her life to Christ and began to attend church services regularly.
Reportedly, as recent as this past Saturday night, Matthews allegedly told her congregation she was ready to go “home” (up to yonder…to be with the Lord).
Before her passing, Vanity set up a crowd funding page asking from fans and whomever to help her pay for her treatments as she battled sclerosing encapsulating peritonitis-a condition stemming from kidney failure from her crack cocaine addiction that left her so badly impaired that she was on dialysis 3 times a week.
Although Matthews reportedly did receive a kidney transplant, she experienced severe abdominal pain and was suffering with the intestinal inflammatory condition.
“Boy, it is not fun suffering in this body of weak flesh… but Jesus is straightening out all my crooked places in my heart as I go through this time of pain,” the born-again Christian expressed.
Although her goal of $50k in monies had only been met by $6,659 (in the whole one year and a half-through to the 2.15.16 date of her death homegoing) she’s gone where she ultimately wanted to be and where no money is needed-leaving behind: her past, her pain, and a page which read:
My Nephrologist told me Friday afternoon that i did not have Pacreatitis” and that is good news however the bad news is they say i have “Sclerosis Encapsulating Peritonitis” I thought the first diagnosis was weird because i was never a drinker nor have i ever been drunk in my whole life, that was not my drug of choice “back in the day. I was on a 
Peritoneal type of dialysis for six years and we know that whatever we do unto our body feeding it chemically, dialysis medicines, unless it is perfectly organic can lead to much suffering in its end. I went into the emergency twice this week, boy it is not fun suffering in this body of weak flesh… but Jesus is straightening out all my crooked places in my heart as i go thru this time of pain….i won’t complain! I cried aloud begging Jesus to help me thru this pain and three nurses rushed to my door … only to tell me loudly “BE Quiet” I had been waiting in excruciating pain for at least an hour and 45 minutes begging for help!…Then they slammed my door and left me. “Blessed are those that are persecuted for righteousness sake..It was the name of Jesus that some do hate…but forgive them they know not what they do, i pray them Jesus before it is too late amen.
So pray for me now for i am believing in complete healing of this body longing to be healed made whole my heart..I have my vision, i keep it close. I repent daily my sins, my faults and my shortcomings. He has brought me out of so many fires, oh so many, 23 years alive after the doctors pronounced i would be dead way back then 1992…I lift my head up high to the sky and do thank my Jesus that He has kept me thus far and even as much as this body would love to be with Him in Heaven right this minute… for He is my true love and King over my life…even as the Apostle Paul yearned also to be with Him in the Heavenly’s ….As well David the King..we have our duty and i will serve my generation…i am happy to live and declare my testimonies with joy unspeakable believing for Him to pull me thru. I will endure until He comes for my soul. ..Tho my testimonies, some hard and some dangerously painful are all unto the glory of the Lord. i am learning continuous obedience always hoping for change to become who He is… thru all my sufferings …And my King has made my heart soft…My very first prayer on my deathbed to Jesus was” Do whatever it takes to save me, just don’t let me die…Whatever it takes, make my heart whole…He is busily working on me…If you are suffering thru something right now i lift you to Jesus ..may He preserve you and keep you unto His heavenly kingdom and may you endure thru your change in Him…He knows what it takes to break us, make us deliver us into His Holy hands amen…Make our hearts Whole amen…!nluvdenise
I wish to republish my autobiography, “BLAME IT ON VANITY. My book will help fund my ongoing bills for the 23 surgeries i have had over the many years including my continued dialysis 3 x’s a week. I have been saved in Jesus over 23 years now and entirely blessed to be alive.I know my testimony has saved so many people from Unforgivenes, Abuse and being abused, drug
addiction, hollywood and the games thereof, lusts of the flesh and especially from Suicide. For this is am raising funds for my lifes work in the ministry my book and as i said before my ongoing bills. To surmise my story.
She was formerly known as the singer song-writer and actress Vanity, lead to the group Vanity-six and mentored by the musician Prince. Nevertheless, in 1992, she was born again and raised from the dead by the power of God our Lord Jesus Christ, and He calls her by her birth name, Denise.”Prior to finding my Lord and Savior I lived in the bottomless pit of Hollywood’s deception. Lust, drugs Rock n Roll….i was living in the depths of iniquity versed with carnality and suicidal thoughts of leaving this world…
“Sinking down into deep depression I camouflaged my pain with even more makeup and a fake smile.” “My shocking testimony of 250 high blood pressure over 190, heart attack,
stroke, kidney failure, blood clots to the brain and blindness complete as well as deafness left me with only three days to live.”
“With the devil breathing down my neck, trying desperately to snatch and strangle me for hell, I repented.”
“Yes one sweet day my Jesus reached down with his long extended love and pulled my wretched body up from the darkness. Him only do I worship with a tremendous blast of fiery passion. I live, move, breath, love and have my being in Jesus The Christ. Enslaved to His truth”…I am Denise! no longer Vanity for the name means WORTHLESSNES…we are not worthless.
Niagra Falls, Ontario’s Denise Katrina Matthews:
January 4, 1959 – February 15, 2016
" I lost someone special today… Denise Matthews aka Vanity died today!" https://t.co/PEdwYsARmu
— Morris Day (@TheMorrisDay) February 16, 2016
SADDEN my FRIEND IN CHRIST gone 2day. Vanity, Denise Matthews. MISS YOU DEARLY. U ARE IN HIS ARMS NOW, NO Pain pic.twitter.com/UbCWtl8brc
— SheilaEdrummer (@SheilaEdrummer) February 16, 2016
I am really sad to hear of Vanity/ Denise Matthews’ passing. I will always treasure our time together.
RIP— Billy Idol (@BillyIdol) February 16, 2016
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