Former X Factor and The Voice participant Natanya Brook, also known as Tanya, has passed away.
She passed away on August 2, 2021, but the report of her demise has just made its way through the mainstream media.
Tanya was a talented singer who hit the limelight after auditioning for two of the top talent hunt shows; The X Factor and The Voice.
Another thing fans do not know about her is that she was a smart gamer.
Natanya Brook autopsy: Cause of death, Xbox, and how she died
Per reports, Tanya died while playing Xbox with her friends online at the time of her death.
On August 1, 2021, Tanya reportedly stayed up until around 2 am playing a video game with her friends. And midway through the gaming, she suddenly fell unconscious.
This was revealed during a court hearing this week.
The following morning her mum, Jenny Brook, checked her room at their home in Aylesford, near Maidstone, Kent, to find her daughter laying up against the bed, but thought she was asleep.
A few hours later she returned and found her daughter in the same position and knew something was wrong.
She tried CPR and frantically rang the emergency services, but Tanya was pronounced dead by paramedics.
Ms Brook’s mum, Jenny, told the court Tanya’s gaming friends who were playing with her at the time, remembered hearing the gamer suddenly say “ooh, I feel…” and then silence.
Per the autopsy report from Dr. Deirdre McKenna, the 23-year-old singer had a history of absent and vacant seizures, including having childhood absence epilepsy at the age of six – a condition which results in the sudden loss of awareness and to stare into space for a few seconds.
The report further revealed there were no abnormalities in any of Ms. Brook’s major organs and that she was unable to find the exact mechanism which caused her death.
But she found that on the balance of probabilities the medical cause of death was a sudden unexpected death in epilepsy.
