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Very sad news from the social media world this weekend:
Tiktok’s popular figure, Anna Grace Phelan, passed away on May 23rd… about a year after being diagnosed with brain cancer.
She was only 19 years old.
“It is a great sadness to announce that our beautiful daughter, Anna Grace Phelan, has returned home with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,” the family wrote in their post on Saturday.
“Many of you have continued her journey through a difficult battle with cancer and witnessed testimony of her powerful faith.”
This message continued as follows:
“Thank you for the countless prayers for healing and peace. May we all rejoice in the assurance that she is in heaven now, so she has been healed.
Phelan was candid about his cancer journey along with over 139,000 followers in Tiktok.
In August 2024, she shared that she “begin to experience numbness” on the left side of her face and the right side of her legs.
“We scheduled an appointment for an MRI of my brain, and the scan showed a lesion in my brain,” the teenager said at the time via Tiktok.
Phelan explained that her symptoms were “beginning to get worse” and said, “I’ve started losing my balance. I’ve started having vision problems in my left eye. I’m still here on my face and feet.
A few weeks later, Phelan told the public that she had been diagnosed with a grade 4 malignant brain tumor.
“This is definitely the most difficult news I’ve ever received,” she said in Tiktok at the time.
“This is not easy. I just trust in the Lord and try to keep moving forward. I appreciate all the prayers, comments and texts. I’m really grateful. It’s very difficult for my family right now.
In a subsequent video, Phelan gave her followers insight into radiation therapy and opened up about her worsening symptoms, including breathing problems and dizziness.
“Put me in your prayers,” Phelan said in a footage of Tiktok on May 14th. “thank you very much.”
In their heartbreaking statement, we concluded the star’s loved ones:
“God blesses her beautiful soul. John 3:16 God loved the world so much that he gave him one of him and one son.
The influencer’s family is scheduled to honor her at a funeral in Georgia on May 29th.
Instead of flowers, Phelan’s obituary asks mourners to make a memorial gift to the Pediatric Brian Tumor Foundation at http://curethekids.org/.
