Blogger Lercek reported the exacerbation of cancer and new metastases

Blogger Valeria Chekalina (Lerchek) said that according to the results of positron emission tomography, she found metastases that began to grow again in various organs. According to her, they were found in the adrenal glands and ovaries, they also returned to the lungs.

She said this in a video posted by Chekalina’s fiancé Luis Skvichciarini on Instagram (the social network belongs to Meta, which is recognized as an extremist organization and banned in Russia). Lercek herself is banned from social media.

"The cancer has intensified," Skvicciarini wrote.

Now, he says, Lercek is preparing for the second line of chemotherapy.

Doctors also advised her to consider treatment in China with a CAR-T vaccine. To travel abroad, Chekalina must obtain a court permit.

“We hope that it will be possible to obtain permission to fly out at the court,” Skvichciarini said.

On October 21, the state prosecution asked the Moscow City Court to reject the appeals of the former spouse of blogger Valeria Chekalina Artem Chekalin, sentenced to seven years in prison for illegal monetary transactions worth more than 250 million rubles. At the trial, Chekalin said that the mother of his children “practically does not get out of bed”, he did not rule out that “in the near future will become the sole guardian” of the three children.

In February, Chekalina gave birth to her fourth child, the next day after discharge she was hospitalized in oncological resuscitation. Lercek has been undergoing treatment since then.

Due to the health of the blogger, the trial started in 2025, she was repeatedly suspended, at the end of July she received five years of probation in the case of the withdrawal abroad of more than 251.5 million rubles.

Previously, the spouses were also in cases of tax evasion and money laundering, but they were terminated after repayment of debt to the Federal Tax Service.