Lil Tay, who was reported lifeless on Wednesday (Aug. 9), remains to be alive.
The 14-year-old rapper and viral web persona shared in a press release to TMZ on Thursday (Aug. 10) that her Instagram account was hacked. On the time of publication, the assertion asserting her dying has been deleted. “I need to make it clear that my brother and I are secure and alive, however I’m fully heartbroken, and struggling to even discover the best phrases to say,” she instructed the publication. “It’s been a really traumatizing 24 hours. All day yesterday, I used to be bombarded with countless heartbreaking and tearful cellphone calls from family members all whereas making an attempt to kind out this mess.”
She continued, “My Instagram account was compromised by a third get together and used to unfold jarring misinformation and rumors concerning me, to the purpose that even my identify was unsuitable. My authorized identify is Tay Tian, not ‘Claire Hope.’”
The information of her faux dying was introduced in a press release posted on Lil Tay’s Instagram account, which described her passing as “sudden and tragic” in addition to “completely surprising. “It’s with a heavy coronary heart that we share the devastating information of our beloved Claire’s sudden and tragic passing,” reads the assertion posted Wednesday (Aug. 9). “We’ve got no phrases to specific the insufferable loss and indescribable ache. This final result was completely surprising, and has left us all in shock.”
The assertion additionally revealed that her brother died too. “Her brother’s passing provides an much more unimaginable depth to our grief,” it learn. “Throughout this time of immense sorrow, we kindly ask for privateness as we grieve this overwhelming loss, because the circumstances surrounding Claire and her brother’s passing are nonetheless beneath investigation.”
The self-labeled “youngest flexer of the century,” Lil Tay shot to fame in 2017 with controversial viral movies exhibiting off wealth and cussing out haters.
