Indian Actress Fakes Cervical Cancer Death in Shocking Media Hoax

Poonam Pandey was a beloved Bollywood actress. “Every living form that ever came in contact with her was met with pure love and kindness,” her death announcement on Instagram read Friday morning.

Except Pandey isn’t actually dead.

“I am here, alive,” the actress wrote on Instagram one day after the news of her untimely (and untrue) passing broke. She admitted to the stunt on Saturday and then turned all the media attention on her—which included heartfelt obituaries, thousands of mournful comments and trending status on social media—toward cervical cancer, which she had previously said was the cause of her “death.”

Read more at The Daily Beast.