In a heavy-hearted note, singer Chinmayi Sripada paid tribute to actor Poonam Pandey who passed away on Friday. 

Chinmayi took to X (formerly Twitter) to express her feelings that the late model and social media influencer was widely criticised for her lifestyle despite teaching us how to "live unabashedly."

"Poonam Pandey was highly criticised, to state it politely, for the way she lived. She showed us to live unabashedly, believe in herself, expose the hypocrisy in our fake Puritan drama, and in her passing, the star child she is, has created such an awareness for HPV cancer, making this place better than how she found it. Thank you for travelling through Earth, Poonam. Safe travels, and I wish you a kinder Universe, elsewhere. I hope you don't come across humans if you so wish to reincarnate. You deserve better," Chinmayi said. 

Meanwhile, the mystery deepens surrounding Poonam Pandey's death barely days after she was seen attending a party in Goa. She was active on social media right through January with posts on the Ram temple, the Lakshadweep-Maldives controversy and her identity as a "Bharat citizen". There were videos of her swimming, riding a bike, speaking about the "Big Boss" winner and her former co-contestant from the reality show "Lock Upp" Munawwar Faruqui and several appearances at events.