Ferrer died by suicide after being sick with long-haul Covid for over a year.
Screenwriter Heidi Ferrer, who worked on Dawson’s Creek, has died. She was 50 years old.
Ferrer’s husband, Nick Guthe, confirmed that she had died by suicide last month, after being sick with severe long-haul Covid-19 symptoms for 13 months.
Guthe announced her death on her blog, Girl to Mom.
“The excruciating physical pain and inability to sleep from the pain led Heidi to the decision she would rather leave this world on her own terms before her condition worsened more,” Guthe wrote.
He previously shared that she had died on Twitter.
“My beautiful angel, Heidi, passed over tonight after a 13 month battle with long-haul Covid,” he wrote on 26 May.
He added that Heidi was an “amazing mother” to their 13 year-old son Bexon.
“She fought this insidious disease with the same ferocity she lived with,” he wrote. “I love you forever and I’ll see you down the road.”
As well as her work on Dawson’s Creek, Ferrer had writing credits on Wasteland, and the Paris Hilton film The Hottie and the Nottie.
She was also a member of the Writer’s Guild of America.
Heidi Ferrer wrote about the pain of her long-haul Covid-19 symptoms on her blog. She contracted the virus last April. Deadline reports that she was in “constant pain”, and experienced “neurological tremors and numerous other worsening symptoms.”
Her husband told TMZ that Covid-19 is a “public health crisis that must be addressed quickly”.
Guthe asked that in lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Infantile Outreach Scoliosis Programme, an organisation whose work “saved” their son’s spine.
If you have been impacted by any of the issues raised in this article, help is available. You can contact Pieta House on 1800 247 47. You can also call The Samaritans on 116 123.
