Yvonne Nelson’s ‘son’ is dead

Posted on February 7, 2015February 7, 2015
by Nana Kwesi Coomson
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In a post on Facebook, Yvonne Nelson sums up the death of a child who played the role of her child in the movie. The child died 2 weeks after shooting the movie with the child’s life story. Below is the post unedited by Yvonne Nelson;

I’m broken! I’m sad! How can you die Kweku, just 2weeks after shooting my movie, playing my son. I’m soooooo sad! R.I.P

This lil angel I have in my arms is the reason why I shot ‘IF TOMORROW NEVER COMES’, he inspired a huge part of the story. I heard about him 2years ago from @luckielawson.

I sat down with @pascalamanfo and we decided to get a script ready…..after 2years I decided one morning I was ready to shoot…so we scheduled everything….wrapped up 2 weeks ago on the 25th of January only to get a call this afternoon about my lil angel’s death.

He was suffering from a cerebral malformation, he could not sit, stand, walk or even talk…..I asked myself one evening on set, what if a mosquito bites him, who will even scratch it for him, I’ve been crying throughout this afternoon. I’m heart broken. Life is too sad.R.I.P my angel.

Author: Nana Kwesi Coomson with Yvonne Nelson’s post on Facebook

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An Entrepreneur, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Communications Executive and Philanthropist. Editor-in-Chief of www.233times.com. A Senior Journalist with Ghanaian Chronicle Newspaper. An alumnus of Adisadel College where he read General Arts. His first degree is in Bachelor of Arts - Political Science (major) and History (minor) from the University of Ghana. He holds MSc in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Energy with Public Relations (PR) from the Robert Gordon University in the United Kingdom. He is a 2018 Mandela Washington Fellow who studied at Clark Atlanta University in USA on the Business and Entrepreneurship track.

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