British TikToker Leah Smith has died aged 22 following a stage 4 bone cancer battle.
Smith’s boyfriend Andrew broke the news to her 526,000 followers on Monday, sharing that she had died earlier in the morning.
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“I’m sad to say that she passed away today at around half-eleven this morning,” Andrew said in a video with more than 9.2 million views.
“I just want to say thank you to everyone. All your comments did help, she actually did read all of them.
“We’ll all miss Leah but we’ll never forget her.”
Her best friend Vikki, who was the one providing updates towards the end of Smith’s life, later shared a statement on her late friend’s TikTok.
“We are all so truly heartbroken without Leah, but as Andrew said we will never forget her,” she said.
“We’re so overwhelmed with all the love and support … if love could have saved her she would’ve lived forever and a day.”
Vicki said that the TikTok page would remain as a way to remember her best friend.
“Out of all that pain and suffering now Le, this isn’t a goodbye just a goodnight, rest peacefully in that beautiful sunflower field and I’ll see you again one day, my gorgeous best friend.”
A day earlier, Vikki provided fans a final update, writing that “Leah is on end of life now and is unable to move or talk, but she is reacting to us with noises and knows we’re there”.
Smith had Ewing sarcoma, a form of bone cancer that “begins as a growth of cells in the bones and the soft tissue around the bones” according to Mayo Clinic.
At the end of January 2024, Smith said in an update: “I’m not well again. I hate this, like being in bed for a week … I go to sleep and wake up even worse than I did feel the night before. I’m so unwell.”
On February 3 she returned to hospital, telling her audience she could not even move “to go to the toilet” because the pain was so extreme.
With the intense pain, tests were run to determine if the bone cancer had spread.
“I had an idea but when (you’re) told it still hurts so yes the cancer has spread and yes the tumours have grown,” she said on February 8.
“They have changed my pain meds finally … my doctor said just worry about the pain for now but this feels like the (beginning) of the end knowing it will likely never go.”
On February 18 she said doctors simply wanted to get her to a “comfortable state” and said there was “no point” trying antibiotics.
“Idk what this means for me if this is the end of the journey but all my family have come around and I am just going to act like I’m good and great because quite frankly I am so so scared. I don’t want to d!e yet. I’m sorry,” she said in one of the final posts she personally made.
“Am I going to die in this hospital?”
Followers of Smith’s have since reacted to the devastating news.
“This girl never deserved any of this 💛🌼💛,” one said.
“I really thought she’d pull through, this is devastating 😭,” a second added.
“I can’t believe it. I love that girl so much she’s always been there when nobody else was. She made me change my outlook on life and I will always be grateful to her. I’m so sorry I have no words 😔,” TikToker Eden said.
“This is so shocking I’ve been a fan since she first ever had it I think (not sure if she had as a child) but since she started to share it on TikTok, I remember showing my mam and I started crying,” added a longtime follower.
