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Former child star Sophie Nyweide was pregnant when she died at 24, death certificate reveals
yahoo ^ | April 23, 2025 | Emlyn Travis

Posted on 04/24/2025 8:10:26 AM PDT by BenLurkin

Nyweide’s family announced her passing in a since-deleted obituary, writing at the time that the actress “self medicated to deal with all the trauma and shame she held inside, and it resulted in her death."

They added that Nyweide repeatedly claimed that she would navigate her health issues “on her own" and "was compelled to reject the treatment that might possibly have saved her life.” In lieu of flowers, her family asked instead that individuals to make a donation to RAINN, the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, in her name.

A Vermont native, Nyweide knew that she wanted to follow in the footsteps of her mother Shelly Gibson and become an actress after watching the 2003 rom-com Something’s Gotta Give at age four. She made her film debut just two years later, playing the lead role in the 2006 drama Bella.

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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: addiction; bella; emlyntravis; hollywood; shellygibson; sophienyweide; vermont; yahoo

1 posted on 04/24/2025 8:10:26 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Hollywood is EVIL


2 posted on 04/24/2025 8:36:54 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: BenLurkin
playing the lead role in the 2006 drama Bella.

Pro-life movie.

3 posted on 04/24/2025 8:37:47 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: BenLurkin

Every story is pictures of her as a child. None have a single adult photo. She was 24. It’s kind of like when we only see photos of thugs pre thug. It just seems weird.


4 posted on 04/24/2025 8:38:30 AM PDT by 1malumprohibitum (I’m )
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To: BenLurkin

Rape, Abuse & Incest National NetworK

Well that’s quite specific.

What did Hollywood do to her when she was a child?


5 posted on 04/24/2025 8:45:59 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: BenLurkin

No idea who she is or what was wrong with her. But she was probably surrounded by some vile characters and child predators. Probably seduced in to the Hollywood “I will navigate my own health issues” by woo and “homeopathic” snake oil. God speed.


6 posted on 04/24/2025 9:01:44 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: BenLurkin

She appears to have been in 12 movies/TV episodes over a 9-year period and her last listing was 2015 when she would have been 14 or maybe 15 at best. Could be completely unrelated to Hollywood.


7 posted on 04/24/2025 9:11:43 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: BenLurkin

Its obvious she was doing drugs and either killed herself or overdosed...


8 posted on 04/24/2025 9:21:03 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

She didn’t play the lead role in “Bella.” She played Bella, who actually had a small role in the movie because most of the movie was about Bella’s mother during her pregnancy.


9 posted on 04/24/2025 9:26:24 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("The gallows wait for martyrs whose papers are in order.")
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To: packagingguy

I like to read books...

“How is lust like a virus? How do photography and the Image Revolution spread and mutate the virus”

https://roykfiles.com/books/#1-lust-virus


10 posted on 04/24/2025 9:29:24 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER REV; NIEMOLLER)
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To: IYAS9YAS
She appears to have been in 12 movies/TV episodes over a 9-year period and her last listing was 2015 when she would have been 14 or maybe 15 at best. Could be completely unrelated to Hollywood.

Many former child actors don't adjust well to a non-Hollywood adulthood. They feel empty and worthless after the praise and attention is suddenly cut off.

11 posted on 04/24/2025 9:30:04 AM PDT by Angelino97
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They feel empty and worthless after the praise and attention is suddenly cut off.

And abuse exacerbates the worthless feeling, once they 'age out' the attention drops precipitously, only the trauma remains as a daily reminder.

12 posted on 04/24/2025 10:23:19 AM PDT by null and void (Democrats: fake news, fake presidents, fake beliefs, fake policies, fake protesters & fake voters!)
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To: BenLurkin

A victim of ‘spike’ shedding from the CoVID ‘genetic treatment’ vaccine?


13 posted on 04/24/2025 10:53:19 AM PDT by RideForever (Damn, another dangling par .....)
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To: woodbutcher1963

“Hollywood is EVIL”

She hadn’t worked in the business FOR A DECADE. Climb down off your soapbox.


14 posted on 04/24/2025 11:08:59 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
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To: packagingguy

“Rape, Abuse & Incest National NetworK

Well that’s quite specific.

What did Hollywood do to her when she was a child?”

She was pregnant as an adult and hadn’t worked in Hollywood for 10 years. You seem to have determined a connection without any facts to support it.


15 posted on 04/24/2025 11:10:54 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
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To: Angelino97

“They feel empty and worthless after the praise and attention is suddenly cut off.”

You’re engaging in fact-free speculation. We can say that many young adults without childhood acting careers feel emptiness and worthlessness for a slew of reasons that we cannot fathom.


16 posted on 04/24/2025 11:13:49 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
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To: Miami Rebel

I wasn’t saying her pregnancy was a result of rape. It’s that Hollywood has quite a reputation for strange things going on with kids who work there.


17 posted on 04/24/2025 11:25:40 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: BenLurkin

She played the little girl in the pro-life movie ‘Bella’? This is heartbreaking...

Here she is, at the end of the movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlhH_sjxXaA


18 posted on 04/24/2025 11:38:25 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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