Samantha Weinstein, an actor who starred in the 2013 remake of 'Carrie' and voiced roles in several cartoons, has died. She was 28.
Weinstein continued to live a full life while undergoing cancer treatment. She married Michael Knutson on October 29, 2022, and the two honeymooned in Japan., published last July, Weinstein, who also performed in a punk rock band called Killer Virgins, reflected on getting diagnosed with cancer at the age of 25 and falling in love with Knutson. The two went on their first date a week after her cancer diagnosis.
"First dates were nerve wracking enough, but I had just received some devastating news the week before- it was cancer. Talk about scaring a guy off!" she wrote."Eyes fixed on the dirt ground of the dog park, I told him I’d been diagnosed with a rare ovarian germ-cell yolk sac tumor, and I’d be starting chemotherapy in just a few months. I held my breath, squeezed my eyes shut, and waited for the inevitable rejection… but it never came.
She continued:"When my hormones were raging from IVF injections, we screamed at each other as we built an IKEA vanity and collapsed on the floor laughing. When my hair started falling out, we shaved our heads together. When my fingers were turning black from nerve damage, he took me out for ice cream and held the cone. He taught me love is selfless and reminded me to let others take care of me too.
"I said instead of a first dance we should have a lightsaber duel. 20 months, 10 rounds of chemo, and a lifetime's worth of memories later, here we are," she wrote on
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