Faking your own death can be pretty epic – as long as you get away with it, and end up thousands of miles away from home with a new identity and ensure no one on the planet ever finds out. However, faking your death for 24 hours for the sole reason of ‘spreading awareness’ of cervical cancer is extremely ill-advised, as Bollywood actress Poonam Pandey found out recently.
Who’s even heard of Poonam Pandey? Well, not me until 5 minutes ago. But she’s got over 1 million followers on Instagram so she’s clearly very popular. She even gets NSFW on the platform now and again:
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Anyway, over the weekend Poonam had her PR people share an Instagram post announcing that she had passed away from cervical cancer, which obviously came as a shock to everyone:
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After having her friends, fans and the Bollywood community mourn her for 24 hours, Poonam Pandey rose from the dead like The Undertaker to reveal that she was in fact alive and well! She staged the whole thing to raise awareness for cervical cancer! Classic!
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As you can imagine, people did not appreciate this at all. Here’s the general sentiment in her comments section:
And that’s basically what you can expect to happen when your fake death goes wrong. The people you devastated with the news won’t just forgive you and feel relief that you’re alive; they’ll be upset at you for lying to them in the first place and mad at themselves for falling for it. The trust has been completely destroyed between you!
The best thing Poonam Pandey can go now is to blame it all on her PR team and announce that she’s sacked them and then go back to shooting erotic Bollywood movies like nothing ever happened. We’re all for raising awareness of cervcal cancer (and all cancers in fact), but this was definitely not the best way to go about it. Lesson learned for the future.
For the woman who divorced her husband because he was ‘killing her vibe’ by feeling sorry for himself for having cancer, click HERE.
