Beauty blogger told she has only days to live after waking up with headache

A YouTube beauty blogger has been told she has only days or weeks to live after tests found her headache to be an aggressive cancer.

Samantha Jaelle, 49, from the UK woke up last Tuesday with a splitting headache and, after taking some paracetamol and getting no relief at all, took herself to the emergency room where at CT scan revealed an aggressive brain tumour.

By Friday, Samantha was told it was terminal and sent home to spend her final days or weeks with her family.

In a video posted on September 14 to the social media platform, Samantha told her 15k subscribers that she wished to spend her final days in a campervan travelling around the beachside with her family and friends – and asked for their help funding this.

In the teary video, she asked her followers to not give a large amount, but only a couple of pounds if they could and apologised for even having to ask. Her husband was there off camera helping her to speak, as the tumour has impaired her ability to formulate some words and thoughts.

Today, Samantha's husband updated her followers on the crowdfunding page with a picture of the motorhome they had booked with $13,000 raised, and said they were ready to take off on Friday.

"Samantha and myself would like to thank each and every one of you who is supporting our campaign for our final road trip," David wrote.

"You have exceeded our expectations and we are overwhelmed by every ones kindness and supportive comments. "Our Road Trip will start on Friday 20th September and there will be many surprises along the way."

Samantha began her YouTube channel in February, 2015, to help bridge the gap in the beauty industry, feeling as though older women were often forgotten in the industry.