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Nick Cannon Opens Up About 12 Kids & Fatherhood Challenges
Nick Cannon is reflecting connected the beingness of his and Alyssa Scott's late son.
The Masked Singer host posted a heartfelt tribute to Zen connected what would person been his 2nd birthday, sharing images from a beachside gathering honoring him.
"A Difficult Day that turned into a Beautiful Night…," Nick wrote June 24 alongside a representation of himself and friends connected a formation adjacent to immense blocks that spelled retired Zen. "We volition everlastingly observe Zen's Light! I emotion you Son."
In a travel up Instagram Story, the 42-year-old wrote, "Happy Birthday Zen. We Love You Son..."
Alyssa besides shared a connection to Zen, who passed distant from encephalon cancer successful December 2021, connected her ain societal media page.
"Happy heavenly day Zen," she captioned a achromatic and achromatic snap of the 2 successful the infirmary the time helium was born. "When I get contiguous enough, erstwhile I bash what feels honorable and true.. Somehow the infinitesimal leads maine close to you. Me and the girls were capable to spot you successful truthful galore ways today.We emotion you for eternity. 6/23."
Since their son's decease astatine 5 months old, Nick and Alyssa—who are besides parents to girl Halo, 6 months, person opened up astir their grief.
"I ever effort my champion to stay affirmative but close present I can't assistance but outcry retired "it's not accidental to beryllium similar this," the exemplary wrote connected Instagram June 2022 to people what would've been Zen's archetypal birthday. "In my caput I tin spot him smashing his barroom and crawling around, tugging astatine my legs. But the world is I volition beryllium the 1 to stroke retired his archetypal candle. I volition beryllium wishing helium was inactive present with us. GO REST HIGH."
Back successful December, Nick shared immoderate of the reasons wherefore Zen did not spell done with chemotherapy after doctors offered it.
"They beauteous overmuch told maine that champion lawsuit scenario, your lad could unrecorded to 3 oregon 4 years old," he recalled on The Checkup with Dr. David Agus, per People. "So instantly erstwhile I heard that, I thought, prime of life. I wanted him to person the champion beingness helium could have."
Having undergone chemo himself to dainty lupus, Nick didn't privation that for his son.
"Seeing your lad hooked up to each of those machines—and helium had to spell for a shunt 2 oregon 3 times, and that was heartbreaking each time—even successful that abbreviated magnitude of time, I couldn't ideate him having to spell done chemo," Nick continued. "I knew however arsenic a afloat grown man, that process. I wouldn't adjacent telephone it pain. It conscionable sucked everything retired of you. I couldn't imagine that connected a newborn and what that would do."
Nick is besides dada to twins Moroccan Cannon and Monroe Cannon, 11, with Mariah Carey as good as Golden Cannon, 6, Rise Messiah Cannon, 8 months and daughter Powerful Queen Cannon, 2, with Brittany Bell.
He and Selling Sunset's Bre Tiesi are parents to lad Legendary Love Cannon, 12 months, portion helium shares 9-month-old Onyx Ice Cole Cannon with LaNisha Cole. And helium and Abby De La Rosa person 3 kids together, 2-year-old duplicate sons Zion Mixolydian Cannon and Zillion Heir Cannon and girl Beautiful Zeppelin Cannon, 7 months.
