ON YOUTUBE At the age of 41, Billy LeBlanc’s girlfriend passed away after getting a virus from eating raw oysters.
After having seafood for dinner, both LeBlanc and his girlfriend Natalie Clark got a virus called Vibrio vulnificus.
It was very close to death for LeBlanc, who spent several days in the ICU with his girlfriend.
The two were in the hospital for twelve days, eight of those days in the intensive care unit (ICU) fighting for their lives. When LeBlanc woke up, his girlfriend had already died, the YouTuber wrote on Instagram.
“We ate oysters and were both sick for a few days. The next morning I woke up and she was gone,” LeBlanc wrote in a post.
In a different post that showed them traveling together, the content creator talked about the good times they had together.
“I’ll never forget how we got lost together everywhere.” I’ll love and miss her forever.
“Be safe and hold your loved ones tight, you never know when it’ll be the last time you see them.”
A touching post on Facebook was made by LeBlanc’s mother to honor her son’s late girlfriend.
Natalie died, and Billy was very close to dying for eight days in the ICU. “Please keep praying for Billy’s health and his heart, as well as for Natalie’s son Julian and her family,” she wrote.
About 80,000 cases of Vibrio vulnificus are caught every year from eating raw seafood, according to the CDC.
People who get the virus can pass away one to two days after getting sick.
Clark has a son named Julian who is 17 years old.
She posted a picture of herself and her son on Mother’s Day in early May and wrote, “Thank you, son, for the best date ever! “You’re the best thing that ever happened to me.”
The star lost his 13-year-old son Caleb nine years ago, and now his girlfriend has died in a tragic accident.
Caleb was one of Leblanc’s three kids with Katie, his ex-wife.
In 2015, the influencer’s son died suddenly of a heart attack.
Katie’s family has a history of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, so Caleb had regular health checks. However, the teenager wasn’t responding and was later pronounced dead at the hospital.
The first videos LeBlanc put on YouTube were of his ex-wife and their three kids, Annie, Hayley, and Caleb.
After Caleb died, the couple stopped making content for a while. In 2019, they went back to the platform.
The return was short, though, because they got a divorce later that same year.
When LeBlanc started his own channel, he continued to post videos about his life. In 2020, he started including Clark in his videos.