A prominent Seattle cancer advocate and fundraiser has been accused of lying about her breast cancer diagnoses while she raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Susan G. Komen for the Cure, KOMO News reported.
Tracy Dart, who has raised more than $400,000 over the past decade for the Komen Foundation, is under fire for reportedly lying about her three cancer spells.
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A Washington state car dealer who helped Dart raise thousands to fight the disease said a member of Dart’s “Team Tracy” contacted him to reveal that Dart had never been ill.
“She doesn’t have cancer — she never had cancer,” the representative said, according to Auburn Volkswagen owner Matthew Welch.
Welch said he wasn’t angry about the representative’s accusation, telling KOMO, “I would say [Dart] needs help and I hope she gets it.”
Dart’s family recently contacted the Komen Foundation with similar concerns, KOMO reported. The foundation confirmed to KING-5 News that Dart fundraised for them, but added that Dart herself never received money in return.
“Team Tracy” has since been disbanded and several of its social media pages have been removed.
“The real victim is the real [cancer] survivors out there who are really going through the treatment,” Welch told KING-5.