Wet MTV wet and Live the total request Host Joy luis Died at the age of 52 After seven years of fighting with breast cancer in June 2025.

Sister of pleasure, Lakshmi LewisThe sad news through this FacebookWrote, "He is free and in his heavenly arm."

Anand went public in his third breast cancer fight in 2021 and acknowledged that he had been avoiding regular mammograms for years for fear of radiation. He wrote a strong essay Essence In January 2021, he urged the fans to "do everything in their (their) power" to become their story.

He wrote, "If I knew what I knew 10 years ago now I would probably haven't finished here," he wrote. "I used to be cool drowning, practicing consistently, my vitamin D layers were good, making detoxing my body on a monthly and annual basis and sleeping better. I was now doing all the work that I have to do now to make my body more cancer and remove what has already made my body."

Anand leaves the ex -partner behind Harry Smith And their son, LangstonThe

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Harry Smith

Anand was attached to the Oscar winner Will Smith Through his relationship with his younger brother Harry. Harry and his twin sister, EllenWas born in 1971.

Although Harry lives a lot of personal life from the spotlight, it has its own production company Smith Global Media, which has released the Christmas movie of 20 2016. Believe And the animated musical The genome aloneThe

Harry and Anand never publicly discussed their relationship, but they shared a son named Langston.

Langston Smith

Joy Gave birth to her only childLangston, 20. He described himself as "Stay-A-House Mother Fulltime" because he surrounded his son.

When he confirmed his cancer diagnosis in 2021, Anand about the possibility of growing up with his son was almost broken.

"I have a 9 -year -old here I need to be here," he asked to tear the followers of Instagram. "I have no desire to leave him."

During the next interview Hollywood unlocked In 2020, Anand looked back at Langston's primary response to diagnose her breast cancer.

"He was very much in contact with his body in his body from a very young age," he explained. "When I told him (about my diagnosis), I think I was very clear. I remember, 'I have a tumor on my breast.' He said 'What is a tumor?' And I said, 'It is one of the cells that will not die out of my body.'

Anand continued, "Langston heard me. He knew that I was going to start fasting, fasting.

Former MTV was wet that his son was 7 years old even realized his diagnosis was quickly realized because he was "always a very smart baby."

"He took his little hand and he put it in my chest. He sent me heal," he kept in mind. "He literally closed his eyes and did his little work that I taught him to do it on me. It was such a moment. It was really great and beautiful to me that he was not just afraid."

Langston later participated in social media videos with his mother, including A vlog Where he clearly explained how his treatment schedule influenced his son's daily life.

"I have been consuming with my health and for four years. I am still fighting cancer," he said in 2022. "I have a lot of time and strengths and resources to go to it."

He also said, "I know that Langston has suffered in some ways in terms of my time and availability. This is all important."

By 2021, Anand breast cancer proceeded on the fourth stage, though he would not go through double mastctomy and multiple round chemotherapy. She says ABC News Because of his responsibility as a mother to stay, she made a difficult decision to predict the doctor-rickhanded treatment.

"I cannot conduct this national strict surgery in my life then," he said. "I was in my house Mom (and) my son's homesculing. Cancer doesn't come and not replacing all the other things your life is cancer at the top of your life. It was very overwhelming at the beginning."

The joy finally did "fraction chemotherapy" - which he said that the general dose was "10 to 20 percent" - and he observed his physicians while treating alternatives.

"The fourth breast cancer is no longer a death penalty," she said.BC NewsThe "Women live very well and there are some women who do everything they were to do and finish the fourth phase anyway. So, if I was supposed to end here, I was about to end here …… every day I got, I am grateful."

Anand died at the age of 52 in June 2025.