U.K. influencer Brittany Miller admits she lied about having cancer

'I said something to someone within my immediate circle, in confidence, one stupid sentence that I deeply regret,' Brittany Miller told her 3.5 million TikTok followers.

A British influencer has apologized for lying to her friends about having cancer years ago, and said she was in a “dark place” at the time.

Brittany Miller, 29, admitted to the lie in a video posted to TikTok on Monday, one week after U.K. tabloid the Sun published an article claiming to “reveal” the “dark truth” behind Miller claiming she had Stage 3 gastric cancer in 2017 with a fundraising page set up for her.

A person close to Miller told the publication that many of her followers “will have family members living with cancer, but little do they know that every time they watch one of her videos, they are giving money to a fraud.”

Now, Miller has broken her silence about her past in her apology video, which has more than 10 million views as of Wednesday.

“Back in 2017, I had extremely bad mental health and at the time, I didn’t realize how bad, but it was bad,” Miller said to her 3.5 million TikTok followers.

“I was depressed, I was suicidal, I was lost, I was confused, I’d lost my partner, I’d lost my job, and there was lots of things in that year that led me to be mentally ill.”

“I said something to someone within my immediate circle, in confidence, one stupid sentence that I deeply regret,” Miller continued. “I said I had an illness, which was cancer.”

The mom of two said she “didn’t do this for malicious intent, or to scam people.”