@djmusic_70: 🙏🏾 Dr. Danielle Spencer (June 24, 1965 – August 11, 2025),” Child Star Of ‘What’s Happening!!’, passed away At 60 Danielle Spencer, the former child star best known for her role as the sharp-tongued Dee Thomas on the ABC sitcom What’s Happening!!, died August 11, according to a post on Instagram by her friend and co-star Haywood Nelson. The cause of death was not known at press time. Spencer Dr. Dee, our brilliant, loving, positive, pragmatic warrior, without fail, has finally found her release from the clutches of this world and a body. We celebrate Danielle Spencer and her contributions as we regret to inform her departure and transition from a long battle with cancer.” Spencer later experienced paralysis due to spinal stenosis and was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2014, which she overcame after chemotherapy. In 2018, she underwent emergency brain surgery for a bleeding hematoma resulting from the 1977 car accident. After What’s Happening!! ended, Spencer and her mother spent time living in Africa before she enrolled at the University of California, Davis, to pursue veterinary medicine a career path encouraged by her late stepfather. Following the cancellation of What’s Happening Now!!, she attended Tuskegee University Veterinary School in Alabama and became a veterinarian in 1996. Spencer later experienced paralysis due to spinal stenosis and was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2014, which she overcame after chemotherapy. In 2018, she underwent emergency brain surgery for a bleeding hematoma resulting from the 1977 car accident. After What’s Happening!! ended, Spencer and her mother spent time living in Africa before she enrolled at the University of California, Davis, to pursue veterinary medicine — a career path encouraged by her late stepfather. Following the cancellation of What’s Happening Now!!, she attended Tuskegee University Veterinary School in Alabama and became a veterinarian in 1996. In addition to her veterinary career, Spencer shared her story in the memoir Through the Fire: Journal of a Child Star.

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