A heartbroken brother has revealed that his twin sister succumbed to a treatable cancer after their anti-vaxxer mother influenced her to reject vital chemotherapy.
Gabriel Shemirani shared the tragic story of his sister, Paloma, who attempted to heal her non-Hodgkin lymphoma with a coffee-based remedy endorsed by Belle Gibson, a notorious proponent of pseudoscience who falsely claimed to have battled cancer herself.
Tragically, the alternative treatments were ineffective, and the 23-year-old graduate of the University of Cambridge passed away after her tumors caused her to choke.
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"That's the most difficult part, because you're trying to do everything in your brain to think it's not real, it's not true," Gabriel told The Sun.
"And every time you utter the words to someone else, that 'Paloma is dead' it feels like you're being burned alive."
Gabriel places the blame squarely on their mother, Kate Shemirani, a former nurse with the National Health Service, for the loss of his sister.
Kate, 59, was stripped of her nursing credentials in May 2021 after she declared COVID-19 to be a hoax.
She notoriously labeled the NHS as "the new Auschwitz" in her online posts, where she frequently expressed her opposition to chemotherapy. On her personal website, she styled herself as a "natural nurse."
Now 24, Gabriel advocates for legal reforms to protect individuals from dangerous health misinformation.
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"I couldn't save my sister, but there's still time to save others," he implored in his interview with the publication. "People are dying. This needs to stop."
He criticized the system as "out of date" for allowing his mother, a woman "that's killed her daughter," to still be recognized as a nurse.
"I believe my sister was being coerced. It's conspiratorial coercion when you convince her the elites are going to kill them, big pharma's going to kill them, even the doctors at the hospital are going to kill them," he asserted.
Kate Shemirani, who has faced bans from Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok, saw her presence on X restored after Elon Musk's takeover.
She has rejected any culpability, instead pointing the finger at the paramedics who attempted to save her daughter's life.
Gabriel continues to grieve for his sister a year following her passing.
"With a twin, they've always been there by your side," he reflected. "There's so much that doesn't need to be said because you already understand it - it's almost like you have your own language. We were incredibly close - at no point did we ever fall out."
Family Trauma
The twins endured a challenging upbringing. Their father, Faramarz, was a proponent of conspiracy theories, including the belief that 9/11 was an inside job.
Gabriel recounted how his mother discouraged him from using sunscreen at age nine and later prohibited the children from consuming tap water.
During an inquest in Maidstone, Kent, last week, Gabriel testified that his mother had been "emotionally distant" and physically abusive during their childhood.
Kate was also diagnosed with cancer in 2012 and survived after having a double mastectomy, but says she survived after following alternative treatments, including the controversial Gerson therapy, which involves taking coffee enemas.
Belle Gibson promoted Gerson as a "cure" before it was revealed that she didn't actually have terminal brain cancer; however, Kate Shemirani fashioned herself as a health guru like Gibson.
"I think she saw her way to get that attention she'd always craved," said Gabriel.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Gabriel was the last sibling at the family home, but moved out to avoid being quarantined with his mother.
But when Paloma was diagnosed with cancer in December 2023, she chose to live back at home with their mother.
Fearing that his sister wouldn't accept cancer treatment while living with their mom, Gabriel chose to visit her on Christmas Day.
"I wasn't able to have any meaningful conversation with my sister because she was out of it," he said. "That was the last time I saw Paloma."
The brother was barred from visiting his sister and instead sent her messages begging her to try chemotherapy.
"For four or five months, I was living in constant fear that I was going to get that phone call from someone saying my sister had died."
Paloma's health was rapidly declining, and she eventually collapsed at her mother's home on July 19, 2024. She was airlifted to the Royal Sussex County Hospital, where she "had declined to engage with conventional treatment," according to Osteopath Nick Gosset.
Five days later, Paloma's life-support machine was turned off, but Gabriel didn't learn of his sister's death until six days later. Neither he nor his brother Sebastian were informed about the funeral.
"She was cremated without our knowledge," Gabriel revealed.
Now, he wants no contact with his mother, describing their relationship as "complete strangers. I don't talk to her - I have no feelings for her."
