Actor Ivan Skitsan died because of a chicken bone in the esophagus

The cause of death of 39-year-old actor Ivan Skitsan, a native of the Nizhny Novgorod region, was a bone stuck in the throat. This is reported by the Telegram channel Mash.

According to preliminary data, the artist choked on a chicken bone and tried to push it with a homemade device made of wire and a tube from an IV. After that, he had severe chest pain, and the man was hospitalized. Doctors removed the bone and found a deep wound to the esophagus - the actor seriously injured himself trying to cope with a foreign object. He was placed in intensive care, where he died on November 3.

Skitsan’s esophagus was narrowed from birth: because of this feature, he underwent more than ten operations, and over time it became even more difficult to swallow – then he made a device from a wire and a tube with which he pushed food. Earlier it was reported that the actor died of a long illness, later there was a version about cancer.

Skitsan worked at the Gorky Moscow Art Theatre and the Theatre in the South-West, starred in the film “Weary of the Sun – 2” and the series “Spouses”, “Ranetki”, “Cream” and other projects, taught in the theater department of the Molchanov Children’s Music School.