In October 2013 Joanne shared a video alerting her fans that she had been diagnosed with cancer. She shared that she'd been suffering very painful headaches and upon going to the emergency room to figure out what was going on, she found out that the cancer spread to her brain. She kept fans up-to-date on her cancer treatments on her Facebook page. She died on Saturday, October 18, 2014 at 5:45 a.m. She was age 32.