Brittany Miller: TikTok star breaks silence on falsely claiming to have cancer

Brittany Miller has 3.5m followers on TikTok, and mostly posts about shopping, food and home life. She has twin boys Elijah and Emiliano.

But eight years ago she faked a cancer diagnosis - and now she has released a confessional video, seemingly on the verge of tears, apologising for the incident. It happened in 2017 when she had “extremely bad mental health” - which is also long before she started carving a career as an influencer.

The 29-year-old, from Oxfordshire, said: “So I never wanted to talk about this time in my life as it was a very difficult time for me, but I owe it to my followers and people that support me to tell you my truth. I also want to put a stop to the people who are twisting and exaggerating what actually happened.”

She explains that, while depressed and suicidal, she told one friend she had cancer.

“I didn’t do this for malicious intent or to scam people,” she said. “I did this out of desperation. I did it to keep the people close to me.”

The friend then started a fundraiser for her, but after people started to donate Brittany says that she then ended it and did not take any money.

“I had the page immediately shut down and I didn’t take a penny from it,” she said. “I am so deeply sorry to anyone who I have upset or triggered.”

The Sun has reported that Brittany has a conviction for fraud by false representation after the incident. In July 2020, she was given a 12-month conditional discharge and was forced to pay compensation and costs to the Crown Prosecution Service.