Saying goodbye isn’t simple, particularly in relation to icons and stars followers have grown to like. A lot of such celebrities handed away in 2020 together with Kobe Bryant, Chadwick Boseman and Naya Rivera.
Bryant passed away in a helicopter crash on January 26 in Calabasas, California, alongside his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and 7 others. He was 41. The plane was en path to the previous Los Angeles Lakers participant’s Mamba Academy for a basketball observe close to Thousand Oaks, California. He’s survived by his spouse, Vanessa Bryant, and their three different daughters, Natalia, Bianka and Capri. Us Weekly confirmed in February that Kobe and Gianna had been laid to relaxation in a non-public service in Corona Del Mar, California.
Rivera was pronounced lifeless at age 33 in July after she took her 4-year-old son, Josey — whom she shared together with her ex-husband, Ryan Dorsey — out on a ship at Lake Piru in California. The Glee star was at first declared a missing person on July 8 when her son was discovered alone on the boat. Officers later introduced that she was presumed lifeless, and her body was recovered five days later.
“It’s believed that Naya and her son had been swimming within the lake close to the boat, and as they had been getting again into the boat, her son made it into the boat and Naya went underwater and didn’t resurface,” the sheriff’s division mentioned in an announcement to Us on the time.
Later that month, Regis Philbin died on July 24 on the age of 88 of natural causes. “His household and buddies are without end grateful for the time we obtained to spend with him — for his heat, his legendary humorousness, and his singular potential to make each day into one thing value speaking about,” his household mentioned in an announcement to Us concerning the former Dwell! With Regis and Kathie Lee cohost’s passing. “We thank his followers and admirers for his or her unbelievable assist over his 60-year profession and ask for privateness as we mourn his loss.”
Boseman, for his half, died on August 28 at age 43 following a secret four-year battle with colon cancer.
“It’s with immeasurable grief that we verify the passing of Chadwick Boseman,” the Black Panther star’s household wrote in an announcement. “Chadwick was recognized with stage III colon most cancers in 2016 and battled with it these final 4 years because it progressed to stage IV. A real fighter, Chadwick persevered by way of all of it, and introduced you most of the movies you might have come to like a lot. From Marshall to Da 5 Bloods, August Wilson‘s Ma Rainey’s Black Backside and several other extra, all had been filmed throughout and between numerous surgical procedures and chemotherapy. It was the glory of his profession to deliver King T’Challa to life in Black Panther. He died in his residence, together with his spouse and household by his aspect.”
Scroll all the way down to see Us Weekly’s tribute to the celebrities who died in 2020.
