Michelle Trachtenberg died due to diabetes complications

To kill, just 39 years old, Michelle Trachtenbergwere the Complications of Diabetes Mellitoa pathology of which he had been suffering for some time. To reveal it was the magazine Peoplealmost two months after the discovery of the lifeless body of the star of Gossip Girlwhich took place in a New York apartment on February 26, 2025from the police forces arrived at the site following a call to 911.

Initially His death had been declared “indeterminate”That is, without specific cause, because the family had opposed the autopsy but from the first moments it had appeared clear that it had been serious health problems to rub it, also linked to a recent liver transplant.

Thesis confirmed these days by the office deL head doctor of New Yorkwhich after carrying out appropriate toxicological examinations dismissed any doubt by archiving the case as Natural death consequence of diabetes.

A disease that Michelle Trachtenberg has never hidden from friends and family, as a person revealed to her. «She was really sick and spoke openly with those around her how much she was suffering. He was pale, ladder and very thin». The latter, who had already aroused concern for some time, and who had given her several unpleasant comments under some Instagram posts, to which the actress had replied annoyed: “I am not malnourished, there are no problems. Why do you have to hate me? ».

Of his health conditions about a month ago had spoken, albeit without entering too much detail, also the representing the Trachtenberg Gary Mantoosh familyaffirming the actress had had back and bones problems before dying and that had also fallen several times.

According to her friend photographer Amanda de Cadenet then, “Michelle knew that death was a concrete possibility”. Born in New York on October 11, 1985 and raised in Sheeppshead Bay, Brooklyn, Michelle Trachtenberg began her career as a child, acting in the series The Adventures of Pete & Pete by Nickelodeon and then in the soap opera All My Children. The notoriety had arrived, however, above all for the roles of Georgina Sparks in Gossip Girl and Dawn Summers in Buffy the killing.

Work commitments that had allowed her to weave relationships that went beyond the set. Like friendship with Blake Livelywith her in Gossip Girl, who immediately after the disappearance said «It was electricity. You knew when it entered a room for the vibration to change. Everything he did, he did it at 200%». Or with Sarah Michelle Gellarhis co-protagonist of Buffy, who had remembered him by posting on social networks a series of photos that portrayed them together with the times of the show, accompanied by the writing «Michelle, listen to me. Listen to me. I love you. I will love you forever – and from a phrase taken directly by Buffy – the most difficult thing in this world is to live there. I will be courageous. I will live … for you ».