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 usually solely impacts youngsters 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 reason for the aches.
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A GoFundMe was launched final 12 months to lift cash to get Smith different therapy because the most cancers unfold to her lungs, elevating almost $10,000. On the time of the fundraiser, her buddy wrote that her most cancers had reached stage 4.
Within the 12 months that adopted, Smith documented her battle with the illness all the best way 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 mentioned Smith had misplaced her capacity to maneuver or discuss by the weekend.
These updates got here simply hours earlier than her boyfriend, Andrew Moore, fought again tears in a video on Monday. He mentioned Smith had died round 11:30 a.m. earlier that day.
“We’ll by no means let Leah be forgotten,” he mentioned.
Moore mentioned that Smith learn each remark left below her movies, thanking everybody for being so supportive in her battle. The video saying her passing had amassed 9 million views and 63,000 feedback by Tuesday afternoon.
“Anybody who mentioned something good ever, it means greater than you notice,” Moore mentioned. Smith’s brother, Liam, added within the feedback, “Thank everybody for all they’ve finished for Leah and this household.”
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