Who Is Rosanna Pansino? US YouTuber Smokes Her 'Dead Dad’s Ashes'

Rosanna Pansino – an American social media star with more than 14.6 million followers - shared on her podcast 'Rodiculous' how she smoked the ashes of her late father to fulfil his last wish. The YouTuber titled the opening episode notoriously, 'Smoking My Dead Dad'. “The blunt we smoked was delicious – it tasted so good,” Pansino, whose real name is Rosanna Reardon, declared after taking several hits of the joint, the first of which prompted a lengthy fit of coughing.

"It tasted good," she claims

Pansino’s father, Michael Reardon, who appeared in many of her baking videos as Papa Pizza, died in December 2019 after a long battle with leukaemia. Her sister Molly and mother, Jeanne, joined her on camera to toast his memory with the remnants of a bottle of whiskey he brewed.

“Before he passed, he told me and my mom what he would like us to do with his ashes, and at first my mom was a little bit hesitant,” Pansino said.

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“She thought: ‘This is kind of hippie – people are going to judge us.’ But as time’s gone on, we just really think that it is the right time to do what Dad wanted and to honour him the way he wanted.”

“Losing dad, just because he was one of my best friends, it was just different,” Pansino said. “I thought over time the sadness would fade, but grief is always with me – it feels like it’s permanently attached to me.”

“I think I’m just like my dad,” she said. “He was a social butterfly – I think that definitely rubbed off on me.

Netizens React

The YouTuber’s move left many shocked and surprised; some social media users stopped her from smoking her father's ashes. Pansino said she reached out to a licensed marijuana grower in California. When his Cannabis plant was finally harvested, her family and friends helped her roll the dried plant into joints wrapped in pink paper.

Some users, on the other hand, applauded her fresh take. "I honestly think I’m gonna love this new era of 'Ro'. You’re showing your true self and not caring about the idolization of being someone you’re not." a user commented. 

Who Is Rosanna Pansino?

Rosanna Pansino rose to fame in the early 2010s for her gaming, baking, and cooking videos. However, she further came into the spotlight when she allegedly fellow YouTuber Mr Beast to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation for his "disturbing telegram chats” and also criticised his food products as “disgusting." Pasino