Dawson’s Creek star looks like she hasn’t aged a day – 25 years after her character was killed off on the teen drama

HER character's grim decease shocked Dawson's Creek fans 25 years ago.

Abby Morgan, played by Monica Keena, 45, became the archetypal quality connected the teen play to dice erstwhile she perished successful play two.

The mean miss crashed a wedding with pal Jen Lindley earlier boozing connected a dock close-by.

Disaster struck erstwhile Abby bashed her caput connected a rod causing her to autumn into the freezing h2o and drown.

More than 2 decades later, the Los Angeles-based histrion has hardly aged.

Though she hasn't had a high-profile relation for a fig of years, Monica did enactment alongside horror fable Robert Englund successful 2003's Freddy vs Jason.

Two years aboriginal she starred other Tommy Lee Jones successful acheronian comedy Man of the House.

More precocious she had a cameo relation successful Grey's Anatomy that saw her quality brutally impaled connected a rod aft a bid crash.

However, her enactment connected 14 episodes of Dawson's Creek successful the precocious 90s remains her champion known.

While the hugely fashionable programme had the imaginable to elevate to stardom similar it did with Katie Holmes and Michelle Williams, Monica followed her bosom and decided continuing arsenic a main quality connected the amusement wasn't for her.

Show creator Kevin Williamson antecedently told Variety that helium thought Monica was fed up of filming successful Wilmington, North Carolina.

He said: "She was, like, begging to beryllium killed off. Unlike the different actors connected the show, I deliberation that she wasn't arsenic excited to beryllium there. I loved her and I deliberation she's awesome.

"She was game. I ran into her a mates years aboriginal and she loved the experience, she conscionable didn't privation to beryllium connected the show."

Some viewers felt the quality of Abby was fixed a earthy woody and, contempt her evident shortcomings, was misunderstood.

Writing successful a instrumentality forum much than 2 decades aft her exit, 1 idiosyncratic said: "Yes they showed her being a spiteful hostile bully truthful frequently. She was playing the relation of an antagonistic sort. Causing trouble, benignant of similar Valerie Malone oregon something.

"But the backlash towards her, earlier and aft her tragic end, was cartoonish. They benignant of hide that she was a literal child. We're seeing her astatine ages 15 and 16 connected this show. She had not afloat developed an big encephalon yet."

Another modern time instrumentality added: "I'm virtually connected the occurrence of her death. I deliberation this is astir apt the worst occurrence I've seen arsenic a newcomer to Dawson's Creek. They did Abby incorrect for sidesplitting her off."

Monica erstwhile had a troubled narration with Terminator 2 prima Edward Furlong.

Over the people disconnected the relationship, the histrion was arrested galore times for allegations of home unit and Monica erstwhile filed a restraining bid against him.

However, they were pictured looking blessed unneurotic arsenic friends arsenic precocious arsenic 2023.