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Michael Strahan’s 19-year-old daughter, Isabella, revealed her brain cancer diagnosis in an emotional segment on “Good Morning America” Thursday.
“Today my daughter @IsabellaStrahan joined @RobinRoberts and myself for an interview about the journey she has been going through on @GMA,” Michael wrote in a post on Instagram.
“I love you Isabella and I’m always by your side. To all sending love, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts!!”
An MRI scan in October 2023 revealed a fast-growing, aggressive brain tumor called medulloblastoma in the cerebellum at the base of Isabella’s brain.
The cerebellum controls movement, coordination, balance and a sense of equilibrium.
Isabella (right) underwent brain surgery in October, followed by six weeks of radiation therapy. She will begin chemotherapy treatments at Duke University, where her twin sister Sophia (left) is a freshman.
Isabella, a freshman at USC, said she didn’t want to “hide” her diagnosis.
She created a YouTube series in partnership with Duke Children’s Hospital & Health Center.
“I’m feeling good, not too bad. 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.
“With my platform, I hope to just kind of be a voice and be a person who people who maybe are going through something similar, going through chemotherapy or radiation, can look at and just hear and just watch, or find something interesting about their day,” she said. “I’m just excited for that.”
“This is something that is so personal,” Michael told Roberts, a breast cancer survivor.
“But her idea was, ‘I want to share it and I want to help other people,’ and that goes into the spirit of who she’s always been.”
In addition to Sophia, Isabella is sister to half siblings Tanita and Michael Jr.
Isabella and Sophia are Michael’s daughters by his ex-wife Jean Muggli.
