TikTok influencer Brittany Miller — who has tens of millions of followers — is issuing an apology for mendacity about having most cancers.
The British social media star, 29, shared a prolonged TikTok video on Monday, November 10, explaining that she informed individuals on-line she had most cancers again in 2017 whereas going by means of a psychological well being disaster.
The influencer’s video comes after British newspaper The Solar revealed a report on November 4 detailing how Miller’s “small on-line neighborhood have been left shocked when she claimed to have been identified with stage 3 gastric most cancers” in 2017 when she was 21.
“So I by no means wished to speak about this time in my life as a result of it was a really troublesome time for me, however I owe it to my followers and folks that help me to inform you my fact,” Miller started Monday’s video. “I additionally wish to put a cease to the individuals which might be twisting and exaggerating what really occurred. So, I’m simply going to go from the start.”
Miller defined, “So, again in 2017 I had extraordinarily unhealthy psychological well being and on the time I didn’t understand how unhealthy, nevertheless it was unhealthy. I used to be depressed, I used to be suicidal, I used to be misplaced, I used to be confused. I misplaced my accomplice, I misplaced my job, and there was a number of issues in that 12 months that led me to be mentally in poor health.”
“I stated one thing to somebody inside my quick circle, in confidence — one silly sentence that I deeply remorse,” she continued. “I stated I had an sickness, which was most cancers. I didn’t do that for malicious intent or to rip-off individuals. I did this out of desperation. To maintain the individuals in my life near me.”
“I don’t condone it. I perceive why I did it, and I’ve realized from my errors,” Miller stated. “This was not a long-running rip-off, or a manipulative story, prefer it’s been made out to be.”
Miller has greater than 3.5 million followers on TikTok, the place she shares updates on her life, together with elevating her 16-month-old an identical twin sons, Elijah and Emiliano, and her purchasing hauls. Her TikTok profile has obtained over 225 million “likes.”
In accordance with Miller, on the time she made the false claims, her buddies created a fundraising web page on her behalf, however she had the web page shut down “as quickly as I noticed there was donations,” noting there have been solely two donations on the time she noticed the web page and had it eliminated.
“I didn’t take a penny from it. I’ve grown from this. I’m engaged on being the perfect model of myself,” she stated.
“It took me a very long time to grasp why I did it and I forgive myself as a result of I used to be mentally in poor health, and I’m so deeply sorry to anybody that I’ve upset or triggered from saying what I stated,” she continued.
Miller denied that she lied about having most cancers “for likes or followers,” including, “I understand how horrible this illness is and I understand how a lot it impacts individuals. So, for that, I’m so, so sorry. I admitted what I did and I stated sorry to the folks that I harm.”
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After experiencing her psychological well being disaster, Miller stated she “moved away from my hometown as a result of I wished to work on myself,” and credited her accomplice and father of her sons, Ash Griffiths, with serving to her overcome her psychological well being struggles.
“I wished to encompass myself with folks that have been gonna assist me and I acquired a job with a fundraising firm and that’s how I met Ash,” she wrote. “Him and his household helped me a lot, and I’ll perpetually be grateful. He was my mild on the finish of the tunnel. He helped me be effectively once more. He helped me forgive myself, and though I’m so, so emotional once I speak about this, I’m mentally effectively once more, and I’m so happy with the place I’ve come, for being in that darkish place to now, and I’m right here as a result of I wish to be an advocate of a psychological well being.”
She continued, “I wish to assist individuals as a result of I do know what it’s wish to be in a darkish, darkish place and I wish to assist individuals and I additionally simply wish to say an enormous, large thanks to all of the individuals on the market that help me and nonetheless comply with me. While you didn’t know my fact, you continue to believed in me.”
Miller concluded her video by saying, “If I might return and alter what I did, I might do it in a heartbeat. It was one silly sentence that I stated virtually a decade in the past, and I’ve realized a lot from it.”
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