Ananda Lewis had one dying want earlier than her heartbreaking passing.
Lakshmi Emory, Lewis’ sister, mentioned that the previous MTV video jockey hoped to dwell lengthy sufficient to make it to her 14-year-old son Langston’s center faculty commencement day.
“Her wish was to live to his graduation day,” Emory informed Leisure Tonight on Thursday, “and she did exactly that.”
Lewis died on Wednesday, June 11, on the age of 52. Her son, whom she had with Will Smith’s brother, Harry Smith, in 2011, graduated from center faculty later that very same day.
Though Lewis’ reason for dying has not been revealed, she handed away following a prolonged battle with breast most cancers.
Her sister introduced the devastating information in a brief Fb submit shared Wednesday afternoon.
“She’s free, and in His heavenly arms,” Emory wrote alongside a black-and-white photograph of her late sister. “Lord, rest her soul.”
“She was my stubborn little sister who shone brightly, loved fiercely and was my number one cheerleader,” Emery added in a second Fb submit shared Thursday. “Hard/headed and tender-hearted…smart as a whip…we finished each other’s sentences.”
“I had her back and she had mine,” Emory continued. “There are no words to express the depth of the devastation I feel. My life will never be the same, without her. Rest now.”
Lewis first introduced that she was recognized with Stage 3 breast most cancers in an Instagram video shared in October 2020.
Whereas Lewis revealed that she had been recognized nearly two years earlier, she additionally insisted that she had “no intention” of leaving her son, mates and different relations behind regardless of the surprising prognosis.
“I have a 9-year-old I need to be here for,” Lewis mentioned on the time. “I have no intention on leaving him. I don’t want to leave my friends, my family.”
“Hell, I don’t want to leave myself,” she added. “I like being here.”
Sadly, the previous “The Ananda Lewis Show” host later introduced that her breast most cancers had progressed to Stage 4 throughout an interview with CNN in 2024.
She additionally admitted that she opted in opposition to present process a double mastectomy regardless of her physician’s suggestion.
In January, simply months earlier than her tragic passing, Lewis opened up about her breast most cancers journey in an essay printed in Essence journal.
“I don’t want to spend one more minute than I have to suffering unnecessarily,” she wrote. “That, for me, is not the quality of life I’m interested in.”
“When it’s time for me to go,” she added, “I want to be able to look back on my life and say, ‘I did that exactly how I wanted to.’”
CNN correspondent Stephanie Elam, one among Lewis’ closest mates, visited the MTV alum simply at some point earlier than her passing.
“We thought we had weeks, and it turned out that it turned into days, and it turned out it was just a matter of hours,” Elam mentioned on Friday. “It happened very quickly how things changed.”
The journalist then shared Lewis’ final textual content message to her.
“You know my feelings on this. We all go,” Lewis reportedly wrote to her. “These bodies are on loan and must be returned. We come in love and choose to leave it with love as well.”
