Tears and Tragedy: Michael Strahan's Daughter Isabella, 19, Reveals Battle with Rare Brain Cancer in Emotional Confession

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Calorogu, Shark Media, Hi,
and Welcome to Entertainment Daily, a short

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roundup of the top entertainment stories into
day's news. Michael Straehand's nineteen year old

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daughter Isabella broke down in tears as
she candidly revealed she's been battling a rare

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brain cancer and had to undergo emergency
surgery after doctors found a tumor bigger than

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a golf ball growing at the back
of her brain. The USC freshman appeared

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on Good Morning America with her dad
on Thursday morning, with the pair opening

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up to Robin Roberts about the youngster's
serious diagnosis. Budding model Isabella smiled as

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she told Robin, I'm feeling good, not too bad. I'm very excited

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for this whole process to wrap,
but you have to keep living every day

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through the whole thing. Michael and
Isabella revealed that the teenager's medello blastoma diagnosis

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came after she began suffer and from
excruciating headaches during her freshman year in college

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when she was just eighteen. I
noticed something was off since probably September.

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Isabella, who has a twin sister, Sophia, shared like October first that's

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when I definitely noticed headaches, nausea. I couldn't walk straight. Michael confessed

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that when his daughter shared her symptoms
with him, he never considered that they

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might be indications she was battling cancer, particularly because she was just eighteen and

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was so young, strong and healthy. Isabella was ultimately diagnosed with adulo blastoma,

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which according to GMA, accounts for
twenty percent of old childhood brain tumors

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and is typically found in around five
hundred children each year, most commonly those

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between the ages of five and nine. On October twenty seventh, one day

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before her nineteenth birthday, Isabella underwent
emergency surgery to remove the tumor, with

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Michael stating that doctors wanted to get
it out as soon as possible. Following

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the surgery, Isabella underwent several rounds
of proton radiation therapy, which she completed

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just one day before she revealed her
diagnosis to the world. I got to

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ring the bell signifying the end of
treatment yesterday, she shared with a smile.

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It was great. It was very
exciting because it's been a long thirty

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sessions over six weeks. Ashley Judd
has recounted her heartbreaking moment she discovered her

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Naomi Jud's body after she committed suicide
aged seventy six on April thirtieth last year.

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Naomi died from a single gunshot to
the head and left a suicide note

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near her body at her home in
Lapor's Fork, Tennessee. According to an

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autopsy report, Jud battled with significant
anxiety, depression and by a polit disorder.

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Ashley appeared on Wednesday's episode of CNN's
All There Is with Anderson Cooper to

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discuss her mother's death. While Cooper
reflected on his brother Carter's suicide in nineteen

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eighty eight, aged twenty three,
Ashley said it was traumatic and unexpected because

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it was death by suicide and I
found her bit. She added, was

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so glad she was there for her
mother after her death. Even when I

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walked in that room and I saw
that she had harmed herself, the first

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thing out of my mouth was,
Mama, I see how much you've been

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suffering, and it's okay. I
am here, and it's okay to let

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go. She revealed that she had
told her mother to go and find her

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late loved ones, adding all was
forgiven long ago. Leave it all here,

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Take nothing be free. Cooper broke
down in tears as he detailed his

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grief over his beloved brother's death,
with Ashley saying, I'm here. Anderson

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Carter Cooper jumped to his death off
the balcony of his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt's

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apartment while she looked on in New
York City. Cooper said, one of

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the things I found so hard about
losing my brother to suicide was I get

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stuck in how his life ended and
the violence of it. He asked Ashley

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if Naomi committing suicide had led her
to question how much she knew her,

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with the star responding, I really
honor the place in you that that's coming

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from. I think we all deserve
to be remembered for how we lived and

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how we died as simply part of
the biggest story. Just two weeks before

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her shocking death, iconic country singer
Naomi stood on stage with her daughter Wenona

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in a surprise reunion at the Country
Music Awards. They sang a powerful song

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of reconciliation written by Naomi, Love
Can Build a Bridge in what was her

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last public appearance before her suicide.
Aaron Rodgers will not be returning to the

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pat McAfee show for the remainder of
the NFL season, the show's host confirmed

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Wednesday. McAfee had said that rogers
weekly appearances as a guest on the show

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would come to an end following the
regular season as planned. However, the

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host said he was relieved Rogers would
have a break from appearing on the program

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following comments the NFL quarterback made last
week in which he claimed that Jimmy Kimmel

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could be linked to Jeffrey Epstein.
The comments led to a highly publicized feud

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between Rogers and the late night host, causing Kimmel to threaten to sue the

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quarterback. The issue was also widely
debated on social media, where McAfee said

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he received a deluge of messages about
the non sports related issue. I'm pumped

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that that is no longer going to
be every single Wednesday of my life,

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McAfee said Wednesday. There's going to
be a lot of people that are happy

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with that, myself included. The
host added, to be honest, the

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way it ended, it got real
loud. I'm happy that he's not going

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to be in my mentions going forward, which is great news, more entertainment

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in just a moment, Elton John
is auctioning items from his home in Atlanta

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named the Collection of Sir Elton John. Goodbye Peachtree Road. The contents of

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the music legends of former penthouse in
Atlanta will be up for auction at Christie's

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starting on February twenty first. Elton, who sold his thirteen thousand square foot

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Atlanta condo for seven million dollars last
year, is auctioning a large number of

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items that included a custom Damien Hurst, an eighteenth century costume designed by Sandy

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Powell, and a pair of silver
leather boots with red leather letters E and

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JAY on the sides. Per a
press release from Christy's, John's property will

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be presented in a series of landmark
sales at Christy's Rockefeller Center. The series

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will be both live and online and
comprise eight sales total. Each sale will

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focus on a unique aspect of John's
life and collection. According to The New

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York Times, the auctioning is set
to bring in a whopping ten million dollars,

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with John's Yamaha Conservatory Grand piano being
estimated to cost a maximum of fifty

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thousand dollars. Meanwhile, according to
the press release, the auction house is

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seeking three hundred thousand dollars for a
Julian Schnabel's portrait of John dressed in a

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gown and ruffled collar, while an
Irving Pen portrait of a black and white

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Vogue cover of model Jean Patchett in
New York nineteen fifty is estimated to sell

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between one hundred and one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars. As time went on,

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the walls got more full. John's
husband and manager, David Furnished,

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told The New York Times as he
spoke of the belongings in their home,

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Olton never put things in drawers.
He brought them to live with his art.

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According to Christie's, a public exhibition
in their galleries would take place on

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February ninth through the twenty first,
while a pop up gift shop of John's

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eyewear, apparel, vinyl and accessories
will also be open at the same time.

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Bruno Mars's thirteen year relationship with his
girlfriend Jessica Cabin is reportedly on the

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rocks. The singer and model have
been in a relationship since twenty eleven,

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but is sent to have spent Christmas
in New Year's Eve apart Bruno's busy touring

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schedule has reportedly kept them away from
each other, with a friend of the

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couple claiming they are living separate lives. They told the son Bruno and Jessica

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rarely spend time together anymore. It
is really sad. They are living separate

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lives, so it doesn't bode well
for their relationship. It feels like things

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are fizzling out between them and they
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