Mum who ‘influenced’ daughter that died of cancer to reject chemotherapy hits out with major claims
The mum who ‘influenced’ her daughter to reject chemotherapy has hit out with major claims.
Paloma Shemirani died in July 2024 from an ‘unsurvivable brain injury’ caused by a cardiac arrest, five days after she was taken to hospital following a sudden collapse.
After the 23-year-old was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in December 2023, her brothers say she went to live with her mum, Kate Shemirani, and began having five coffee enemas a day.
The woman had been struck off as a nurse in 2021 following the spread of Covid-19 misinformation and is described as a prominent online conspiracy theorist.
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A BBC Panorama documentary earlier this year looked at Paloma’s death, as her brothers had hoped the inquest would find her death to be an ‘unlawful killing’.
And with the recent resignation from the BBC’s top boss following controversy around its Donald Trump Panorama, Kate has taken the opportunity to hit out with a fresh attack on the broadcaster and others.
“The BBC tell lies? Panorama caught telling lies? So they can do that to a president? So what do you think they will do to us minions?” she wrote on X yesterday (10 November).
“This is my reality. This is what was done to my daughter and to me, and I am no longer softening a single word.”
She went on to claim that Paloma was ‘given chemotherapy drugs without consent’, as well as other numerous accusations, before saying Panorama and other outlets allegedly 'knew this'.
"That tells you everything about who they serve," she said.
The mother went on to slam the inquest that she claimed was a ‘no-quest’ and a ‘containment and protection of the state’.
“The media ran right alongside it,” she said.
“They chose the narrative that protected the institutions. Not the truth. Not the evidence,” Kate continued. “Not the words of the young woman who lived it. Then vilified the mother who watched it.”
She concluded: “Selling their reputation to the highest bidder, performing and calling it journalism. My daughter deserved better. The public deserves better. This is what they did, how they did it. You are going have access to all of the notes and transcripts soon. I own that 999 call. The truth is there. Horrific.”
At the inquest, coroner Catherine Wood concluded that Kate and her ex-husband, Dr Faramarz Shemirani’s, influence on their daughter ‘more than minimally’ contributed to her death.
The coroner said: “It seems that if Paloma had been supported and encouraged to accept her diagnosis and considered chemotherapy with an open mind, she probably would have followed that course.” When she was diagnosed, doctors told Paloma she had an 80 per cent chance of recovery through chemotherapy.
She later added: “If approached with an open mind, Paloma would have chosen the chance to survive, and if she had undergone chemotherapy she probably would have survived.”
Paloma’s twin brother, Gabriel, told the inquest: “I blame my mother entirely for my sister’s death”, by ‘obstructing’ her from receiving treatment.
LADbible has contacted the BBC for comment.
Jess Battison