Gary Sinise stepped away from acting to care for his wife and son with cancer:Had my hands full

Gary Sinise is opening up about his decision to take time away from Hollywood.The Oscar-nominated actor, 69, revealed he left Los Angeles in 2021 after multiple members of his family battled cancer.“We were in the cancer fight during that time,” Sinise told Fox News Digital on Thursday.“Traveling away from the family wasn’t possible with what we were going through.

My wife [Moira Harris] had been diagnosed with breast cancer.My son was diagnosed with this very rare cancer you know, within two months of each other.” The “Forrest Gump” star had previously announced that his son, McCanna Anthony “Mac” Sinise, was diagnosed in August 2018 with a “very rare cancer” known as Chordoma.

This type of cancer forms in a person’s spine or at the base of their skull, per Cleveland Clinic.Mac sadly passed away at age 33 earlier this year.Just a few months before his son’s diagnosis, Harris, 70, was battling stage 3 breast cancer. “And the cancer fight for Mac was especially difficult because he was… fighting this cancer with no cure,” Sinise confessed to the outlet.

“And trying to find drugs and doctors, and trying to find anybody who could do anything for him was like a full-time job.”The “CSI: NY” star continued, “Plus he became more and more disabled by the cancer as time went on and he needed more and more care.”At the time, Sinise’s dad had also “just had a stroke” and he had to “take care” of his mom, who was “alone” at the time.As he recounted, “I kind of had my hands full.”Harris, who tied the knot with Sinise in 1981, went into remission and is cancer-free.

However, he explained that it was “difficult” to watch his son fight the cancer “until he finally just couldn’t fight it anymore.” “As parents, it is so difficult losing a child,” he reflected.“My heart goes out to all who have suffered a similar loss, and to anyone who has lost a loved one.

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