Heidi Ferrer, a author for “Dawson’s Creek,” dedicated suicide in Could after a yearlong battle with COVID-19, her husband stated. She was 50.
Her partner, screenwriter, director and producer Nick Guthe, instructed Deadline she took her personal life Could 26. She had contracted COVID-19 in April 2020 and was nonetheless combating the virus over a yr later. Ferrer was “bedridden and in fixed bodily ache” in Could on account of long-term signs of the virus, together with extreme neurological tremors.
“My lovely angel, Heidi, handed over tonight after a 13 month battle with Lengthy Haul Covid,” Guthe wrote on Twitter. “She was an incredible mom. She fought this insidious illness with the identical ferocity she lived with. I like you without end and I’ll see you down the highway.”
As reported by TMZ, Ferrer wrote about her battle with the virus, detailing her signs in a September put up.
“In my darkest moments, I instructed my husband that if I didn’t get higher, I didn’t need to stay like this. I wasn’t suicidal, I simply couldn’t see any high quality of life long run and there was no finish in sight,” she wrote on the time on her weblog GirlToMom, which she began in 2008 to write down about elevating a baby with progressive childish scoliosis.
Born in Kansas, Ferrer moved to Los Angeles within the Nineteen Eighties to pursue performing and wound up finding out on the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Ultimately, she moved onto screenwriting after promoting her first spec, “The C Phrase,” to Academy Award-winning producer Arnold Kopelson, Deadline reported.
Ferrer went on to write episodes of “Dawson’s Creek” and “Wasteland.”
She is survived by her husband; 13-year-old son, Bexon; her mom, Nancy Gilmore; and sisters Laura Frerer-Schmidt and Sierra Summerville.
Should you or somebody you realize is considering suicide, you may get assist by contacting the Nationwide Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1-800-273-8255.
