[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content] This is absolutely devastating. TV writer Heidi Ferrer, best known for her work on Dawson’s Creek, died by suicide on May 26 following months of severe COVID-19 symptoms.
She was just 50. According to her husband Nick Guthe, who confirmed the news to Variety, the screenwriter contracted coronavirus in April 2020 and turned out to be among the small fraction of cases, so-called long-haulers, in which symptoms just don’t go away.
Tt only continued to worsen over the next year until this May, when she was bedridden with severe neurological tremors and constant physical pain.
So awful. Related: How Yvette Nicole Brown Got Diabetes On The Set Of Community Aside from her work on The CW hit, Ferrer was