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Obi Ndefo, who starred as Bodie Wells on Dawson’s Creek, has died on the age of 51.
His loss of life was introduced on Fb by his sister, Nkem Ndefo, on Saturday, August 31.
“Heartbroken on the lack of my youthful brother and realizing he’s lastly at peace ,” Nkem captioned a photograph of herself smiling with Obi. She didn’t give any particulars of his loss of life.
Us Weekly has reached out to Nkem for additional info.
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The actor and yoga trainer was greatest identified for his work on Dawson’s Creek, taking part in the recurring function of Bodie from 1998 to 2002. Mary-Margaret Humes, who performed Dawson’s mom Gale Leery on the sequence, posted a tribute to her former costar on Instagram Saturday upon listening to of his loss of life.
“These phrases don’t come simple 💔It’s onerous for me to conceive that you’ve got left us, my pricey buddy. You at all times had been and at all times will likely be a vibrant shining mild,” she captioned a sequence of throwback moments from the present collectively. “What an instance of pure unfiltered love and tenacity you set as you confronted life’s challenges of current. I’ll cherish all of our messages of affection and help to one another over the previous few years. Relaxation in peace candy warrior.”
Humes additionally tagged fellow Dawson’s Creek alum in her put up, together with Katie Holmes, Joshua Jackson and James Van Der Beek.
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Obi’s loss of life comes a number of years after a tragic hit-and-run accident took each of his legs in 2019. The actor had been loading groceries into his automotive in Los Angeles when a dashing drunk driver slammed into him from behind, severing his proper leg and damaging his left severely sufficient to require amputation to avoid wasting his life.
Nonetheless, regardless of the horror of what occurred, Obi selected to maintain a optimistic perspective, persevering with to show yoga courses. “That is simply so horrendous what occurred to me, why would I compound this by feeling dangerous about it?” he informed the Los Angeles Instances in December 2019. “I didn’t even have to decide on positivity.”
“How are you aware how you’d deal with this? How are you aware what your personal reserves are?” he added. “And anyway, what’s the choice?”
Ever since Dawson’s Creek premiered in 1998, the present grew to become a favourite amongst followers and stays some of the in style teen dramas to ever hit the small display screen. The sequence adopted the lifetime of Joey Potter (Katie Holmes), a tomboy who’s simply making an attempt to make it by highschool following the loss of life of […]
A GoFundMe began for his bills following the accident raised greater than $287,000.
A graduate of Yale College’s drama faculty, Obi additionally made appearances on such reveals as Angel, The West Wing, The Jamie Foxx Present, Stargate SG-1, third Rock from the Solar, Crossing Jordan, Star Trek: Deep Area 9 and Star Trek: Voyager.
