When viewers met the Waterfords, the first Offred had already died. She had been coerced into an affair with Fred, and it made her life at the Waterford house even more unbearable. ... Offred had a hard time adjusting to this horrific life. She died by hanging herself in her bedroom—the same room June was later given.

Does June die in The Handmaid's Tale?

[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the Handmaid's Tale Season 4 finale “The Wilderness.”] ... The Hulu drama saw June (Elisabeth Moss) use her freedom — and her previous captor Fred's (Joseph Fiennes) lack of any — to her advantage, culminating in her and other handmaids brutally killing him in the woods.

What happened to Offred's predecessor?

It is revealed that this Offred, like her successor, was coerced into an emotional affair with the Commander and that Serena was infuriated when she found out. Shortly after, the Handmaid hanged herself from the chandelier in her room, with her body being discovered by Cora, one of the two Marthas inside the house.