Former “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” and “Gossip Girl” star Michelle Trachtenberg has died, police sources solely instructed The Publish Wednesday. She was 39.
The reason for loss of life was not instantly identified, however her loss of life was reportedly not being investigated as suspicious.
Her mom discovered Trachtenberg useless in her condo close to Columbus Circle in New York Metropolis. Sources revealed the actress lately had a liver transplant and will have been experiencing issues.
Earlier than her loss of life, the previous “Harriet the Spy” actress confronted detrimental feedback from her Instagram followers about her look.
In current months, she appeared gaunt in photographs, which induced a few of her 800,000 Instagram followers to take a position about her well being.
Final January, Trachtenberg responded to fan considerations saying she was “happy and healthy” and had by no means had cosmetic surgery.
In January of 2024, she addressed the negativity and clapped again in an Instagram Publish.
“Fun fact. This is my face,” she wrote in a caption alongside a selfie.
“Not malnutrition no problems. Why do you have to hate? Get a calendar,” she wrote.
The detrimental feedback started earlier that week, after Trachtenberg posted the same selfie “Snake it to make it,” she wrote within the caption for that photograph.
“Concerned for yellow in your eyes but other than that you are a QUEEN and you’re a wonderful human being who deserves love and joy,” one commenter wrote.
One other accused her of getting cosmetic surgery. “You’re stunning, but you had buccal fat removal. Your cheeks suddenly look sucked in, exactly the same way the buccal fat removal in the face/cheeks does to people. You’ve always been beautiful and still are and there’s nothing wrong with getting surgery, but why lie about it?”
“I’ve received several comments recently about my appearance. I have never had plastic surgery I am happy and healthy. Check yourself haters,” Trachtenberg wrote within the caption of one other Instagram selfie submit on Jan. 18, 2024.
Born in New York Metropolis on Oct. 11, 1985, Trachtenberg first rose to fame as a toddler star in 1996’s “Harriet the Spy.” She went on to play Buffy’s sister (Sarah Michelle Gellar), Daybreak, in “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” and she or he was additionally in “Gossip Girl” because the manipulative socialite, Georgina Sparks.
In 2020, Trachtenberg shared a submit on Valentine’s Day reflecting on being the sufferer of bullying in her youth.
“The kids were cruel. There is no need to harp on the past,” she mentioned. “But I still have scars from being thrown down stairs and slammed into lockers head first.”
Trachtenberg wrote in her caption, “I write this to every child, teen, person, out there who is bullied. You are something. Do not put your value in someone else. Not letting them win, is your win.”
In 2021, Trachtenberg made allegations towards “Buffy” creator and “Avengers” director Joss Whedon, 60.
“The last. Comment I will make on this. Was. There was a rule. Saying. He’s not allowed in a room alone with Michelle again,” she wrote on the time in an Instagram submit. Trachtenberg was 15 when she was in “Buffy,” and she or he didn’t elaborate on who made this rule.
Whedon later denied this allegation.
Her ultimate social media submit was a throwback photograph of herself that she shared on Feb. 18. She captioned it, “I wanted to look like naughty.”
