Nick Cannon Visits Sick Children Dressed As Santa, Honors Late Son Zen Who Died of Most cancers

As proven in a video shared to Instagram on Friday, The Masked Singer host dressed up as Santa Clause and visited sick youngsters on the Youngsters’s Hospital of Orange County via Zen’s Gentle Basis, which he and his ex Alyssa Scott created in honor of their son, who died at 5 months outdated from mind most cancers in December 2021.

Within the heartwarming video, Cannon, 43, who sported a head-to-toe Santa swimsuit, introduced vacation pleasure to sick kids on the hospital, with the actor studying books to youngsters, snapping pictures, and giving out Christmas presents.

Zen’s [sic] Gentle shinning [sic] shiny for the vacations!!” he captioned the video. “Thanks to the Youngsters’s Hospital of Orange County and everybody who made the day so loving, heat and memorable.🙏🏾❤️.”

Cannon’s go to to the youngsters’s hospital comes two years after Zen handed away in December 2021 after shedding a battle with mind most cancers.

Cannon and Scott welcomed Zen in late June 2021. A couple of days following the beginning, the 2 turned involved after noticing that their “tremendous calm” new child was having some respiration points.

“It seemed like he had fluid in his lungs, like a sinus an infection or one thing,” Cannon mentioned in a December 2021 interview with PEOPLE. “[The doctors] did not suppose it to be something too regarding.” Nonetheless, he mentioned a couple of weeks later, the physician mentioned that Zen’s head was “rising a little bit two rapidly.”

And that August, when Zen was solely 2 months outdated, Cannon and Scott obtained the unhappy information of their child boy’s most cancers prognosis. Zen was recognized with a high-grade glioma, a uncommon type of mind most cancers. Though medical doctors put a shunt in Zen’s cranium to empty the fluid, his mind tumors sadly continued rising.

Cannon mentioned Zen’s situation severely worsened over Thanksgiving weekend, describing it because the “scariest factor I’ve ever skilled.”

Zen died on December 5, 2021.

Reflecting on his son’s heartbreaking demise, Cannon mentioned, “We had a short while with a real angel. My coronary heart is shattered. I want I may have carried out extra, spent extra time with him, taken extra photos. I want I may have hugged him longer.”

“He was probably the most loving child,” he added. “I have a look at being his father as an excellent privilege.”

Cannon and Scott launched the Zen’s Gentle Basis in June 2022.

“We’re proud to announce his new basis that can assist so many others on this world,” Cannon wrote on Instagram on the time. “‘Zen’s Gentle’ mission is to foster world excellence in hope, grief-care, and pediatric healthcare for households and youngsters in want.”

Cannon has welcomed 12 youngsters with six completely different girls. The Wild ‘N Out host shares 12-year-old twins, Moroccan and Monroe, with ex-wife Mariah Carey. Cannon can be dad to sons Golden, 6, and Rise, 1, in addition to daughter Highly effective, 2, with Brittany Bell, son Legendary, 1, with Bre Tiesi, daughter Onyx, 1, with LaNisha Cole and three kids — daughter Stunning, 1, and 2-year-old twin boys Zion and Zillion — with Abby De La Rosa.

Final December, he welcomed his second baby with Scott, a daughter named Halo, which marked his twelfth general.