“I Nearly Died While Filming in a Coffin”- Actress Maame Gyanwaa

Veteran Ghanaian actress Mavis Yeboah, popularly known as Maame Gyanwaa, has revealed that she nearly lost her life while filming a cemetery scene in which she was placed inside a casket.

The actress made the revelation in a video shared on X , dated September 8, 2026. She said the incident happened while she was filming a movie scene in which she played the role of a murdered wife.

According to Maame Gyanwaa, the shoot took place around midnight in a cemetery. Her colleague, Mr. Beautiful, who played her husband, was supposed to open the casket shortly after it was closed. However, he remained in character and delayed the scene while crying.

She said the delay left her lying inside the closed casket for an extended period, where she became extremely cold before eventually passing out.

“I was placed in a casket while acting. If not It is by the grace of God, I would have died there. This happened when Prof. Atta-Mills passed on.

By the time it got to my scene, it was almost 12:00 AM at the cemetery. They fixed my costume and had even finished digging the grave. So I was placed in the coffin.

Mr Beautiful, who was my husband, was supposed to open the coffin in a brief moment, but instead, he was crying, and it took a while. So while lying in the coffin, I felt the place was very cold, and I passed out,” she said in one of Ghana’s local dialect Twi.

The actress said the situation became even more troubling after the crew discovered that all the footage recorded at the cemetery had been corrupted.

“The director and crew were at a standstill while Mr Beautiful was crying, and I was lying in the coffin, fully closed. All I could hear was people calling my name from afar.

“Could you imagine that after everything and the scenes we shot in the cemetery, we got to the hotel and all the recorded videos were corrupted? We couldn’t play any of the scenes. We had to go and shoot again. We had to go see the people in charge of the cemetery and pay homage before we shot again.

Maame Gyanwaa also recalled another frightening incident involving a pool scene, saying she narrowly escaped possible electrocution.

“There was a scene where Mr Beautiful had to push me into a pool. So before we started that scene, I turned my back and prayed.

Even the director shouted at me, asking why I had turned my back when they were ready.

“Before they could say ‘action,’ the camera and lighting equipment fell into the water. So, assuming I was already in the pool, I would have been electrocuted,” she added.