Gary Sinise is opening up about his decision to step away from Hollywood to care for his wife and late son during his battles with cancer.
The actor recently said he put his acting career on hold in 2019 and moved to Nashville in 2021 to be with his son McKenna Anthony Sinise, who died in January of a rare form of spinal cord cancer called chordoma. had gone, and his wife, Myra Harris, who was suffering from the disease. Diagnosed with breast cancer.
“We were in a cancer battle at the time,” Sinise said. “My wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. My son was diagnosed with this very rare cancer within two months of each other. My father had just had a stroke, and my mother was single, and I had to take care of her. I had my hands full.”
Sinise said Harris has since gone into remission and is now cancer-free, but noted that her son’s battle with cancer was “particularly difficult.” McKenna was diagnosed in 2018 and died earlier this year at the age of 33.
The actor said, “Our son was fighting cancer that had no cure. “Drugs and trying to find doctors or anyone who could do anything for him was like a full-time job. Also, as time went on he became more and more disabled by the cancer. He needed more and more care.
Sinise officially broke away from Hollywood after appearing in 2020, which saw him play Dr. Robert Ellman, and where he played Sheriff Weston.
“I had to stop,” he explained. “Traveling away from family for an extended period of time was not possible with what we were going through.”
As his family mourns his son’s death, the actor added that it was important for him to fulfill his son’s last wish to release music. Senis released. earlier this month.
“He had achieved something that he was supposed to do, which was to record all this music in May and make a full album of it,” Sinise said of McKenna. “It gave me so much joy, just seeing him enjoy those moments.”
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