After Charlbi Dean’s demise at age 32, her brother is remembering the actress as “extraordinarily caring and very loving, greater than anybody I may have ever identified.”

On Wednesday, Alex Jacobs informed Rolling Stone that his sister’s sudden demise in New York Metropolis on Monday occurred after she started experiencing “minor” signs and shortly requested her fiancé, Luke Volker, to take her to an emergency room. She died simply hours later.

“This occurred actually inside the span of a day: getting a headache, going to sleep, waking up her boyfriend and saying please take me to the hospital,” Jacobs, 21, informed Rolling Stone.

“We nonetheless aren’t completely certain [what happened],” Jacobs added. “There’s an post-mortem being carried out which we all know may take fairly some time. However what we’ve heard [that] there was a viral an infection in her lungs.”

Jacobs informed Rolling Stone that Dean was concerned in a “very, very unhealthy automobile accident” round 2009, after which medical doctors eliminated her spleen. She additionally suffered damaged ribs and a damaged again within the accident, in keeping with her brother.

“[The spleen is] concerned in preventing off infections, and that would have had one thing to do what occurred,” Jacobs mentioned. “Her spleen not being there simply added on to the rationale why she maybe could not struggle it off.”

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On Tuesday, PEOPLE confirmed that Dean died of an unspecified sickness. The a South African-born actress stars within the upcoming movie Triangle of Disappointment, which received the Cannes Movie Competition‘s highest honor, the Palme d’Or, earlier this yr.

“She was extraordinarily caring and very loving, greater than anybody I may have ever identified,” Jacobs informed Rolling Stone. “She reminded us day by day how a lot she beloved us.”

“That is fairly surprising for us proper now, having one thing like that occur. She was actually the glue that stored us collectively,” he mentioned.

Jacobs informed Rolling Stone that he’s frightened about Dean’s fiancé, 26-year-old Volker, within the wake of her demise, saying that he and the remainder of Dean’s household “love him a lot.”

“I can not think about what it will have been like, being there,” Jacobs mentioned. “My mother’s greatest fear was that she was going to die alone. He was along with her, as shut as he could possibly be.”

On Wednesday, Volker, a mannequin/artist, shared a short video on his Instagram to point out appreciation for messages he obtained after the demise of Dean, who was additionally identified for roles within the 2010 South African movie Spud and the superhero CW sequence Black Lightning.

“Hello, everybody. I needed to simply publish an image of Charlbi, however it is a bit laborious,” started Volker. “And simply needed to let you understand I see all of your messages, all of the love, and I recognize it. I actually do. It is simply I can not actually reply to them proper now. However thanks, guys. I recognize it. I really like you.”

In an April eight Instagram publish, Dean revealed that she and Volker received engaged in New York Metropolis. She wrote alongside pictures from the proposal, which occurred on the spot the place they shared their first kiss.

When she had her breakout efficiency in Triangle of Disappointment, Volker expressed how proud he was of Dean on social media in Might.

“three years later!!” he wrote in an Instagram publish. “In opposition to all odds, nearly unimaginable obstacles, they pulled it off! The movie is a masterpiece from prime to backside everybody did a spectacularly job getting it carried out. I could not be extra pleased with you my love.”