Former Bachelorette Katie Thurston has responded to online speculation about her mortality amid her ongoing breast cancer battle. "I literally wanted to take time away from social media, but then I was getting, like, texts from people I don't normally hear from," Thurston, 34, said in an emotional Instagram Story video posted on Friday, September 26. "Then, I got DMs from people, and everyone's like, 'Are you OK?'" She continued, "I've seen this article go around before, but something about tonight really f***ing pisses me off. It's, like, triggering, and I try to report it.