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Diem Passes Away After Long Battle With Cancer

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She gave it one hell of a fight.

MTV reality star Diem Brown, who rose to fame on the “Real World/Road Rules Challenge,” succumbed to her illnesses earlier today.

Diem was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2005 and triumphantly competed on “Real World/Road Rules Challenge,” a year later debuting her shaved head in an episode that rocked us to the core.

After a long remission period, the cancer returned in 2012. She went into a short remission in 2013. Brown was filming her eighth challenge competition in Panama when she collapsed on set. She was airlifted to a NY hospital, where doctors found that the cancer had returned with a vengeance. It had been found in her stomach and colon and spread to her liver and lymph nodes.

“That was a shocker to me,” she said at the time. “I was blown away. It really crushed a little bit of my spirit.”

Diem’s on-again, off-again boyfriend Chris “C.T.” Tamburello rushed to be by her side after her diagnosis.

She passed away this morning in a New York hospital.

Watch this incredibly touching video of her embracing her bald head after undergoing chemotherapy. RIP Diem.

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