'Dawson's Creek' writer Heidi Ferrer dies by suicide at 50 after a long battle with cancer.
back in September detailing exactly how COVID knocked her down -- she called the recovery process the hardest thing her body's ever had to go through.
She said,"In my darkest moments, I told my husband that if I didn’t get better, I did not want to live like this. I wasn’t suicidal, I just couldn’t see any quality of life long term and there was no end in sight." Her condition went through a steady decline this year as she battled long-haul COVID symptoms -- and last month, more than a year after contracting the virus, she was bedridden again before her death. Nick called long-haul COVID"a public health crisis that must be addressed quickly."
Heidi made a name for herself as a writer who, without a college degree, sold her first spec,"The C Word," to Oscar-winning producerHeidi's survived by her husband, 13-year-old son, mother and 2 sisters. She was 50.
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