The heartbroken father shared the information on The Nick Cannon Show, revealing that the little boy’s tumour developed around Thanksgiving Day. “Ultimately, it was cancer in the brain and the tumour began to grow a lot faster. And so we knew that time was . . .,” Cannon said, before breaking down into tears.
The 41-year-old Cannon added that he spent this past weekend at a beach in California where they shared a few last moments and held each other for the last time.
According to Cannon, Zen’s health issues started when he was just about two months old when they noticed that his head seemed abnormally large but they thought he had a sinus problem. “He had this interesting breathing and by the time he was two months, I noticed he had this nice sized head too, a Cannon head,” the TV personality remembered. He, along with Zen’s mother, model Alyssa Scott, took him to the doctor who informed them that the toddler had fluid build-up in his head, known medically as Hydrocephalus.
The former Nickelodeon star eulogised the little one as one of the most loving children he had encountered. We called him Z Chilling. He was always smiling. He had the most beautiful spirit,” the grieving dad said. Zen was Cannon’s seventh child, the fourth of his children born within the past year and a half, the others being twins Zillion and Zion born in June and daughter Powerful delivered in December 2020.