Oliver Spedding, former player of the London Crystal Palace soccer team and who later began a career in the world of adult cinema under the pseudonym Damian Oliver after leaving the world of soccer; He passed away last Friday, November 17 at 34 years of age.
The footballer, who decided to dedicate himself to the world of adult cinema after abandoning his sports career, leaves behind two daughters, Izabella and Olivia. In addition, until just over two months ago, he was in a relationship with fellow British porn actress Sophie Anderson.
The athlete also played for Croydon FC, a club that has shared the death of the player, for whom they observed a minute of silence in their last match. Liam Giles, the club's chairman, paid tribute to Spedding, a "field warrior" who was apparently intent on returning to the world of football.
"He will be missed by everyone at the club," they say from Croydon. "Rest in peace, Ollie." According to his entourage, just two weeks ago she had been talking precisely about that, after showing his regret for having started a career in the world of adult cinema.
"When I was at Crystal Palace, I would have stayed with them. I would have earned more playing football. Being a porn star is not as good as people think," he confessed in an interview on the podcast Anything Goes with James English, assuring who barely earned 100 euros per film.
His death, of which the cause has not been revealed, comes just a month after the former soccer player suffered a spectacular accident in which he fell from the fourth floor, in which he fractured an eye, his knee and three fingers; for which he needed surgery.
The tragedy comes just a few months after the player's ex-girlfriend, Sophie Anderson, almost suffered a fatal fate due to a problem with one of her breast implants last May. According to what she revealed to the media, the model had one of those implants explode, which led to sepsis, the body's most serious reaction to an infection.
Since then, the actress had feared for her career, suffering from a great lack of self-confidence, in addition to everything she had to go through financially, with all the operations she required to solve her problem.
As fate would have it, the player's death came just two months after Sophie Anderson was the protagonist of a hoax in which she was presumed dead, started precisely by Oliver Spedding, who claimed that Anderson had died from an overdose and even gave the date and time of his funeral. The actress's friends had to come forward to deny it.
"We've been through a lot in the last year," the actress said then, after the speculation went viral. "We've been through some really tough times, but it just shows how strong we are as a couple. Not everyone could have survived what we've been through."
