*Former MTV VJ Ananda Lewis revealed in a 2020 Instagram post that she’s been battling breast cancer. At the time, the ex host of BET’s Teen Summit and The Ananda Lewis Show admitted regret over never having mammograms due to a fear of radiation exposure.
In a recent update, Lewis, 51, shared that her cancer has metastasized, and is now stage IV.
“My plan at first was to get out excessive toxins in my body. I felt like my body is intelligent, I know that to be true. Our bodies are brilliantly made,” Lewis explained with CNN’s Stephanie Elam and CNN anchor Sara Sidner during a round-table discussion about cancer. Sidner was diagnosed with Stage III breast cancer early this year and underwent a double mastectomy, per PEOPLE.
Following her diagnosis, Lewis went against her doctors’ recommendation for a double mastectomy.
“I decided to keep my tumor and try to work it out of my body a different way,” she shared. “Looking back on that, I go, ‘You know what? Maybe I should have,’” she explained.
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“My lymph system really flared up,” Lewis said. “It was the first time I ever had a conversation with death because I felt like: This is how it is.
“I was just like, ‘Fudge man, I really thought I had this.’ 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 gonna make it fun for you.’ “
“I literally had that conversation laying in my bed. I couldn’t get out of bed for, like, eight weeks,” she said.
Meanwhile, Sidner underwent a double mastectomy in May and said that her cancer diagnosis made her realize “I want to be here…I want to thrive in a way I have never felt before.”
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