A special guest who appeared on the “Ellen” as a child has died at 19 following a battle with cancer, according to Entertainment Weekly .

Ellen DeGeneres shared an emotional tribute to Tayt Andersen, who appeared on her talk show multiple times as a child in an Instagram video posted Friday. A visibly moved DeGeneres remembered the young man who had captured her heart.

“We had a very special guest on the show several times, and his name is Tayt,” she said. “He thought that I was his girlfriend, so I told him that he was my boyfriend, which shocked my wife. But he was a very special little human being, and just brought joy and life and laughter into every room that he was in. And I will miss him.”

Born with a congenital heart condition, Andersen first caught DeGeneres’ attention as a

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