Michael Strahan’s teenage daughter breaks down as she shares cancer diagnosis

The Independent

Michael Strahan’s teenage daughter broke down in tears as she shared that she has been diagnosed with a rare form of brain cancer.  Isabella, 19, revealed that she had emergency surgery after doctors found a tumour bigger than a golf ball a the back of her brain.  She spoke to Good Morning America on Thursday (11 January) alongside her father as she shared how the diagnosis has made her feel.  “I’m very excited for this whole process to wrap but you just have to keep living every day through the whole thing,” she said.

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00:00 It's difficult because when I was trying to see other people who have been affected,

00:04 I think it's like five in a million, so it's not very common.

00:08 And one person I found, I reached out, but...

00:15 Here you go, baby.

00:17 Okay, take your time.

00:18 Okay.

00:19 I told myself I was going to cry.

00:24 It's okay.

00:25 It happens.

00:26 Yeah.

00:27 It happens.

00:28 You're allowed to cry.

00:29 Yeah.

00:30 It's been like two months of keeping it quiet, which is definitely difficult.

00:34 I don't want to hide it anymore because it's hard to always keep it and help too.

00:38 Just kind of be a voice and be a person people who maybe are going through chemotherapy or radiation

00:43 can look at and find something interesting about their day.

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