22-Year-Old TikTok Star Leah Smith Passes Away from Bone Cancer
The online community is remembering an inspirational influencer.
Leah Smith, a 22-year-old based in Liverpool, England, who documented her battle with stage four bone cancer Ewing’s Sarcoma, passed away on March 11 at around 11:30 local time, as shared by a loved one on her TikTok account.
“This is a message to anyone that’s followed Leah, or gave her any support or any nice comments or just watched in general,” expressed her boyfriend Andrew Moore in a TikTok video on March 11. “I’m sad to say that she passed away today at around half eleven this morning. I just want to say thank you to everyone. All of your comments did help—she did actually read them.”
Andrew, who started dating Leah in 2021, urged “everyone” to talk about his girlfriend following her passing.
“How amazing she is and how much she helped everyone,” he continued. “We’ll never let Leah be forgotten.”
Before her passing, Leah had amassed a TikTok following of over 500,000 and garnered millions of views on her videos. A statement on Leah’s account mentions that her profile will continue to be used to “remember Leah at her good times.”