Zainab Sedky had an accident on stage that almost lost her life while embodying the hanging in a play.
“The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, in which a girl hangs herself at the end of the story, and a trick was used to deceive the audience that she was actually being hanged. Unfortunately, the trick failed for mechanical reasons and she was almost actually hanged, not just acting.
The artist received the merit award for arts from Egypt, then the pioneers award in celebration of the golden jubilee of Egyptian cinema from the Film Association.
The artist Zainab Sedky has strong friendships with her fellow artists and her life is full of humanitarian situations, including her keenness to bid farewell to the artist, Ferdous Mohamed, her close friend following her departure, and she insisted on washing her herself.
She had a strong friendship with the late artist Suleiman Naguib that spanned more than 20 years.
On January 15, 1955, “Zainab” went to “Suleiman” and she was very moved and had a certain feeling that she would die soon because of the dreams in which she sees death daily. Her will!
Najib took the matter with Tariqah, and said to her: (It is possible, Zainab, that you are terrified of coming to me for this.. How is this age one.. This is how you look for us and we are the ones who will die), and completed the clowning in order to relieve her and get her out of the state of depression that dominated upon her, but she insisted on her request and he agrees to receive her will, and indeed Najib agreed following her insistence.
On January 18, 3 days following their meeting, “Suleiman Najib” died without any fatigue or diseases, and “Zainab” collapsed upon hearing the news and spent 15 days in intensive care.
It is a strange paradox that Zainab Sidqi fulfilled Suleiman’s prophecy, and her life extended to nearly 98 years, and she spent the rest of her life in the nursing home following retiring from art until her death.
Zeinab Sedky passed away in May 1993, and she is the longest-lived artist of her generation.
