Bhad Bhabie has revealed she is being treated for cancer, after receiving comments about her weight loss.
The rapper, whose legal name is Danielle Bregoli, responded to being body-shamed and critiqued for her “empty” facial expression by sounding off on her Instagram Story on Thursday.
“I’m sorry my cancer medicine made me lose weight. I’m slowly gaining it back,” she wrote. “So stop running with the worst narratives.”
The rumour-mongering continued despite her statement, as the gossip blogger Perez Hilton weighed in with his opinion.
“I’m going to say it – there is also a possibility that she might have pulled a Lil Tay,” Hilton said on Instagram, referring to last year’s death hoax surrounding another young internet persona. “I wouldn’t put it past her to do something like this for attention.”
That prompted Bregoli’s mother, Barbara, to respond angrily.
“How dare you?” she said in a video posted to Instagram. “And I pray to God one of your children never get cancer. How dare you say my daughter’s faking this?”
Bregoli didn’t provide any further details about her condition, but citing her family, TMZ reported that she was indeed being treated by a doctor for cancer.
She found fame in 2016 by telling Dr Phil’s TV studio audience, “Cash me outside, how ’bout that?”
