In the spring 2017, she was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer and had been quoted survival rates as low as 3 percent. On December 21, 2017, after months of painful radiation and chemotherapy treatments, it was found out that all signs of her cancer, which had spread throughout her chest and back, had disappeared. The radiation had made it almost impossible for Ami to eat anything, and she had gotten down to a life-threatening 77 lbs but later she gain weight back.