Beloved TikTok star Leah Smith died Monday after a years-long battle with a uncommon bone most cancers, her boyfriend revealed in a heartbreaking submit 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 acquired 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 behind the aches.
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A GoFundMe was launched final 12 months to lift cash to get Smith different remedy 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 12 months that adopted, Smith documented her battle with the illness all the way in which into her remaining 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 capability 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 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 underneath 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 understand,” Moore mentioned. Smith’s brother, Liam, added within the feedback, “Thank everybody for all they’ve carried out for Leah and this household.”
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