Pineapple Lewis, a former hostess of MTV VJ and hostess Talk Show, died at the age of 52 years after a long battle with breast cancer. Lewis’s nurse, Lakshmi, announced devastating messages in a short post on Facebook shared on Wednesday 11 June.
“She is free and in his heavenly arms,” she wrote beside the black and white photograph of Lewis. “Lord, rest her soul.”
Kevin Powell in the X post poured from industry as an American writer, activist and filmmaker, said: “Pineapple Lewis, my sister, friend, colleague MTV graduates, rest. You were brilliant and beautiful in all respects.
In the sincere honor of MTV, she said in the X post: “We are sad when we learned of the transition of the beloved MTV VJ, Ananda Lewis. Through her hosting and interviews, the pineapple helped to educate a generation of music fans.
History of cancer pineapple Lewis
Her diagnosis of cancer first became public in 2020, when she revealed that she was treated for breast cancer III through a post on social media on Instagram. The fear of radiation has discouraged her from getting regular mammograms, as revealed in the instagram post until 2020.
“In January 2019 I found a breast specialist and went to biopsy. The doctor called me another day and told me that the material returned as positive for invasive carcinoma. It was ER/PR positive, negative breast cancer, phase 3,” the television host quoted in January this year.
Ananda Lewis took part in a round table with CNN Stephanie Elam (her friend from CNN of College) and CNN Anchor Sara Sidner in October last year. During this discussion, she revealed that after the diagnosis of cancer, she refused medical advice and refused to have a double mastectomy, people said. This led to the cancer to Stage IV after its tumor metastasis.
Pineapple Lewis career
The breakthrough in the career of the pineapple Lewis came in 1997, when she was hired to be one of VJ MTV and host several performances like Total Request Live and Hot Zone. To organize her own talk show – Ananda Lewis Show, MTV left in 2001. New York Times described her “hip -hop generation ruling girl”.
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