Michael Strahan calls daughter Isabella A ‘Survivor and A Thriver’ during emotional preview of her cancer documentary

Michael Strahan praised his daughter Isabella as a “survivor and a stick” in an emotional moment in the course of Good morning America‘s premiere on the trailer to Life interrupted: Isabella Strahan’s fight against cancerThe upcoming Primetime Special on university students’ fight against brain cancer.

After the trailer, co-host Robin Roberts – who is in remission from Breast cancer After her diagnosis in 2007 – reached out to Strahan and pressed his arm supportively.

“It was a tough start. It got happier at the end for me, but it’s hard to relive it, “said Strahan, 53, after the trailer after the trailer-as dives into Isabella’s diagnosis and at-Times Rocky-treatment-I 29 January episode.

“You don’t really think the worst until you told the worst,” says a tear -wise Isabella in the trailer. Isabella, Now 20, had been diagnosed with MedulloblastomaAn aggressive brain cancer, and on October 28, 2023-her 19th birthday-Birthday, she has an emergency surgery to remove a golf ball size brain tumor located at the bottom of her skull.

That which followed was six weeks of radiation, four rounds with Chemotherapy and three brain operations – and she documented her The whole health journey On her YouTube series. She rang to the clock to signal the end of her treatment Last June.

Now cancer -free, Isabella is back in college at the University of Southern California.

When co-host Lara Spencer Strahan praised the family for sharing their journey and put the focus back on her daughter and said, “She is the one who has been open. She has been amazing and I think it has helped many people. “

When he turned to co-host Roberts, Strahan held his arm and said, “As you said and always says, make a mess a message and she has done it and she is a survivor and a guest.”

Life interrupted: Isabella Strahan’s fight against cancer Premier February 5 at ABC at. 10/9C and streaming platform hulu.

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