Nick Cannon Shares Why He and Alyssa Scott Didn’t Need Son to Endure Chemotherapy Before Loss of life

Nick Cannon is opening up about the months he and Alyssa Scott spent between learning of son Zen’s cancer diagnosis and his demise.

In an episode of Paramount+’s The Checkup with Dr. David Agus, the Masked Singer host, 42, opened up about how they got right here to learn that their limited one son had brain cancer.

“He used to be wholesome, vigorous, constantly smiling,” Cannon acknowledged of his toddler boy’s early days, until spherical two months outmoded, he noticed the limited one’s “inviting” respiratory patterns.

“Being a father of multiple kids, or no longer it is constantly the highest guilt on me is that I don’t catch to spend ample time with all my kids, one ‘trigger I’m consistently working and two on story of I’m neutral correct unfold skinny.”

“We [also] noticed his head used to be rather higher, [but] all my kids contain substantial heads. I was a substantial-headed toddler,” Cannon added.

Suspecting Zen will contain asthma, the oldsters took him to a doctor’s appointment where his physician used to be straight engrossing about the dimensions of the toddler’s head, which used to be the “first signal something used to be going down.”

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“They did lots of assessments. They did now not let him hunch away the hospital,” he recalled. “And so that you may possibly take into consideration you mediate you’re taking your son in to catch a checkup for — at the worst, I was thinking asthma, you know? And to seize that he gets diagnosed with brain cancer, that used to be a shock.”

He asked clinical doctors to “be upfront” with him in teach that he may possibly put collectively himself and protect Scott from what may possibly occur subsequent, noting clinical doctors “more or much less laid it out for me.”

Zen used to be diagnosed with excessive-grade glioma, a rare and aggressive develop of brain cancer. Cannon and Scott were offered with the option of chemotherapy as a course of medication.

“Once we first went to the hospital, neutral correct to decrease his head from rapid persevering with to develop, there were a pair of procedures we were focused on,” he acknowledged, explaining they frail a shunt to empty fluid from Zen’s brain.

“That, to me, made logical sense. There used to be much less pain on him and the process used to be like a flash. It used to be all about quality of lifestyles,” he well-known.

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“From that level, they fine worthy suggested me that handiest case scenario, your son may possibly are residing to a pair of or 4 years outmoded. So straight after I heard that, I belief quality of lifestyles. I needed him to contain the highest existence he’ll contain.”

When it got right here to chemo, Cannon asked if that may possibly lengthen Zen’s lifestyles or lessen his suffering, to which they suggested him, “no longer basically,” attributable to the situation of the tumor.

“Seeing your son crooked up to all of those machines — and he had to hunch for a shunt two or three occasions, and that used to be heartbreaking every time — even in that rapid length of time, I couldn’t take into consideration him having to fight via chemo.”

Cannon experienced a develop of chemo himself as medicine for his lupus and “knew what that did to me.”

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“I knew how as a stout grown man, that process … My hair used to be falling out,” he acknowledged. “I wouldn’t even name it pain; it neutral correct sucked every little thing out of you. I couldn’t take into consideration that on a newborn and what that may possibly develop.”

Of their concerns for Zen’s quality of lifestyles, the medication option would contain additionally required him to “are residing in the hospital.”

“He would contain by no system gone residence,” Cannon acknowledged, explaining he and Scott in the demolish “went to the residence of ‘we prefer to catch pleasure from him and we need him to catch pleasure from [us].'”

The final days were “no longer easy” for the daddy, who credited Scott for “her energy, her resilience.”

“I without a doubt couldn’t contain did it without her. The indisputable fact that she used to be the one, from each and each facet she handled it,” he acknowledged. “We had some excellent moments. We had the opportunity, we knew the transition used to be coming. It took situation lots faster than we belief, however even that final weekend I knew, ‘right here’s potentially going to be the final weekend.'”

Cannon continued, “Fortuitously we did every little thing from the sunrise, going to the sea sprint, the sundown, acknowledged some excellent prayers as a household, and basically got right here collectively as a household in a very excellent intention. I’m grateful for that, however it completely used to be without a doubt no longer easy. To designate your limited one there, suffering at a level and searching at things shut down, it used to be fine intense.”

As well to to Zen and his 2d toddler on the system with Scott, Cannon additionally shares sons Upward thrust Messiah, 10 weeks, and Golden Sagon, 5, besides to daughter Highly efficient Queen, 23 months, with model Brittany Bell.

He is additionally dad to daughter Beautiful Zeppelin, 3 weeks, and twins Zion and Zillion, 17 months, with Abby De La Rosa, besides to 11-year-outmoded twins Monroe and Moroccan with ex-wife Mariah Carey. He additionally shares son Legendary Esteem, 5 months, with model Bre Tiesi and welcomed daughter Onyx Ice Cole with former Sign Is Finest model LaNisha Cole in September