TikTok Star Maddy Baloy Passes Away at 26 After Courageous Battle With Terminal Cancer
The TikTok community has lost one of its brightest stars.
Maddy Baloy, who shared her life with terminal colon cancer, passed away on May 1, as confirmed by her fiancé. She was 26.
“Maddy passed away peacefully last night,” Louis Risher told People on May 2. “She is so special. I turned 27 yesterday, actually. I was holding her hand all day and that’s all I needed.”
He added that at the time of her passing, Maddy was “surrounded with love.”
She is also survived by her parents Carissa Talmege and Lucky Talmege, and her brother Dylan.
A teacher at Shore Acres Elementary in Florida, Maddy gained a following online through her honest documentation of her health journey, which began after her 2023 diagnosis. Feeling “so alone and isolated” after being told she had at most five years to live, Maddy chose to share her life with the world.
“I knew I had a lot to say,” she explained to People in March. “‘My mind shifted, and I was like, ‘I am going to get every ounce of life that I can out of this.'”