{"id":9240,"date":"2025-06-11T23:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T23:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/2025\/06\/11\/former-mtv-vj-ananda-lewis-dead-after-breast-cancer-battle\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T23:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T23:20:11","slug":"former-mtv-vj-ananda-lewis-dead-after-breast-cancer-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/2025\/06\/11\/former-mtv-vj-ananda-lewis-dead-after-breast-cancer-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Former MTV VJ Ananda Lewis Dead After Breast Cancer Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Ananda Lewis<\/strong>, a popular host from the MTV “veejay” era in the late ’90s … died on Wednesday after a lengthy breast cancer battle.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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The news was broken by her sister Lakshmi <\/strong>on Facebook, who celebrated the end of Ananda’s suffering in an emotional post.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Lakshmi tells TMZ Hip Hop … Ananda died from stage 4 breast cancer at 11:35 AM on Wednesday while in hospice at her Los Angeles home.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Lakshmi tell us she braved the diagnosis for 6 years and even tried out some conventional\/some unconventional treatments … choosing her own path.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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We’re told her family has heard from a lot of celebs already who want to speak on how Ananda influenced their careers and handled her interviews so well with them at her memorial, which will be in a few weeks.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Lakshmi tells us Ananda’s 14-year-old son graduated middle school today … a terribly bittersweet day.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n


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In October 2024, Ananda revealed in an interview that her breast cancer had escalated to Stage 4, after she previously declined to get a mastectomy for treatment.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Ananda hosted red-hot MTV programs such as “TRL” and “Spring Break” before going on to host her self-titled syndicated talk show on daytime television.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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She continued to be a news correspondent for various broadcast networks and became a spokesperson for the Humane Society.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Ananda was 52.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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RIP<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Ananda Lewis Former MTV VJ Dead At 52 Published June 11, 2025 3:37 PM PDT Ananda Lewis, a popular host from the MTV “veejay” era in the late ’90s … died on Wednesday after a lengthy breast cancer battle. The news was broken by her sister Lakshmi on Facebook, who celebrated the end of Ananda’s […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"reaction":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9240"},{"taxonomy":"reaction","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reaction?post=9240"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=9240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}