Nick Cannon and Alyssa Scott are celebrating their late son Zen. The Masked Singer host took to Instagram on Sunday, June 23 to share a photo of Zen, who died in December 2021 after being diagnosed with brain cancer. He would have turned three years old.
“Today is the day we celebrate the life of my little guy Zen Scott Cannon, truly an Angel so every 6/23 is a tough one,” Cannon captioned his post. “But the goal is always to try to turn pain into purpose. I love you Zen.
Your light will shine forever my Son. #ZensLight.” Scott also acknowledged the date and posted a tribute of her own on her Instagram Stories.
She posted a sign with a black and white baby photo of Zen which read: “Celebrating Zen’s light. June 23, 2024.” The former couple also share an 18-month-old daughter named Halo Marie.
Cannon announced the death of his son on his talk show, Nick Cannon . “Today is a special one y’all for many reasons but it’s not gonna be an easy one. I haven’t even shared this with anybody, not even the crew,” he said at the time.
“I had a very tough weekend.” During that episode, he explained that concerns first began when he and Scott noticed their son’s head seemed larger than normal for a boy that was only two months old. “He had this real interesting breathing and by the time he was two months old I noticed.
.. he had this nice sized head, I called it a Cannon head.
We didn’t think anything of it, he had a normal Cannon head. But I wanted to take .
