Ricky Martin Not Dead, Singer Responds to Death Hoax on Instagram
Last week, a shocking YouTube video appeared online, which claims to show footage of a car wreck which had allegedly killed Ricky Martin. The video, which surfaced on Jan. 3, shows a news reporter holding a press conference claiming that Martin had been killed in a car crash on a freeway in Los Angeles, California. The fabricated report also had grief-stricken comments supposedly from Martin's family, as well as a fake statement from Ian Thorpe— the Australian swimmer-- and the statement referred to a child that the pair had supposedly raised.
Fans of the singer immediately took to social media and were devastated. However, some observed that the video claimed the report came from Marin County, which is north of San Francisco, but it also reported the accident occurred 400 miles away in L.A.
Martin made light of the death hoax by posting pictures of him soaking up the sun. On Jan. 4, he posted a picture of a beautiful beach on Instagram with the caption, "Hello from #heaven." He also posted the same message on Twitter, along with two laughing emojis, a palm tree, a flower, and swimming and surfing emojis. After two hours, he shared a photo of himself looking at the sunset, captioned "#sunset in #heaven."
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Martin, whose real name is Enrique Martin Morales, has two twin boys, Matteo and Valentino, who were born in 2008 via surrogate mother. He serves as a coach on "The Voice Mexico" and he's also releasing the new album "A Quien Quiera Escuchar (For Whoever Wants to Listen)".
Martin is the first celebrity who was the victim of a death hoax for 2015. Last year, other celebrities who supposedly "died" include Miley Cyrus, Macaulay Culkin, Axl Rose, Hugh Hefner and Betty White.
