Overview

• The Bachelorette alum, 34, told Instagram viewers on Sept. 26 that she is alive and described the hoax as “triggering” and leaving her feeling helpless.
• She posted screenshots of a Facebook item falsely claiming “Thurston has officially taken her last breath.”
• Thurston asked followers and any Meta employees for help reporting and removing the posts, calling Facebook “constant clickbait.”
• On Sept. 27 she shifted to humor, sharing a halo‑filter clip and a tongue‑in‑cheek casket ad to mock the rumor.
• She remains in treatment for stage IV breast cancer and plans a double mastectomy in November if upcoming scans are clear, after reporting that small liver spots appear to have disappeared.