Correspondent Stephanie Elam joined Sara Sidner on air on Thursday, June 12, to discuss their conversations with Lewis, which included her decision to opt for a holistic approach to cancer treatment. “One thing I want everyone to know is that she was at peace with this decision,” Elam, 51, said about Lewis. “She had come to grips with it.”

CNN correspondent Stephanie Elam joined her friend and fellow CNN correspondent Sara Sidner on air on Thursday (June 12) to discuss their late friend Ananda Lewis, the former MTV VJ who died on Wednesday (June 11).

"Ananda could sit down and have a dope ass intelligent conversation with you where she could rock out, from Obama to Lil' Kim to whatever."

Ananda Lewis was one of MTV’s best personalities in the late 1990s. After pursuing her own hosting career in the 2000s, she became an advocate for women’s health when she was