‘So You Think You Can Dance’ season 2 alum Donyelle Jones dies after almost decade-long cancer battle

The “So You Suppose You Can Dance” neighborhood is grieving one other loss. On Tuesday (Dec. 2), Donyelle Jones, the fact dance competitors’s season two finalist, died after a protracted battle with breast most cancers.

Her household introduced the information on her Instagram account, “At the moment at 8:34 am, Donyelle Denise Wilson transitioned.” 

“A spouse. A daughter. A sister. A buddy. And a warrior who kicked most cancers’s ass each single day she was right here,” they continued. “Her spirit by no means dimmed. Her coronary heart by no means hardened. And even within the storm, she by no means misplaced her smile.” 

The dancer’s dying comes virtually ten years after she was recognized with stage 3C breast most cancers in 2016. Since her analysis, Donyelle overtly documented her journey on social media. Although her most cancers progressed to stage 4 metastatic breast most cancers, in July, she celebrated educating her first dance class in 4 years. 

“DANCE IS MY SAFE PLACE. I wanted this second.I want my neighborhood. Dance is the car I’ve used most to assist me dwell out my function, pursue my goals, heal my ache and have a good time my victories. My bday reward to myself. It’s been 4 years since I final taught. GOD, I’VE MISSED THIS!!!,” she wrote on the time. “Most cancers has robbed me of a lot and I Iet the grief of shedding what I had in dance or the way it related to my life take over the opportunity of the way it can present up in my life proper now. I’m studying at each twist and switch of this journey referred to as life easy methods to navigate every season as they arrive.” 

Simply six days earlier than her passing, the hip-hop and jazz dancer shares an emotional remaining message to her followers: “It has come to the purpose the place I’ve began to get my affairs so as. Most of you guys know, at this level, I’m in hospice. I’ve achieved every part potential to increase my time on this dimension, and at this level, I’ve surrendered to no matter God’s will could also be. And if God’s will is that he heals my liver, which isn’t functioning and never making me capable of eat, and I get that miraculous therapeutic, and I’m audacious sufficient to consider that he can do it — however I’m additionally cognizant sufficient to know that I’ve obtained 10 years of miracles.”

“What else can I probably ask for, however for his discernment on when it’s his time for me to have my time on this facet come to an finish?” she concluded. 

Among the many many followers grieving the lack of the “So You Suppose You Can Dance” season 2 third-place winner, is actress Yvette Nicole Brown, who penned a tribute to Doneyelle on Instagram: “My expensive buddy has gone on to be with the Lord. @donyelledenise8 was… no, IS the most effective of us. One among one. We love you, Donnie! Thanks for exhibiting us easy methods to dwell and struggle and love and DANCE! We’ll see you on the opposite facet. I would be the one dancing in direction of you. Me and my two left ft!” 

Donyelle’s passing comes months after the sudden passing of “So You Suppose You Can Dance” winner Joshua Allen after a deadly prepare accident. He was 36 years previous.