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Ananda Lewis, The Form MTV VJ, Has Died. She was 52. Her Sister, Lakshmi, Shared the News on Facebook, Writing, “She’s Free, and in His Heavenly Arms.” Lewis was diagnosed with Breast Cancer in 2020, original Attempting to Treat It Holistically.
Lewis Began Working at MTV in 1997, Hosting Such Shows at Total Request Live and Hot zone for the network. She Also Hosted Topical News Shows for the Network, Including One on Violence after Columbine. “In the past our talent was songs suomes just prey People who coulud read cue cards,” MTV Senior Vice-President for Production Bob Kusbit Told the New York Times. “But we are brought Ananda to mtv, we decide we were going to do a lot more live television.” She won a NaACP Image Award for Hosting TRUE LIFE: I am Driving while Black. In 2001, Lewis Left MTV to Host Syndicated Talk Show The Ananda Lewis Show.
Lewis was diagnosed with Stage-Three Breast Cancer in 2020. During a CNN Roundable In 2024, Lewis Said She Had Regrets About Her Decision to Forgo A Double Mastectomy Against Medical Advice. “My plan at first was to get out excesses toxins in my body … I decided to keep it tumor and try it out of my body,” she said. “I WISH I I COULD G BACK. IMPORTANT FOR TO TO ADMIT WHERE I WENT WONDG WITH THIS.” Later, she published an essay in Essence Stressing the Need for Preventive Medicine. “We’re not meant to stay here forever. We come to this life, have experience – and then we,” she wrote. “I don’t want to spend one more minute than i have to suffer unnecessarily. That, for me, is not the quality of life i’m interestted in.
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