News of Indian actress and model Poonam Pandey’s death broke on Friday after a post on her social media accounts said she had ‘passed away from cervical cancer.’ He said ‘I am alive.’
Usually speculations are not believed but in this case the news was reported on Poonam Pandey’s own verified account. It was also reported on a local channel ‘India Today’ that his manager has confirmed this but the same channel also spoke to his alleged security guard in this regard who could not confirm his death. had been.
People on social media were surprised by this news and were hesitant to believe it, but why would someone say such a thing and finally this had come on their social media too.
In addition to the local media of India, this news also ran in the Pakistani and international media and even if you search on the internet, there are headlines like that Indian actress Poonam Pandey has died at the age of 32.
“I’m alive”
Today a video of him came out in which he said “I am alive”.
But unfortunately I cannot say the same about the hundreds and thousands of Indian women whose lives have ended due to cervical cancer.
He said in the video that compared to other cancers, people do not have information about cervical cancer and that this cancer can also be cured.
In her second video after the first video, Poonam Pandey apologized to people and said that her intention was to start a conversation about cervical cancer by surprising everyone.
According to him, there is not as much talk on this subject as it should be.
Poonam also admitted that it was a ‘big step’ for her to announce her death, thanks to which the topic is now being talked about.
‘Death announcement for cancer awareness’: Criticism of social media
After the video, the actress has been receiving a lot of criticism on social media, with users saying that it is not the right way to create awareness about cervical cancer, while some have blamed the actress for her ‘cheap fame’. Accused of spreading the news.
User Satyam Verma wrote on X, “It was a publicity stunt, they should be ashamed.”
“Those who questioned his death were right.”
Sahresh Javed disagreed with Poonam Pandey’s way of raising cancer awareness and said, “It is shameful to use a serious issue like cervical cancer for cheap PR.”
“It was a very strange way of conveying something,” said user Ravi on Instagram.