Controversy continues to swirl around Brooks Ayers’ claim that he has cancer. Ayers, who is Real Housewives of Orange County star Vicki Gunvalson‘s ex-boyfriend, has maintained he has

received treatment for cancer at City of Hope, a cancer hospital in Duarte, California. However, a hospital spokesperson tells PEOPLE that City of Hope “has not provided any cancer treatment

to anyone by the name of David Brooks Ayers.” E! was the first to report the news. Last week, Ayers sat down for an interview with E! in which he presented medical documents with “City of

Hope” printed across the top as proof of his cancer treatment at the facility. E! followed up with an investigation of the documents that highlights alleged inaccuracies and inconsistencies.

_RHOC_ reunion. For his part, Ayers told E! he spoke to Gunvalson following the reunion and insisted she believed he had cancer. Ayers also maintained that he had never told Gunvalson he was

dying: “I never told her that, absolutely not.”