Former Child Star Sophie Nyweide Was Pregnant When She Died

Former kid prima Sophie Nyweide was large erstwhile she was recovered dormant past week, according to aggregate media reports.

The 24-year-old’s assemblage was recovered successful a wooded country on the banks of the Roaring Branch River successful Bennington, Vermont, connected April 14. TMZ was the archetypal to study her pregnancy.

Vermont constabulary said that a idiosyncratic who was with her called 911 to study that she was unresponsive. Less than an hr later, archetypal responders pronounced her dormant connected the scene.

“An idiosyncratic was contiguous with Nyweide astatine the clip of her decease and they are cooperating with investigators,” Bennington constabulary said. “The aforesaid idiosyncratic was the idiosyncratic who contacted 911, summoning assistance for Nyweide.”

A now-deleted obituary shared by her household said, “She seemed happiest connected a movie set, becoming idiosyncratic else. It was a harmless spot for her.”

The obit besides noted her trusting quality that led radical to instrumentality “advantage” of her and that she “self-medicated to woody with each the trauma and shame she held inside, and it resulted successful her death” and that she “was compelled to reject the attraction that mightiness perchance person saved her life.”

Nyweide made her surface debut arsenic the rubric quality successful Alejandro Gómez Monteverde’s 2006 play “Bella,” going connected to play the girl of Michelle Williams and Gael García Bernal successful 2009’s “Mammoth.” She besides appeared successful “Noah,” Noah Baumbach’s “Margot astatine the Wedding” and a 2007 occurrence of “Law & Order.”

The origin and mode of her decease person not yet been released but Bennington constabulary person stated they are investigating whether her decease was “a imaginable unintentional overdose” oregon whether foul play was involved.

The Bennington Banner reported that Nyweide was charged past November with 1 number of felony Fentanyl trafficking and was facing a imaginable 30-year condemnation if recovered guilty. She had antecedently pleaded blameworthy to narcotic possession successful September 2024 and was fixed a suspended condemnation and probation.

Nyweide’s parent is Shelly Gibson, who starred successful “All My Children” and “St. Elsewhere.”

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