Rosanna Pansino
Influencer smokes cannabis from her father’s remains
Five years ago, YouTube star Rosanna Pansino’s father died of leukemia. Now the influencer fulfilled his last wish – to smoke it in a joint.
It is well known that influencer Rosanna Pansino and her father had a close connection. The 39-year-old became famous on YouTube with her baking show “Nerdy Nummies,” and more than 14.6 million users have now subscribed to her account. In addition to her grandmother, it was her father, Michael Reardon, who awakened her passion for baking.
Reardon also appeared regularly in her baking videos under the name “Papa Pizza”. He died of leukemia in 2019 after a long illness. But he is still present in Rosanna Pansino’s life – in perhaps disturbing ways, as the influencer explained in her new podcast. There, Pansino reported that she smokes cannabis that grew from her late father’s ashes.
YouTube star Rosanna Pansino is still mourning her father
Pansino claims that this was entirely in keeping with her father’s wishes and was even his last wish on his deathbed: “Roll me up and smoke myself.” And that’s exactly what the influencer did in the podcast episode. She then shared memories of her father along with her sister and mother.
“Before he died, he told me and my mother what to do with his ashes,” Pansino said. “My mother was a bit hesitant at first. She thought it was a hippie thing and that people would think badly of us.” But then the desire to fulfill her father’s wishes and thus honor his memory prevailed.
Pansino and her family took their concerns to a licensed marijuana grower in California. Her father’s remains were mixed with some oil and then a cannabis plant was planted in it. Smoking a resulting joint reminded Pansino of a very special moment she experienced with her father: on her 18th birthday, they smoked a cigar together.
With the unusual campaign, Pansino is gaining a lot of attention for her newly launched podcast. But for the YouTube star, the joint made from her father’s ashes is not a marketing stunt, but an important step in the mourning process. “I thought over time the sadness would go away,” she admitted in the podcast episode. “But the grief is always with me. It feels like it’s firmly attached to me.”
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