Her brother told TMZ she complained of feeling uncomfortable and looked like she wasn't feeling well at the event. Latonya's family came to see her at her home the morning of her death when she complained of having trouble breathing. After she went forward with attending the event, a nurse called her brother and told her she had called an ambulance to bring her to the hospital because she was going into cardiac arrest.

"Please join us in prayer for this dear family as they complete final care arrangements for their deceased loved one," her obituary read.

Before her death, Latonya asked her online community to "pray for me" and shared that "my heart not working right and there is nothing more the doctors can do here in Louisiana please keep me lifted," per The Sun. Fans also watched Latonya struggle with her weight on My 600-Lb Life, where she struggled to lose weight to have gastric bypass surgery.