{"id":102942,"date":"2025-11-12T04:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=102942"},"modified":"2025-11-12T04:15:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T04:15:00","slug":"tiktok-creator-so-sorry-over-cancer-diagnosis-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=102942","title":{"rendered":"TikTok creator \u2018so sorry\u2019 over cancer diagnosis lie"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A TikTok influencer has been forced to apologise after admitting that she had previously lied about being diagnosed with cancer.<\/p>\n

Brittany Miller, who is originally from Oxfordshire, is known for posting food and lifestyle content to her three-and-a-half-million followers on the platform.<\/p>\n

But the 29-year-old recently came under fire on the app, after material seeming to show a fundraising page claiming she had been diagnosed with gastric cancer went viral.<\/p>\n

In a video posted on social media on Monday, Ms Miller admitted to lying about the diagnosis and said it came from \u201cone stupid sentence that I deeply regret\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said something to someone within my immediate circle in confidence. I said I had an illness, which was cancer,\u201d she said in the emotional post.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t do this with malicious intent or to scam people, I did this out of desperation, I did it to keep the people in my life close to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mother-of-two said the incident had taken place in 2017, when she had \u201cextremely bad mental health\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the time I didn\u2019t realise how bad, but it was bad,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was depressed, I was suicidal, I was lost, I was confused \u2013 I lost my partner, I lost my job and there were lots of things in that year that led me to be mentally ill.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms Miller stressed the fabrication had not been a \u201clong running scam or a manipulative story like it\u2019s been made out to be\u201d.<\/p>\n

She said the fundraising page in question had been set up in her name by a friend.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs soon as I saw there were donations, I had the page immediately shut down, and I didn\u2019t take a penny from it,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve grown from this; I am working on being the best version of myself.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know how horrible this disease is, and I know how much it affects people, so for that I am so, so sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since the incident in 2017, Ms Miller\u2019s online content of parenting, home cooking and online shopping hauls has generated a large social media following.<\/p>\n

Thames Valley Police said it could not confirm widespread reports that Ms Miller had been convicted of fraud by false representation in July 2020, but the force did add that an investigation into the incident had ended.<\/p>\n

The BBC has contacted Ms Miller, but she has yet to respond.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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