Lady Pretended to Be Late Twin to Keep away from Inflicting Grandma ‘Heartbreak’

An influencer who spent 5 years pretending to be her late twin sister when calling her grandparents has revealed her household lastly advised the matriarch the reality on her “deathbed.”

Again in December 2022, TikTok star Annie Niu went viral with a video explaining that after her twin sister died, she and her family members determined towards telling her grandparents. This meant Niu must name them each vacation and fake to be her late sister, who died of meningitis.

5 years glided by earlier than the household lastly determined to interrupt the information to her aged grandmother.

“You lastly advised your loved ones that your twin sister handed away 5 years in the past they usually took down each single picture that had her in it (which is just about each picture in the home),” Niu captioned a clip posted on Dec. 13.

Whereas some followers did not perceive what Niu meant — or could not have been maintaining along with her viral story — the influencer continued to element what occurred in a follow-up publish.

“I did not inform my grandparents and my prolonged household that my sister handed away,” she mentioned. “It was my dad’s resolution. This previous July, my grandma handed away and on her deathbed, my dad advised her that my sister handed away and that she’s ready for her on the opposite aspect.”

“I believe it is as a result of he did not wish to withhold this data however he additionally did not wish to trigger them any heartbreak. And, God forbid, they’re 92, one thing occurs.”

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Regardless of her father breaking the information to her grandmother, Niu’s grandfather nonetheless does not know and her aunts in the end determined to “take down each single picture” in his home that contained her late sister.

“So think about my shock once I take my children to go go to my grandpa and I look on the partitions and none of our images are there,” she mentioned.

Many commenters had additional questions concerning the household’s resolution to cover the sister’s dying from her grandparents, with one writing, “Didn’t they ask the place she was for 5 years? I’m so sorry and so confused.”

Again in 2022, Niu advised her followers that shielding the aged from “horrible information” was “actually frequent in Asian tradition,” and that “you may’t assure” they would not die when being advised the unhappy information.

“My grandparents mainly raised me and my sister so we had been very near them and we’re in all probability going to simply constantly make up excuses for why she is not visiting them,” she mentioned. “… I dream about her virtually each single night time so I deal with it as I am spending half of my life along with her nonetheless, as a result of I see her each night time.”