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Actress Vanessa Lachey opened up implicit the "difficult week" for the NCIS: Hawaiʻi household aft the decease of amusement writer Yakira Chambers: "Yakira, I volition miss you, we volition miss you."
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Vanessa Lachey is mourning the nonaccomplishment of NCIS Hawai'i writer Yakira Chambers.
The histrion honored her precocious workfellow successful a moving tribute connected Instagram.
"It's been a hard week for our NCIS Hawai'i Ohana arsenic we mourn the abrupt nonaccomplishment of 1 of our talented writers, Yakira Chambers," Vanessa wrote Dec. 5 alongside a headshot of Yakira and a 2nd representation of her writer's chair decorated successful her honor. "All of the stories you spot america bring to beingness connected screen, started successful the penning country and Yakira specifically wrote immoderate of my favourite moments. She ever wrote my character, Jane Tennant, arsenic a beardown badass pistillate and mother. It was important to her… and us."
She continued, "Her dependable was powerful, and it volition beryllium missed greatly. My bosom goes retired to her household and loved ones who are presently figuring retired beingness arsenic this has near them successful an unexpected precarious position. They've acceptable up a GoFundMe page. Any tiny donation would beryllium appreciated(link successful my Bio). I americium inactive astatine a nonaccomplishment and person hugged my babies adjacent tighter than usual. Yakira, I volition miss you, we volition miss you… Rest In Love My Beautiful Angel."
The upcoming Jan. 9 episode of NCIS Hawai'i—airing the week aft a three-hour NCIS beingness crossover premiere Jan. 2—will honor Yakira and her enactment connected the CBS drama.
Yakira, who was a communicative exertion connected the NCIS spinoff, died astatine the property of 42 connected Nov. 30, her household told Deadline. She was with her ma astatine a promenade successful Newport Beach, Calif., erstwhile she started suffering breathing difficulties and past collapsed. Her preliminary origin of death, her household told the outlet, has been attributed to acute asphyxia.
Her mother, Constance Chambers told the outlet, "I miss her and volition emotion her to eternity. I don't cognize what I volition bash without her."
Following her passing, Yakira's household besides released a connection to Deadline.
"Her abrupt and untimely decease has near america each grief-stricken," the connection began. "Yakira was a light, a awesome of anticipation to our community, a steward of our culture, and a practice of what pursuing your dreams looks like."
"Yakira's passionateness extended beyond her regular enactment successful the business; she loved helping others make a mode retired of nary way," her household continued. "She believed successful equity, and the demarginalization of persons of colour to make a level playing tract for all. This passionateness was actualized successful the signifier of her foundation, CureConstanceFoundation, an enactment calved retired of the necessity for uncovering fiscal options for those successful wellness crisis."
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