A day after we learned the devastating news that Hollywood writer Jas Waters died at age 39, her cause of death has been revealed. Waters died of suicide by hanging, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s office.
The news of Waters’ death was confirmed Wednesday by writers on “This Is Us” in a Twitter statement. Prior to the statement from the show’s official writers’ account, a friend identified as Sade Sellers confirmed Waters’ death on Twitter.
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Also known as JasFly, Waters was celebrated for her profound writing and storytelling abilities. She worked heavily in hip-hop and on TV shows such as NBC’s “This Is Us” and Showtime’s “Kidding.”
She also worked on hit projects such as “What Men Want”, “Spiderman 1″ and “Spiderman 2”, “Hardball”, “Save The Last Dance”, MTV’s “Real World”, “Barbershop 1” and “Barbershop 2” and the NBC’s “ER,” according to her IMDB page.
In a 2018 interview with “Shadow And Act”, Waters said she always knew the trajectory of her life was destiny.
“I’m very audacious. This was always the plan for my life, even before I knew it,” Waters said. “A billion things had to conspire together for me to get here. Listen, I was raised in an old folks’ home. I never had a traditional life; I never had a safe, cookie-cutter, predictable, affirming life.”
Waters was vivacious and inspirational. Her manner of death urged people to remind others to check on their loved ones, no matter how well they seem.
In her last tweet three days ago, Waters wrote, “Some sh*t just changes you.”
