After losing her twin sister to viral meningitis, influencer Annie Niu decided to reveal the truth after five years of pretending to be her deceased sister.
Influencer Annie Niu, who had been pretending to be her deceased twin sister, decided to tell the truth to her family five years after her sister passed away from viral meningitis.
Annie explained to her more than 220,000 followers why she had been pretending to be her sister. The video has received over 6 million views.
“I didn’t tell my grandparents and the more distant part of my family that my sister had died. It was my father’s decision to tell them only now in July, on my grandmother’s deathbed, that my sister had died and was ‘waiting on the other side,'” she said while crying.
Annie mentioned that it was a difficult decision because her grandparents were elderly, and the news could have had serious health consequences for them.
In the video, she explains that the decision to hide the truth from her grandparents was due to their old age, especially because of the health risks it could have caused, as they lived far away.
On important dates, Annie would call them and pretend to be her twin sister, always making up excuses for not visiting them.
Despite receiving some criticism, many followers commented that they had also had to conceal the death of a loved one to protect their grandparents’ health.
“I’m African, and I do this with my grandmother. She still doesn’t know that my mother passed away, and it’s been 7 years; we just tell her that she’s at work,” one of them shared.
@annie_niuI counted 17 photos last time♬ original sound – Annie Niu
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