Michael Strahan felt “hopeless” after daughter’s brain tumor diagnosis

Sara Haines and Michael Strahan had an emotional reunion.

On Friday’s episode of The viewAt Strahan came by to talk about his daughter Isabella’s new special, Life interrupted: Isabella Strahan’s fight against cancer. The special documents Isabella’s journey around when she had to receive surgery to remove a large tumor in her brain.

Strahan explained that he heard the news of his daughter’s diagnosis by receiving a phone call from a doctor who shared his MRI results. She was 18 years old and only a few days shy to turn 19.

“Isabella’s first brain surgery left her having to re -learn how to go, talk and even eat on her own. So she then went through a month of daily radiation, chemotherapy, the pain of a parent who saw your child feeling uncomfortable. And so few of us deal with this type of pain. How was it for you? “Haines asked Strahan as he visually fought tears.

Strahan replied, “You will make me cry.” Despite having participated in the documentary, Good morning America The host said he won’t see it because it’s “just too hard” for him to “relive it.”

“And I know you know the girls when we did the show together, they would spend time with us,” Strahan told his earlier GMA3 Co-host, Haines.

“It’s just that you’re hopeless. And you are helpless. You are just a father who knows no more than arranging what you can for your kids. I can’t fix this. All I can do is lean back and ask that we have the right doctors and that it is something that can be treated so she can come back to being as normal as possible and getting back to her Life, ”he said. “She has shown me, I’ve learned so much from her and seen her go through all this, but it’s the hardest thing to sit in a hospital room with your child and you just sit there and you just tell them you Love them and make your child look at you and say, ‘Hi Dad, I will do what they say. I just want to live. I don’t want to die. ” ‘

Haines added that Isabella is a “tigress” and praised her strength and called doc a “must-watch.”

Straha also mentioned how his daughter became his role model because of this experience.

Life interrupted: Isabella Strahan’s fight against cancer Will premiere at ABC Wednesday at. 22