“The View”’s Sara Haines tears up reuniting with Michael Strahan for emotional interview about daughter’s most cancers

The View panelist Sara Haines had an emotional reunion along with her former GMA3 cohost Michael Strahan, because the TV character joined the beloved discuss present for a wide-ranging interview that included a tear-filled section about his daughter Isabella and her most cancers journey.

Strahan appeared Friday on the discuss present to debate his daughter's upcoming ABC particular, Life Interrupted: Isabella Strahan's Battle to Beat Most cancers, which chronicles her analysis and subsequent therapy after she underwent emergency surgical procedure in October 2023 to take away a big, malignant tumor known as a medulloblastoma.

"Isabella's first mind surgical procedure left her having to relearn methods to stroll, discuss, and even eat on her personal. She then went by way of a month of day by day radiation, chemotherapy," Haines stated, segueing right into a query for Strahan as she fought again tears reside on the air. "[It shows] the ache of a mother or father watching your little one really feel uncomfortable — and so few of us cope with such a ache."

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After Haines requested Strahan how that have was for him, he replied, "You're going to make me cry," earlier than discussing the problem he faces in deciding whether or not or to not watch his daughter's particular.

"I’ve not watched one vlog that she's completed," Strahan stated, additionally referencing Isabella's documentation of her therapy on her YouTube video collection. "I don't even know if I'll watch this documentary, regardless that I participated and answered questions for it. It's simply too laborious for me to observe, to relive it."

Strahan added that he felt "hopeless" and "helpless" as he watched Isabella bear therapy earlier than his daughter was declared cancer-free in July 2024.

"You're only a father who is aware of nothing greater than to repair what you may on your children. I can't repair this. All I can do is sit again and pray that we’ve got the correct medical doctors and that it's one thing that may be handled so she will get again to being as regular as attainable and get again to her life," Strahan stated. "She has proven me. I've discovered a lot watching her undergo all of this, but it surely's the hardest factor to sit down in a hospital room along with your child, and also you simply sit there and inform them you’re keen on them, and have your child have a look at you and say, 'Dad, I'll do no matter they are saying. I simply wish to reside. I don't wish to die.'"

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Haines praised his daughter as "a tigress" and lauded "the energy that's come out of Isabella in watching her face this."

Haines and Strahan first labored collectively in a everlasting capability as cohosts on the third hour of Good Morning America, initially titled GMA Day, in 2018. The present was later renamed Strahan and Sara in 2019, earlier than it underwent a further title change to GMA3: Strahan, Sara, and Keke after including actress Keke Palmer to the panelist lineup.

The View airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET/PT on ABC.

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