MTV persona Ananda Lewis, who hosted exhibits together with the favored Total Request Live within the late ʼ90s, earlier than happening to host her personal daytime speak present, after which to talk brazenly about her battle with breast most cancers, has died, her sister introduced Wednesday on Fb. She was 52.

"She's free, and in His heavenly arms," her sister Lakshmi Emory captioned a publish. "Lord, relaxation her soul."

No reason behind dying was given, however Lewis had been vocal about having been identified with breast most cancers in 2018. She broke the information in 2020, explaining that she was sharing it within the hopes it will assist others.

"For a very very long time, I’ve refused mammograms, and that was a mistake," Lewis mentioned then. "I watched my mother get mammograms for 30 years virtually, and on the finish of that, she had breast most cancers, and I mentioned, 'Huh. Radiation publicity for years… breast most cancers. Yeah, I'm going to go. Thanks anyway.'"

Lewis mentioned she caught the tumor by way of a self-exam of her breasts, and she or he regretted that she had not caught it sooner.

"I would like you to get your mammograms," she suggested her followers.

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On the time, Lewis mentioned she had a nine-year-old son that she wanted to be there for.

"I’ve no intention on leaving him," she mentioned. "I don't wish to depart any of my children. I don't wish to depart my mates or my household. Hell, I don't wish to depart myself. I like being right here. So, hear, this isn’t how this was purported to go, however I'm simply going to maintain it actual with you want I at all times do."

Born in Los Angeles, Lewis graduated from Howard College in 1995. She was then employed to host BET's Teen Summit, the place she coated points essential to youngsters and interviewed the likes of first girl Hillary Clinton,

"That have received me seen at MTV," she told Teen People, "and in August of 1997, I moved to New York and began working there."

By 1999, the New York Instances deemed her "the hip-hop era's reigning it Lady" in a profile.

Lewis left MTV in 2001 to host her personal speak present, The Ananda Lewis Present, which aired for one season.

She appeared on the fact sequence Movie star Mole: Yucatán in 2004, alongside celebrities together with Keshia Knight Pulliam, Dennis Rodman, and Stephen Baldwin.
After that, she hosted exhibits together with Leisure Tonight spin-off The Insider, A&E's America's Prime Canine, and TLC's Whereas You Have been Out.

The TV star additionally continued to chronicle her bout with most cancers. She lamented having declined a physician's advice to have a double mastectomy after receiving her analysis, she mentioned in a CNN round-table dialogue about breast most cancers in October. She mentioned then that the most cancers was at stage IV.

In a January essay for Essence concerning the significance of prevention, she shared her philosophy on the top of life.

"We're not meant to remain right here perpetually. We come to this life, have experiences — after which we go," she mentioned. "Being actual about that with your self adjustments the way you select to stay. I don't wish to spend yet another minute than I’ve to struggling unnecessarily. That, for me, is just not the standard of life I'm all for. When it's time for me to go, I need to have the ability to look again on my life and say, I did that precisely how I needed to. All of us have that proper. I do know I've achieved the fitting factor for me. It won’t be the fitting factor for anyone else, however it doesn't must be."

Following her dying, MTV's official Instagram account shared an announcement: "We're saddened to be taught of the passing of beloved MTV VJ, Ananda Lewis. By means of her on-air internet hosting and interviews, Ananda helped elevate a era of music followers. Our ideas are together with her household & family members."

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