Lil Tay denies \u201clife-threatening\u201d heart tumor is PR stunt after infamous death hoax Instagram: liltayInternet star Lil Tay underwent heart surgery after her social media accounts claimed she had a \u201clife-threatening\u201d heart tumor \u2013 and they\u2019re hitting out at rumors saying the ordeal is just a PR stunt. 17-year-old Lil Tay sent viewers into a frenzy after her social media accounts claimed to have \u201cdevastating news\u201d about the social media star in September. Subsequent updates claimed that the influencer had a \u201clife-threatening\u201d heart tumor, showing imagery from an ultrasound and photos from the inside of a hospital. On September 14, her Instagram account shared a video of Tay in a hospital bed after supposedly undergoing open heart surgery. Although they claimed the operation was a \u201csuccess,\u201d netizens remained skeptical about the news due to the infamous \u2018death hoax\u2019 that occurred back in 2023. However, Tay\u2019s accounts are hitting back at this narrative, as told in a tweet published on September 16. \u201cThe accusations that Tay\u2019s health crisis is for publicity are false and disgusting,\u201d the post reads. \u201cIf publicity or money were our goal, she would not have gone MIA for over a year. Instead, she would have posted everyday to her millions of fans, and done PR runs like every other celebrity and dropped music every month. \u201cTay\u2019s health has always been our priority, not popularity or money. The false Death Hoax, started by her misogynistic father to ruin her reputation, is now being projected onto her. This is blatant victim blaming and rooted in misogyny. Tay deserves support, not harmful accusations.\u201d This news follows a previous statement posted on September 14, which also hit back at \u201cmisinformation\u201d and distanced both Tay and her mother from her \u201cmisogynistic father, Christopher John Hope.\u201d In 2023, Tay\u2019s social media accounts were hacked with claims that both she and her brother had died. These rumors were later proven to be false, and Tay claimed that her estranged father was behind the entire thing. Shortly afterward, Tay debuted her new music career, leading some netizens to think the hoax was merely a publicity stunt to get herself back in the limelight. Tay\u2019s accounts continue to maintain that her father was responsible for the 2023 hacking and deny that her current health issues are in any way related to a supposed PR stunt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lil Tay denies \u201clife-threatening\u201d heart tumor is PR stunt after infamous death hoax Instagram: liltayInternet star Lil Tay underwent heart surgery after her social media accounts claimed she had a \u201clife-threatening\u201d heart tumor \u2013 and they\u2019re hitting out at rumors saying the ordeal is just a PR stunt. 17-year-old Lil Tay sent viewers into a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}