90 Day: The Other Way’s Mary and Brandan.Photo:TLC
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NOTE: This post has been updated since its first publication to reflect ongoing questions regarding the couple’s announcement.
90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way’sBrandan Denucciõand his wifeMaryare under scrutiny after announcing she had colon cancer and he issued a plea to help raise funds to “save her life.”
Brandan, whowed Mary last year, posted on Instagram over the weekend aboutfundraising pagehe’d created to help him pay for surgery to “remove [Mary’s] colon cancer.”
On the page, Mary wrote that she had been “diagnosed with colon cancer” on Friday after experiencing symptoms on and off since high school, which she thought was “normal.”
Many soon doubted the validity of Mary’s condition both on the site and on social media. On Monday, a day after the post was created, the fundraising campaign was halted with the reason listed as: “GoGetFunding has been requested or required to stop this campaign.”
PEOPLE has reached out to TLC for comment.
Brandan announces Mary’s colon cancer diagnosis on Instagram.Brandan De Nuccio/Instagram
Brandan De Nuccio/Instagram
Prior to the halting of their campaign, Mary admitted to being “scared of the surgery after my C-section" to havedaughter Midnightin August, but she claimed her doctor told her the cancer needs to “be removed before it’s too late.”
Mary also said she doesn’t have “financial support” to fund the procedure as she’s the “only one working in the family.”
“Please don’t judge me [sic] I don’t want to die,” she wrote. “I want to spend my whole life with my daughter.”
Mary and Brandan from ‘90 Day Fiance: The Other Way’ season 5.Scott A. Woodward/Getty/TLC
Scott A. Woodward/Getty/TLC
Mary previously said her daughter “is worth everything and I’ve never been this happy in my whole life,” as she recalled getting “teary-eyed” after Midnight was born toEntertainment Tonight.
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Mary also explained why she decided to have sex before marriage in spite of her family’s conservative beliefs. “Brandon is here now in person, and I really love him and I feel ready to give my all to him," she said. “You know, we’re humans.”
Brandan said he was immediately confident about fatherhood when they decided to start trying. That said, he did admit in a confessional interview that his perspective had shifted a bit since Mary actually became pregnant.
source: people.com
