The MTV community is mourning a tragic loss.
Ananda Lewis, a former VJ on MTV shows like Total Request Live and Hot Zone, has died, according to her sister Lakshmi Emory. She was 52.
“She’s free, and in His heavenly arms,” Emory wrote in a June 11 Facebook post. “Lord, rest her soul.”
A cause of death has not been disclosed.
Prior to her passing, Lewis had been battling breast cancer, which she first revealed in a 2020 Instagram post after being diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer.
Four years later, the former TV host shared that she had opted to not have a double mastectomy and had instead decided to “keep my tumor and try to work it out of my body a different way.”
“My plan at first was to get out excessive toxins in my body,” Lewis said in an October 2024 interview on CNN. “I felt like my body is intelligent, I know that to be true. Our bodies are brilliantly made.”