Apology made after false cancer claim
Oxford-based content creator issues apology after a post made in 2017 resurfaces
29-year-old Brittany Miller, from Oxfordshire, has been forced to apologise, after admitting she had previously lied about being diagnosed with cancer.
A video posted on Monday 10th November, showed her admitting this and how she said “something to someone within my immediate circle in confidence”.
The post was highly emotional and she mentioned how she “didn’t do this with malicious intent or to scam people” and that she “did this out of desperation”, to “keep the people” in her life “close to her”.
The mother-of-two said she had “extremely bad mental health”, when the incident occurred in 2017. After material surfaced and went viral on the app, she faced criticism. It showed that Ms Miller had a fundraising page claiming diagnosis with gastric cancer.
Miller admitted to lying and said it came from “one stupid sentence that I deeply regret”. She linked the actions to mental health struggles that were ongoing at the time.
She amassed a large following on TikTok, with over three-and-a-half million people engaging with her content. It consists of lifestyle and food content.