Michael Strahan is glad to be in the end-zone now that his daughter Isabella Strahan is cancer-free . But while the NFL Hall of Famer’s daughter underwent multiple rounds of surgeries , chemotherapy and radiation over the past year for medulloblastoma—a malignant brain tumor—Michael admitted he was frightened that she might die. “As a parent you hear that your kid has cancer and you go, ‘Whoa,’” Michael told Town & Country in an interview published Oct.
29. “You have to control your thoughts, because your brain thinks of the worst case scenario and then you work your way back from there.” He noted, “I don’t think I’ll go through the rest of my life without some worry in some shape or form about this.
” The Good Morning America anchor—who shares Isabella and her twin sister, Sophia , both 20, with ex Jean Muggli , as well as children Tanita , 32, and Michael Jr. , 31, with ex-wife Wanda Hutchins —also described how difficult it was to witness Isabella go through treatment. “It’s been a crazy year,” Michael continued.
“I think in the long run we’ll figure out a way to benefit from it. The process was a lot scarier than we imagined—seeing her come out of surgery, and all the things she had to learn how to do again. You just pray that everything gets back to normal.
” He added, “There were times when we said, ‘We know it’s painful and tough, but it’s temporary.’” As for how Isabella—who recently re-started her freshman year .