbi Dean's Mysterious Sudden Death Explained

22.12.2022 - 05:41 / perezhilton.com

Rising star Charlbi Dean’s sudden and mysterious death has finally been explained.

In case you didn’t know, her rep shared with NBC News that the actress (born Charlbi Dean Kriek) had passed away from “an unexpected sudden illness” on August 29. The actress was making a bigger name for herself this year with a major role in the award-winning film Triangle of Sadness. The poor girl didn’t even get to see its stateside release. She was just 32 years old. Awful.

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Charlbi’s brother Alex Jacobs opened up about her death to Rolling Stone at the time, revealing she started experiencing “minor” symptoms and asked her fiance, Luke Volker, to take her to an emergency room in New York City. However, she never made it out of the hospital as she died just hours later. He told the outlet:

Now her official cause of death has been revealed, and it’s so upsetting… A spokesperson for the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner shared with People on Wednesday that Charlbi passed away from bacterial sepsis. But here’s the wild and messed up part! According to the spokesperson, the sepsis “was a complication from asplenia (the absence of a spleen) due to remote blunt trauma to her torso.”

See, Alex told Rolling Stone that his sister had been in a “very, very bad car accident” around 2009, where she suffered from broken ribs and a broken back. At the time, doctors ended up having to remove her spleen. He added:

So basically, the Black Lightning star died due to a complication from a common surgery she received more than 10 YEARS AGO! The New York City coroner’s statement provided some more clarification about the sepsis, noting it was caused after Charlbi got