At 19, stunningly beautiful Alyssa Funke, a student at the University of Wisconsin at River Falls, is just beginning to live a promising life.
19-Year-Old Nigerian Student Commits Suicide After Receiving Abuse For Acting Porn
She had a beautiful life ahead of her but now she is dead after her porn acting stint put her in the line of social media abuse
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Beyond being just beautiful, Funke is also extremely intelligent - a straight-A chemistry student with dreams of becoming an anesthesiologist!
Sadly, all that is wasted as she is now dead, after shooting herself to death on April 16.
Hers is a sad tale.
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Funke decided she wanted an adventure and took stroll into the dark world of amateur porn. She participated in a sex video with a stranger in Las Vegas using the name ‘Stella Ann’ for CastingCouch-X.
"I’m Stella Ann. I’m 18, from Minnesota, and I’m really looking forward to get started," she said to the camera in the video.
Unfortunately, her former classmates at Stillwater High School (her secondary school) found the video which was posted online in March this year and attacked her on social media.
Alyssa was mercilessly picked-on on Twitter and Facebook.
Initially, she fought back.
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"Pornstar status’ and ‘FAMOUS for dayzzzzz," she tweeted.
Apparently, the abuse became too much for her to handle, and the 19-year-old took the option of suicide on April 16 after struggling with depression.
She shot herself on her family's boat.
Many believe her death is related to the abusive comments directed at her and her family subsequently started an online campaign tagged Alyssa Stop Bullying Fund to sensitize people about cyberbullying.
Reports say her biological father Rashad Bowman was jailed in 2001 for fraud while her mother and a boyfriend were once charged with drug-dealing.
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Local police are still investigating her death but do not consider the 'abusive' messages criminal.
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