The 8-month-old child of Ashley Cain, known from MTV's reality show "The Challenge," and girlfriend Safiyya Vorajee has died after a battle with leukemia.
The reality TV star confirmed in a lengthy Instagram post that his daughter, Azaylia Diamond, died Saturday.
"My heart is shattered," Cain captioned a photo of himself holding Azaylia's hand. "You gave my life purpose, my face a smile, filled my heart with love and my soul with pride. I can’t put into words my sadness and pain, there aren’t words to describe it. I love you with every ounce of my body and I miss you so much already."
Cain first revealed that Azaylia had been diagnosed "with a very rare and aggressive form of leukemia which has come with many complications" in October on Instagram.
"The single most upsetting, terrifying and heartbreaking experience I have ever been through," he wrote about the experience of learning about his daughter's cancer.
Over the next few months, Azaylia underwent multiple treatments including a bone marrow transplant and things seemed to be going well, but her health took a turn for the worse and in April Cain shared that Azaylia's cancer had spread to her brain, stomach, spleen, lungs, and kidneys. She was given "one or two days to live."
Cain and Vorajee were able to take Azaylia home, where they spend quality time together as a family, but days later rushed her back to the hospital, where she was given a platelet transfusion, after suffering bleeding out the nose. She once again returned home and the day before her death Cain shared photos of himself pushing Azaylia in a stroller through the neighborhood.
"I don’t know why you’ve been taken away from me and my heart aches in your absence," Cain wrote in his Instagram post on Monday. "But I promise you that your name with live on. I will carry your name across every ocean, along every road, to the top of every mountain and across the whole globe. Your name will live, your legacy will be remembered and I will seek peace in living as your vessel to continue inspiring, giving strength, spreading joy and saving lives in your name, with your spirit, as your father until we meet again."
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