Latvian basketball player Janis Timma was found dead after an apparent suicide in Moscow, Russian state media reports reported early Tuesday.

An unnamed emergency official told state news agency TASS that the 32-year-old’s body was found in the entrance to an apartment building in central Moscow. According to the official, suicide was the preliminary cause of death.

It was not immediately clear why Timma may have committed suicide, but the emergency official told TASS that a phone with his “last wish” was found next to his body. An unnamed source told Ren TV that it was the sentence “Call Anya” appeared on his phone.

Anya is the nickname of Russian-Ukrainian pop star and Timma’s ex-wife Anna Sedokova, who announced this fall that she had filed for divorce after four years of marriage and celebrated her 42nd birthday on Monday.

Sedokova tearfully appeared on Instagram on Tuesday to say her life has been “hell” in recent years and urged her followers to help her hide the news of Timma’s death from her young children. Timma and Sedokova have children from previous marriages, but none of their own.

According to the Baza Telegram news channel, which has ties to Russian law enforcement agencies, Timma died of asphyxia. Timma reportedly arrived in Moscow two days before Sedokova’s birthday and stopped at a hotel in central Moscow, where he was later found dead.

Timma played for BC Zenit St. Petersburg and BC Khimki between 2015 and 2021.

Both clubs expressed sympathy to Timma’s friends and family about his “tragic” death. Timma’s newest club, Spain’s Obradoiro, said It provides Janis Timma’s family and friends with “warm support during this difficult time.”