Media personality Ciru Muriuki has spoken candidly about the profound pain she endured following the death of her fiancé, the legendary actor Charles Ouda, describing how the instant loss drastically altered her life and severely impacted her body and mind.
In an interview with Stephanie Nganga on Wednesday, December 10, 2025, Muriuki shared that the devastating loss encompassed not just the end of their cherished relationship but also the complete destruction of the future they had meticulously planned together.
She described the grieving period as intensely heavy and confusing, explaining that she was simultaneously mourning the partner she loved and the life they were supposed to have.
“It was mourning him. We lost such an important person,” she said, articulating the immense difficulty in accepting the immediate reality of his death.
Muriuki explained that the shift from joy and anticipation to complete heartbreak was sudden and jarring: “I went from planning a wedding to figuring out cremation.”
The Physical Toll of Shock
Ciru detailed how the weight of her grief took a severe physical toll, specifically leading to dramatic weight loss.
“I couldn’t eat, I lost so much weight,” she shared.
She revealed that during the initial weeks following Charlie’s passing, she experienced an overwhelming level of shock she had never known before. This trauma was so extreme that it resulted in rapid physical decline.
“That period of first… like $12$ weeks, I realised that you could actually lose $30\%$ of your body weight.”
She attributed the extreme weight loss to a cognitive inability to process the tragedy. “Because of grief, I could not understand what was happening,” she said, describing how each day felt unreal. Muriuki concluded that the entire, harrowing experience felt like waking up in a completely different, unrecognizable world.
