Child actor Millena Brandão, who appeared in Netflix’s “Sintonia” series, died Friday at age 11 after a mystery illness struck.
Millena experienced excruciating headaches, leg pain, loss of consciousness and 13 cardiac arrests over several days in which doctors suspected dengue fever or perhaps a brain tumor but never determined the exact cause, her mother told Brazilian outlet G1. A mass was discovered later and will be biopsied, the outlet reported.
“The doctors still haven’t said what really happened to my daughter and what killed her,” Thays Brandão said in the English-translated interview published Saturday. “It’s a question mark.”
The youngster was seen by three medical facilities in Sao Paulo, Brazil, during her ordeal, resulting in an investigation, G1 noted.
As her suffering mounted, Millena had her first cardiac arrest and “never woke up again,” her mom said.
A dozen more cardiac arrests followed. On Friday she was confirmed to be brain dead, and her parents consented to having the machines sustaining her life turned off, the mother explained.
Her parents honored her passing in an Instagram message.
“On May 2nd we lost our little girl, but I’m sure she’s in the arms of our almighty father and in a beautiful place to play,” they wrote, according to a translation. “The memories we spent together will stay in my memory and I’ll never forget your joy that infected everyone around you.”
“Sintonia,” a drama about youths in a Sao Paulo favela, has run for five seasons on Netflix.
Millena also appeared in the soap opera “The Childhood of Romeo and Juliet” and was a model and influencer with nearly 200,000 followers on Instagram.
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