Mackenzie McKee’s mother, Angie Douthit, passed away on Monday, December 9, after battling brain cancer for multiple years.
“On Monday, December 9 at 11:37pm, Angie finished her race,” read a post from Angie’s Instagram page on Tuesday, December 10. “Her last days were spent lovingly surrounded by family and friends as they prayed, sang, and shared funny Angie stories.”
“In nearly two years, she never missed her daily post…tomorrow she will. But this is where you pick up the baton and run like she did mighty warrior,” continued the post. “You can choose this day to be like Angie and use your social media engagements to make a difference rather than disaster, to spread love and not hate, and to always be kind. We know many people around the world read these posts so drop your city and country name in the comments so we can see where you are!”
The Teen Mom OG star first spoke about her mother’s cancer diagnosis in January 2018. She posted to Twitter that doctors found three tumors on her brain and numerous blood clots.
Weeks following the news, McKee named her mother, “the healthiest person I know,” pointing out that she eats organic, doesn’t smoke or drink. “She runs marathons and works out two to three times a day. This does not run in our family,” she told Us Weekly then.
“I am so sad. I can barely breathe. I can not lose her. She did ask that I blog her whole journey and make a documentary in case something does happen we will always have that. I know God will use her to speak to others.”
Unfortunately, Douthit’s cancer spread over the last year. During the Teen Mom OG reunion on September 2, Douthit opened up about the specifics of her condition. “I’m unique from what my doctors tell me,” she told the show’s host, Dr. Drew. “I have non-small cell carcinoma in my lungs, which is lung cancer. Stage 4. I also have small cell carcinoma in my lungs, and that doesn’t happen. No one gets both kinds of lung cancer. A nonsmoker, a marathon runner, it’s just blowing everyone’s mind.”
She added: “I have 10 tumors in my brain. I have a tumor the size of an orange in my right lung that was wrapped around my windpipe. There are so many tiny tumors in my lungs, I stopped counting on 40 on this side and just gave up on that side. It’s in my bones, it’s in my liver, it’s all over.”
In August, McKee’s mother had to stop chemotherapy due to low blood counts.
“Her spirits are amazing, but we know that it’s incurable and she will never get better. It’s [about] how long can we keep it here without it getting worse, if that makes sense,” McKee revealed to Us Weekly in July. “Sometimes, she’s just such a hard-headed person that sometimes I wonder, ‘Is she just smiling without knowing she’s in pain?’ She would never dare tell us she’s in pain or not feeling good. That’s just who she is.”
Fans saw more of Angie’s cancer battle when Teen Mom 3’s Mackenzie Mckee was added as an additional star of the most recent of Teen Mom OG following the exit of Bristol Palin.