Woman Pretended to Be Late Twin to Avoid Causing Grandma ‘Heartbreak’

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

Back 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 in opposition to telling her grandparents. This meant Niu must name them each vacation and faux to be her late sister, who died of meningitis.

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

“You lastly instructed your loved ones that your twin sister handed away 5 years in the past and so they 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.

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

“I did not inform my grandparents and my prolonged household that my sister handed away,” she mentioned. “It was my dad’s determination. This previous July, my grandma handed away and on her deathbed, my dad instructed 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 info however he additionally did not wish to trigger them any heartbreak. And, God forbid, they’re 92, one thing occurs.”

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Despite 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 after I take my children to go go to my grandpa and I look on the partitions and none of our photographs are there,” she mentioned.

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

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

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