Why I faked having cancer: Mummy influencer, 29, makes tearful apology after sleuths discovered her conviction for fraud

A woman with more than 3 million followers on TikTok has revealed how she faked cancer.

British influencer Brittany Miller, 29, from East Sussex, shared a humble apology on her social media page on Monday after her crime was exposed online.

The content creator, who shares one-year-old identical twins Elijah and Emiliano with partner Ash Griffiths, lied about having the disease in 2017.

Three years later, in July, he was convicted of fraud by false representation and sentenced to 12 months probation. Sun. He had to pay compensation and costs to the Crown Prosecution Service.

A former friend anonymously claimed to the publication that Brittany set up a JustGiving page after telling her she had stage three stomach cancer and urged her friends to share the fundraiser online.

‘Now people follow him and have no idea what he’s really like. “Yes, it happened years ago, but lying about cancer is really wrong,” the old friend said.

‘Many of his followers have family members living with cancer but they don’t know that every time they watch one of his videos they are giving money to a scammer.’

However, Brittany, who is known for her comfort food content, including her love of jackets and fries, insisted in her apology video that a friend set up the fundraising page and ‘didn’t get a penny from it’.

‘“As soon as I saw there were donations – there were two donations – I immediately closed the page,” claimed the influencer, whose partner and children regularly feature in his content.

The mother of two children said she “deeply regrets” telling a friend “secretly” that she “had the disease” and emphasized that she did not make up this lie “with malicious intent or to defraud people.”

“I did this to keep the people in my life close to me,” Brittany claimed in the clip. ‘I don’t rule it out, I understand why I did it and I have learned from my mistakes… This was not a long-running scam.’

The tearful influencer said she suffered from ‘extremely poor mental health’ and was ‘depressed, suicidal and confused’ at the time, losing both her partner and her job.

Claiming that she told the ‘truth’ to ‘put an end to people who distort and exaggerate what actually happened’, Brittany said: ‘There were a lot of things that pushed me to become mentally ill that year.’

Former friends reportedly accused the influencer of deleting comments about her lying on her posts, but she said she now “owed it” to her followers to be open about a “very difficult time” that she “never wanted to talk about.”

‘My mental health was really bad in 2017 and I didn’t realize how bad it was but it was bad,’ he claimed.

During this time he told a friend “secretly” that he “had the disease” and said: “A stupid sentence that I deeply regret.”

The content creator, who shares one-year-old identical twins Elijah and Emiliano with partner Ash Griffiths (pictured in the apology video), lied about having the disease in 2017.

Brittany (pictured with her family), known for her comfort food content including her love of jackets and french fries, insisted in her apology video that a friend set up the fundraising page and ‘didn’t get a dime from it’.

‘I said I had cancer. I didn’t do this with malicious intent or to defraud people. ‘I did this out of desperation and to keep the people in my life close to me.’

He added that the fundraising page came about after explaining how one friend told another: ‘I grew from that.

‘I’m trying to be the best version of myself. ‘It took me a long time to understand why I did this and I forgive myself because I was mentally ill.’

He continued: ‘And I’m deeply sorry to anyone I triggered by what I said. This was years before I was on social media, I didn’t do it to get likes or followers.

‘I know how terrible this disease is… I am so very sorry. ‘I admitted what I did and apologized to the people I hurt.’

Brittany, whose lie was brought to light by old friends, said she moved from her hometown a year later when she met her partner after getting a job at a fundraising company.

He said he was now ‘in good mental shape again’ and was ‘very proud’ of where he is now compared to that ‘dark place’.

Brittany’s parenting has also been called into question in recent months; He revealed how an anonymous troll accused him of child abuse.

The mother-of-two (pictured) said she “deeply regrets” telling a friend “confidentially” that she “had the disease” and insisted she did not make up the lie “out of malice or to defraud people”.

In a video on TikTok, he claimed someone reported him to social services and was then ‘interrogated about everything’.

‘The phone call was terminated without any further action, obviously they immediately hung up on them all,’ he said.

The influencer added: ‘People are my downfall and are so desperate to bring me down, but putting my kids through this is ridiculous; Why do you want to do this to them, innocent babies?

‘Do what you want to me, but to them, innocent children, obviously very happy and healthy babies, this is crazy, you’re a real weirdo, you’re a real loser.’

He continued: ‘Never in a million years did I think I would experience something like this.

‘Honestly, I’m the center of attention, every video gets millions of views, I get it, there are bad people out there, I get that… I just think, how cruel can you really be? It’s so cruel.’

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