Back in December, Nick shared some of the reasons why Zen did not go through with chemotherapy after doctors offered it.
“They pretty much told me that best case scenario, your son could live to 3 or 4 years old,” he recalled on The Checkup with Dr. David Agus, per People. “So instantly when I heard that, I thought, quality of life. I wanted him to have the best existence he could have.”
Having undergone chemo himself to treat lupus, Nick didn’t want that for his son.
“Seeing your son hooked up to all of those machines—and he had to go for a shunt two or three times, and that was heartbreaking every time—even in that short amount of time, I couldn’t imagine him having to go through chemo,” Nick continued. “I knew how as a full grown man, that process. I wouldn’t even call it pain. It just sucked everything out of you. I couldn’t imagine that on a newborn and what that would do.”
Nick is also dad to twins Moroccan Cannon and Monroe Cannon, 11, with Mariah Carey as well as Golden Cannon, 6, Rise Messiah Cannon, 8 months and daughter Powerful Queen Cannon, 2, with Brittany Bell.
He and Selling Sunset‘s Bre Tiesi are parents to son Legendary Love Cannon, 12 months, while he shares 9-month-old Onyx Ice Cole Cannon with LaNisha Cole. And he and Abby De La Rosa have three kids together, 2-year-old twin sons Zion Mixolydian Cannon and Zillion Heir Cannon and daughter Beautiful Zeppelin Cannon, 7 months.
