Reality television personality Amber Eggers died Thursday, September 3, 2026, of acute liver failure at a hospital in Atlanta. She was 41. Her prison engagement played out on camera during the 2019 season of the WE TV series “Love After Lockup.”
Monica Eggers, her mother, confirmed the death, saying her daughter had felt unwell and returned to the hospital days before. “Doctors couldn’t keep Amber’s heart beating any longer, and she ultimately died from acute liver failure,” she told TMZ.
She had entered the Atlanta hospital on Tuesday, September 1, and spent two days there with liver failure before she died. Friends also shared word of her death on social media.
A Year of Health Battles
Illness had dogged Eggers for more than a year. Her health started to fail in 2025, and that May her sister, Erin Eggers, launched a GoFundMe page to help the family with mounting medical bills after Amber was hospitalized with a severe case of pneumonia and bacteria in her bloodstream. Her condition turned critical, her sister wrote at the time; doctors put her on a ventilator and eventually placed her on an ECMO machine.
“Many of you know Amber is one of the kindest and most big-hearted people you could ever meet,” her sister wrote in the fundraising appeal. Amber would need every bit of that strength for the fight in front of her, she added, and the cost of her care was straining the family.
Better news came later that month. Amber had moved out of intensive care and was on oxygen, her sister wrote — her lungs still sick but improving day by day — and she had begun physical therapy to rebuild the strength in her legs so she could walk again.
The 2025 emergency ran deeper than that first pneumonia diagnosis indicated. Her infection reportedly progressed into sepsis and multiple-organ failure, which left Eggers on life support. She pulled through, went home and picked her life back up in Georgia, managing Sidelines Grille in the city of Canton.
Eggers disclosed the next setback herself. In a Facebook post dated August 5, 2026, roughly a month before her death, she wrote: “I just had that mini stroke and my bday. What better time th[an] the present.”
Her Path to Reality TV
“Love After Lockup” picks couples up at the moment they finally meet face to face, after years of letters, phone calls and visiting-room dates with an incarcerated partner, then tracks whether the relationship can hold together once both people are on the outside.
Eggers was serving a four-year sentence for drug trafficking when she joined the franchise for Season 2, which aired in 2019. Vincent Gonzalez, her partner, proposed to her on camera during the season, but the engagement did not survive her release from prison, and the couple split.
She stayed on viewers’ screens all the same. Starting around 2021, Eggers and her former cellmate, Michelle “Puppy” Deaton, turned up in cameo appearances across later seasons of the show and on the spinoff “Life After Lockup.” Their bond moved to the center of the story, and Deaton said on the series that Eggers loved her during a stretch when she could not love herself, and that she did not think she would have gotten through her incarceration without Eggers.
Tributes
WE tv and “Love After Lockup” issued a joint statement, shared on Instagram on September 4: “We are deeply saddened by the passing of Amber Eggers, an original and unforgettable member of the Love After Lockup family. She was a bright light, who shared her life story with courage and authenticity, and we are honored to have been a part of her journey over several years.”
The Instagram tribute that announced the death said there was no good way to deliver news like it, and that her medical team had done everything it could before her body gave out. It called Eggers a fighter who had already survived so much and thanked her for being herself. Fans had shared laughs with her, fretted over her and rooted for her through every trial she met, the post said, and they would miss her.