Hollywood has misplaced one in all its personal.
Obi Ndefo, who starred on TV reveals comparable to Dawson’s Creek and Stargate SG-1, has died. He was 51.
The actor’s sister’s confirmed his demise. “Heartbroken on the lack of my youthful brother,” she wrote on Instagram Aug. 31, “and figuring out he’s lastly at peace.”
The reason for Obi’s demise 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 dashing 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 convey 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 yr, “simply to maintain myself calm.”
He underwent surgical procedures and rehabilitation lessons and was fitted with prosthetic legs.
