Lizzy Musi has died at 33.
The motive force and actuality TV star, finest identified for “Road Outlaws: No Prep Kings,” handed away after a battle with breast most cancers.
Her father, Pat Musi, introduced her demise in a publish shared through Fb on Thursday.
“Surrounded by her Household, within the consolation of her own residence, Lizzy was referred to as to heaven at 11:25pm tonight,” the publish learn.
“Thanks for all of the prayers and assist all through her battle.”
Lizzy Musi was a driver and the director of Musi Racing. Lizzy Musi/Instagram
Lizzy Musi was a automobile racer and actuality TV star. Lizzy Musi/Instagram
Musi, who grew up in North Carolina, rose to fame on the Discovery Channel collection “Road Outlaws: No Prep Kings,” a derivative of 2018’s “Road Outlaws,” a docu-series about drag racers competing on tough terrain.
She starred on the present along with her father Pat, an eight-time PDRA Professional Road World Champion, in response to his web site.
Along with being a driver, she was additionally the director of Musi Racing in Mooresville, North Carolina.
Musi revealed her most cancers analysis in an April 2023 Instagram publish.
“Hey Everybody, I haven’t been capable of have a lot time to publish as a consequence of an sudden life change. A couple of days in the past I’ve been Identified with Triple Unfavourable Stage 4 Breast Most cancers that has moved to my lymph nodes to my liver,” she wrote, including, “I’ve a tough journey forward of me. I admire everybody’s messages and calls. 💗”
Lizzy Musi shared selfies after shaving her head throughout her most cancers battle. Lizzy Musi/Instagram
In June 2023, she confirmed off “the brand new me” after shaving her head.
“By no means thought in 1,000,000 years I’d publish an image like this. I need to share each uncooked second with you guys by means of my journey,” Lizzy captioned the picture. “2 nights in the past I needed to shave my head as a consequence of excessive hair loss,” including that her ex-fiance, Kye Kelly, helped her shave her head.
“Some days are robust to look within the mirror,” she wrote.
After successful the 2023 “Road Outlaws: No Prep Kings” invitational at Tulsa Raceway Park in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Musi informed Drag Illustrated in August, “I swear I haven’t been this glad in my complete life. I simply really feel like I can do my job as a driver, and it simply got here so naturally. It felt so good to have the ability to be myself once more and race.”
She added, “I can’t even start to elucidate every little thing I’ve been going by means of and coping with this most cancers analysis – lots of people had their doubts about me. I’m very grateful and blessed that I can preserve doing what I’m doing.”
“I nonetheless have the hearth in me,” Lizzy Musi stated in a 2023 interview. Lizzy Musi/Instagram
She famous that her well being struggles didn’t put her down, saying: “I nonetheless have the hearth in me.”
“I’ve such an enormous assist system that retains me going. My household has been so supportive. It’s unbelievable, and I’m so grateful for that.”
Musi continued, “I’ll sit in remedy rooms, getting this chemo carried out, and right here I’m a few days later in a race automobile, and now we gained this race – it looks like the most important accomplishment ever. We struggled a lot, so I really feel like going by means of all these struggles makes a win a lot extra worthwhile. Me and my dad bought emotional on the prime finish, however we each know that we went by means of hell and again to get to the place we’re at. I look as much as him a lot.”
“However there are days the place I really feel stronger than ever.”
Her father wrote in his Fb publish about her demise, “Presently, the household wish to have time to course of, grief [sic] and make preparations in peace. We are going to give an replace as quickly as now we have data to share.”