While he was still battling cancer during the show, the teen mainly kept his health news private before telling the judges: “When I was diagnosed, Chopped was the only thing that got me up and cooking.
“If I was just laying down doing nothing, my feet and legs would hurt, but when I was moving around in the kitchen, I wouldn’t be hurting as much.”
He ended up winning the show with his delicious beer-battered catfish with okra and landed a $10,000 prize, which he donated to the Division of Haematology and Paediatric Oncology at Birmingham Children’s Hospital.
RIP.
source: express.co.uk