Yahoo Lifestyle 'Forrest Gump' Star Gary Sinise Reveals Serious Health Diagnosis Sparking His and Wife's Major Life Change
Gary Sinise is opening up about his family's recent health woes.
The actor, known for playing Lieutenant Dan in the 1994 hit film Forrest Gump, recently shared the reason he and his wife moved out of Hollywood back in 2021, which had to do with two devastating health diagnoses in his family.
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During an appearance on Fox News Digital this week, Sinise, 69, revealed that he put his acting career on hold after his wife, Moira Harris Sinise, and their son, McCanna "Mac" Anthony Sinise, were both battling cancer.
"We were in the cancer fight during that time," he said in the interview published Thursday, Nov. 14, despite previously claiming that he moved from California to Tennessee because of a lack of income tax.
But according to the CSI: NY star, he was dealing with an onslaught of family hardships.
"My wife had been diagnosed with breast cancer. My son was diagnosed with this very rare cancer," he revealed, noting that the diagnoses came within two months of each other. Plus, Sinise's father had also suffered a stroke around the same time.
"I kind of had my hands full," he recalled.
Sinise's wife eventually went into remission, but his son had an "especially difficult" illness while battling chordoma, a rare spinal cancer.
"Our son was fighting this cancer with no cure," Sinise, who also shares daughters Sophie, 36, and Ella, 32, with his wife, said in the new interview, noting that taking care of Mac was a "full-time job."
"Plus, he became more and more disabled by the cancer as time went on," he explained. "He needed more and more care."
Mac passed away at the age of 33 on Jan. 5, and his dad said he was "happy at the end of his life."
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