RIP, Frankie Abernathy
Frankie Abernathy from MTVs Real World San Diego is reported to have succumbed to her hereditary disease of Cystic Fibrosis, Mucoviscidosis, as she passed away recently at the age of 25 as reported by The Pitch in Kansas City.
The information of her death was provided to The Pitch by people within the firm Barkley where her father worked as an ad executive.
Frankie showed signs of Cystic Fibrosis during the filming of The Real World San Diego which caused her difficulty in breathing and lowered her immune system.
Cystic Fibrosis Research states that 1 in 3,900 American children are born with this disease and that not even half survive to the age of 37.
Frankie Abernathy was born on July 5th, 1981 and raised in Blue Springs, Missouri which is less than 20 miles away from Kansas City.
She was the punk rocker of The Real World San Diego cast and abruptly left the show on Halloween in 2003.
Bunim-Murray Productions and MTV have no comment at this time.
As it's totally inappropriate to break "the fourth wall," I never talked with Frankie until after she left the show. She came back to do the main titles (show open), which incidentally is still my favorite of all the Real World opens. Just a bunch of attractive kids at golden hour on a beautiful beach in San Diego. We talked about some pretty basic things, mostly about clothes and socks, because she'd noticed what I wore during the season. She owned what I wore to the wrap party.
When the cast got snakes, hers got sick. So when she left after the wrap party, she couldn't take him with her. We took him to the snake doctor and got him fixed up. And when we fell in love with the snake. After some back and forth, she decided we could keep the snake. My friend Ed and I were to share it, but then we couldn't really take him on the road. He's happy now, out on the Barona reservation, which is where Ed was raised. We basically brought the snake to the desert.
UPDATE: according to Cameran, Frankie's family says that she passed away peacefully in her sleep on June 9.
The information of her death was provided to The Pitch by people within the firm Barkley where her father worked as an ad executive.
Frankie showed signs of Cystic Fibrosis during the filming of The Real World San Diego which caused her difficulty in breathing and lowered her immune system.
Cystic Fibrosis Research states that 1 in 3,900 American children are born with this disease and that not even half survive to the age of 37.
Frankie Abernathy was born on July 5th, 1981 and raised in Blue Springs, Missouri which is less than 20 miles away from Kansas City.
She was the punk rocker of The Real World San Diego cast and abruptly left the show on Halloween in 2003.
Bunim-Murray Productions and MTV have no comment at this time.
As it's totally inappropriate to break "the fourth wall," I never talked with Frankie until after she left the show. She came back to do the main titles (show open), which incidentally is still my favorite of all the Real World opens. Just a bunch of attractive kids at golden hour on a beautiful beach in San Diego. We talked about some pretty basic things, mostly about clothes and socks, because she'd noticed what I wore during the season. She owned what I wore to the wrap party.
When the cast got snakes, hers got sick. So when she left after the wrap party, she couldn't take him with her. We took him to the snake doctor and got him fixed up. And when we fell in love with the snake. After some back and forth, she decided we could keep the snake. My friend Ed and I were to share it, but then we couldn't really take him on the road. He's happy now, out on the Barona reservation, which is where Ed was raised. We basically brought the snake to the desert.
UPDATE: according to Cameran, Frankie's family says that she passed away peacefully in her sleep on June 9.