10 Black Celebrities That Have Come Forward About Their Struggles With Breast Cancer - Page 7

7. Ananda Lewis

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Ananda Lewis, former video journalist for MTV and BET host has been open about her Stage 3 breast cancer diagnosis since 2020. Initially, doctors recommended for her to get a double mastectomy, but Lewis wanted to take a holistic approach by getting the “excessive toxins” out of her body to get her tumor out. She did things like changing her diet, homeopathic therapies and took traditional medicine, which helped for a while. But she later learned the cancer had grown to Stage 4.

“My lymph system really flared,” she said in a CNN interview, “and it was the first time I ever had a conversation with death because I felt like this is how it ends.” Lewis continued, “I was frustrated, I was a little angry at myself and I said man ‘Listen I know you’re coming for me at some point. But I don’t want it to be now and if you could just wait I promise when you do come I’m going to make it fun for you.”