“Ballet dancer Michaela Mabinty DePrince, who came to the United States from an orphanage in war-torn Sierra Leone and performed on some of the world’s biggest stages, has died, her family said in a statement. She was 29.”
What a terrible tragedy…a woman who endured so much strife and trauma during her hardscrabble childhood and yet accomplished so much and ascended to such heights in the ballet world.
Naturally no one is even speculating about what may have happened. The only clue is a passage in her Wiki bio, to wit: “In September 2020, DePrince took time off from her career to grieve and deal with her mental health through therapy.”
The apparent implication is that she died by her own hand. What a sad, sad tale.
