What happened to YouTuber Baz? LaurDIY announced the death of her ex-boyfriend in an emotional video. Find out what happened. Plus, his profession main points.
While the content on Lauren Riihimaki aka LaurDIY's YouTube channel most often features ingenious venture concepts and light-natured vlogs, the Craftopia host announced a tragedy in a video that she posted on May 31.
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Lauren published that her ex-boyfriend, Sebastian "Baz" Morris, died on May 27. The two had dated for 5 years, and Baz used to be a staple on her channel in her early vlogging years.
What happened to YouTuber Baz? Lauren discussed the circumstances surrounding his passing, and the affect he had on her life.
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What happened to YouTuber Baz? LaurDIY shares how he died.
Lauren started her YouTube channel in 2012 to show off her creativity, and her life as a then-college freshman at Ryerson University. After her platform began to building up in reputation, Lauren determined to chronicle her personal lifestyles in a sequence of vlogs, including her relationship with Baz.
Baz and Lauren started dating in 2010 once they were still in high school. Lauren featured Q&A movies and checks about how well they knew one some other on her channel.
Though they in the long run broke up, Lauren stated in her May 31 vlog "Rest in Peace" that she and Baz stayed buddies.
"We parted ways in 2015 after almost five years together when we just realized that we weren't on the same path," she mentioned. "Baz was the goofiest, kindest, most positive, brightest soul that I have ever met. Someone who didn't have a lot, but wouldn't hesitate to give anything, everything that he owned if it would help someone else."
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Lauren then defined that Baz suffered with epilepsy, however that he never let it affect the actions that he sought after to do. She mentioned that Baz was an adrenaline junkie.
"Even though Baz had really severe epilepsy, he would not hesitate to throw himself off of a skateboard ramp or a snowboard ramp or out of a plane with a parachute on his back or off of a bungee jumping bridge," she endured within the video.
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"We spent the last year of our relationship just as basically best friends. I have no regrets," she stated. "I was so focused on my career... and he needed to do all of the dangerous s--t that would give me near heart attacks when he would do it when we were together."
Lauren said that she and Baz reconnected after his dad passed on to the great beyond in a motorbike accident in 2018.
They would test in with one every other each and every few weeks. Lauren then published how she learned that Baz had drowned after having a seizure.
"Late on the night of May 27, he was up at his cottage, which is his favorite place in the entire, entire world. He was doing a typical Baz midnight swim, and had a seizure and drowned," she explained in her video. "I am devastated."
Lauren explained that Baz never let his struggle with epilepsy outline him, and that he all the time lived his lifestyles to the fullest.
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LaurDIY is taking a spoil from YouTube.
Understandably, Lauren defined that Baz's death is making her imagine what is truly important in her existence. She explained towards the tip of her "Rest in Peace" video that she is going to take a while offline in order to procedure his passing, and to mourn.
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"He can rest now. No more seizures. No more medications. No more brain trials. And most importantly, he'll be reunited with his hero: his dad," she concluded in her video. "I need some time offline. Nothing like this has ever happened to me and I don't know how to process it. I know that Baz wouldn't want me to miss a single day of life."
Lauren didn't say when she would return to her channel, but that the proceeds from her video would move towards a long term memorial service for Baz.
You can watch Lauren's tribute to Baz beneath.
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