Pregnant YouTube star Nicole Thea and her unborn baby did not die in childbirth, a close friend says. The heartbroken friend was responding to rumours and false reports circulating online after the 24-year-old businesswoman, influencer and dancer died on Saturday morning, just weeks away from her due date.
Nicole, who was eight months pregnant with her first child, and her boyfriend Jeffery Frimpong, the street dancer Global Boga, were expecting a baby boy that they had already named Reign.
The cause of the young Londoner's death has not been announced by her grief-stricken family, and a friend has told Mirror Online that claims she died in labour are "incorrect".
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