Ananda Lewis has died. The previous MTV VJ who went on to be a chat present host handed away at her Los Angeles house this morning of stage 4 breast most cancers. She was 52.
The information was shared by her sister Lakshmi, who advised TMZ that Ananda had been enduring the battle with most cancers for six years. “She’s free, and in His heavenly arms,” she wrote on Fb. “Lord, relaxation her soul 🙏🏽”
Ananda Lewis was born in San Diego in 1973. She graduated from Howard College in 1995 and landed a job because the host of BET’s Teen Summit. Later, at MTV, Lewis hosted exhibits like Whole Request Reside and Sizzling Zone. She gained a number of NAACP Picture Awards, together with one for internet hosting the 2001 particular True Life: I Am Driving Whereas Black. Additionally in 2001, she left the community to start out her personal speak present, The Ananda Lewis Present. It was canceled after one season, partially as a result of its pilot episode aired the day earlier than the 9/11 assaults.
She went on to host exhibits like Surprising, Whereas You Had been Out, America’s Subsequent Producer, and Excessive Faculty Reunion. From 2004 to 2005, she labored as a correspondent for The Insider.
In 2020, Lewis revealed her stage III breast most cancers prognosis, saying she had not been getting common mammograms because of her worry of radiation. She printed an article in Essence in January about her expertise with the illness.
