Popular presenter and reporter for
Mediaset TV show Le Iene Nadia Toffa has died after a long
battle against cancer, the programme said via social media on
Tuesday.
Toffa was 40.
She was a brave and determined investigative reporter who
often put her own safety on the line as she delivered big
stories for Le Iene on fraud against the national health
service, slot-machine scams, children's rights, the illegal
dumping of trash in Campania and the impact on people's health
of pollution from the ILVA steel plant in Taranto.
Indeed, the Puglia city gave her honorary citizenship.
She was promoted to being one of the Le Iene's presenters in
2016.
She was equally courageous in battling her disease after she
was diagnosed with cancer in 2017 and she wrote a book about the
fight.
In the book she wrote that she tried to see cancer as "a
gift, an opportunity" - comments that led her to coming under
heavy fire from online haters.
"You fought with your head held high, using all of your
strength, up to the end, up to today," Le Iene said on the
show's Facebook page.
"Destiny, karma, fortune, bad luck decided to hit you, our
Toffa, the toughest of all.
"While some did not believe in your fight, we stayed silent
and you smiled.
"You managed to forgive everyone... perhaps even that monster
that you fought against without stopping: cancer.
"Nothing will be like it was before for us".
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