{"id":83331,"date":"2023-07-12T12:42:18","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T12:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/07\/12\/popular-nollywood-actress-dies-in-her-sleep\/"},"modified":"2023-07-12T12:42:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T12:42:18","slug":"popular-nollywood-actress-dies-in-her-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/07\/12\/popular-nollywood-actress-dies-in-her-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Nollywood Actress Dies In Her Sleep&#8230; |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><!-- related --><\/p>\n<p><!-- related --><\/p>\n<p>Veteran Nollywood actress Cynthia Okereke has passed.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the unfortunate incident on Wednesday in an Instagram post, popular actor and filmmaker, Joseph Okechukwu, stated that Okereke died on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Sharing the actress\u2019s picture, Okechukwu said he was about to pay for Cynthia\u2019s flight ticket to come to America before her death.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote: \u201cREST IN PEACE, Nwanyi oma. I\u2019m shattered beyond words.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that I was about to pay for your flight ticket to come and finish what we started only to hear you went to be with Lord just last night is one of the toughest things I\u2019ve had to deal with in recent times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI pray I\u2019m able to recover from the shock. Life is really just a mist. One minute you have it, the next you don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the more than 20 years that I\u2019ve known you, you\u2019ve been such an amazing, decent and lovely soul to be around. Words fail me. 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