The death of the journalist Ioana Popescu sparked indignation, after her lover, Mihai Stefan Lungu, began to ask for donations for the funeral. The journalist Mara Bănică transmitted that, in the situation where no relative will raise the inanimate body from the morgue, the state will deal with the funeral.
Mara Bănică, reaction after the statements of Ioana Popescu’s lover
The former television star Ioana Popescu died on the night of September 20 to 21. According to her lover, Mihai Stefan Lungu, she suffered from several conditions. Ioana Popescu had been diagnosed with esophageal varicose veins, hepatitis C, heart and ulcer palpitations.
“I came and stayed for two or three weeks in Bucharest, after which he started to feel bad. I bought his pills, began to swell. In the last period, he had a very swollen belly, he was constipated. I proposed to go to the hospital, but he did not want,” he confessed.
Ioana Popescu’s lover suggested that she had staged her death
For Cancan, he initially said that he did not receive much information about Ioana Popescu’s death from the authorities, considering that she is not related to her. Moreover, he even suggested that it could have staged his death.
“A guy called me who said he was from the police. Yes? But I know if he was from the police, that he was blocked. identify.
He told me he was suffering from those, those. Well, he was suffering. And I suffer from not knowing what. And he knows only the mother and one or two friends. But I may suffer from something else. But why didn’t he tell me? Come to identify the body, see her is or not. Is at the morgue or is not at the morgue ”he said.
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Later, he began to ask for money for Ioana Popescu’s funeral.
“I appeal to all the acquaintances and friends Ioana Mihaela Popescu. Whoever wants to help or support me financially for all the necessary steps to her burial, I leave you an account! If you want and you can!he wrote.
At the same time, yesterday he announced that Ioana Popescu died at the hospital: “I have the official information from the Bucharest Police Section 16, where I also officially declared it that he died in St. John’s Hospital in Bucharest on September 21, 2025, his body can be claimed by the family, within 10 days from death or in the next 3 weeks by any knowledge (8:30 pm).
Mara Bănică: “I can understand the despair for money”
Mara Bănică tried to obtain information about Ioana Popescu’s death.
“I learned a series of information about Lana Popescu’s death. I received all kinds of phones from many acquaintances, artists who interacted with her over time and were very impressed by this hard fate.
He died at the age of 45, in a hospital in Bucharest. They all told me that somewhere a gentleman appeared, a beloved, current loved, were for about a month together, asking for money. I called the hospital, I talked to those from the Holy Loan. On Friday, the documents were made to be raised by social assistance, unfortunately. There was not presented any kind of relative of grade 4 to have the right to raise it. So, it seems that until this moment a state is buried, if no variant is found“, Mara Bănică said on Facebook.
He also mentioned Ioana Popescu’s lover.
“I repeat, until now, the state is the one to bury it. I try to find out when and how it will be lifted and, maybe, there at the cemetery to announce where and how it will take place.
At least to make him a Christian cage and bring a priest, to have a job and a remembrance properly. I will not judge this man, I can understand the despair for money, but, given the diseases that Ioana suffered-and I do not go into detail-I think more important than to raise money would be to go to do some analysis. “said Mara Bănică.
