Housemate’s struggle with cystic fibrosis was featured on 2004 show.
Frankie Abernathy, the punk rock-adoring former “Real World: San Diego” housemate whose struggle with cystic fibrosis helped to further raise national awareness about the chronic lung disease, died Saturday evening in her mother Abbie Hunter’s Shorewood, Wisconsin, home. An official cause of death has yet to be determined; Abernathy was 25.
According to Hunter, Abernathy was diagnosed with cystic
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