Beloved TikTok star Leah Smith died Monday after a years-long battle with a uncommon bone most cancers, her boyfriend revealed in a heartbreaking publish to her TikTok account on Tuesday.
Smith, solely 22, had used TikTok to doc her battle with Ewing’s Sarcoma—a uncommon bone illness that sometimes solely impacts kids and younger adults.
The English TikToker, who had greater than half 1,000,000 followers, first revealed her analysis in 2020, saying she obtained the horrifying information after she misplaced all feeling in her left leg and visited a physician. She’d beforehand ignored 10 months of again ache previous to her analysis, unaware of the horrific explanation for the aches.
A GoFundMe was launched final yr to lift cash to get Smith various therapy because the most cancers unfold to her lungs, elevating practically $10,000. On the time of the fundraiser, her good friend wrote that her most cancers had reached stage 4.
Within the yr that adopted, Smith documented her battle with the illness all the way in which into her ultimate days. The ultimate video the place she personally spoke to her followers got here on Wednesday, which was adopted by her mother posting heart-wrenching messages that stated Smith had misplaced her capacity to maneuver or speak by the weekend.
These updates got here simply hours earlier than her boyfriend, Andrew Moore, fought again tears in a video on Monday. He stated Smith had died round 11:30 a.m. earlier that day.
“We’ll by no means let Leah be forgotten,” he stated.
Moore stated that Smith learn each remark left beneath her movies, thanking everybody for being so supportive in her battle. The video asserting her passing had amassed 9 million views and 63,000 feedback by Tuesday afternoon.
“Anybody who stated something good ever, it means greater than you notice,” Moore stated. Smith’s brother, Liam, added within the feedback, “Thank everybody for all they’ve completed for Leah and this household.”