Ananda Lewis Was ‘Black Barbara Walters,’ Says Fellow MTV VJ Invoice Bellamy

Ananda Lewis left her mark on the leisure world in her brief time on Earth … a feat Invoice Bellamy says he is lucky to have witnessed in individual!!!

TMZ Hip Hop caught up with the tenured comic on Thursday, simply as the fact of Ananda’s dying after a prolonged breast most cancers battle had set in.

Ananda handed away yesterday and Invoice says he all the time referred to Ananda as his “little sister,” however licensed she had a giant aura.

He even notes how they began as rivals … Invoice was a rockstar MTV host on the identical time Ananda’s profession skyrocketed at BET because the host of “Teen Summit.”

As soon as Ananda joined MTV within the late ’90s, Invoice says they had been an unstoppable pressure concerning the community’s African-American protection, interviewing the blossoming careers of the likes of Snoop Dogg, Jay-Z and even politicians — Invoice says Ananda was just like the “Black Barbara Walters” when it got here to the interviews!!!

Invoice tells us they nonetheless saved tabs on each other and he discovered of Ananda’s most cancers prognosis a number of years in the past … however he was beneath the impression that she’d beat it.