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Gary Sinise Says He Stepped Away from Acting to Care for Wife and Son with Cancer: 'Had My Hands Full'

Gary Sinise opened up about his decision to step away from Hollywood in 2019, attributing it to the increasingly difficulty of being away from his family after both his wife Moira Harris and son McCanna Anthony 'Mac' Sinise were diagnosed with cancer.

The Forrest Gump star, 69, shared in an interview with Fox News that his decision to take a break from his career in 2019 came down to the fact that his family were “in the cancer fight during that time." Sinise previously revealed that his son McCanna Anthony “Mac” Sinise was diagnosed in August, 2018 with a "very rare cancer" known as Chordoma, which forms in a person’s spine or at the base of their skull, per Cleveland Clinic. Sinise told Fox News that his son “was happy at the end of his life," explaining Mac "had achieved something that he had set out to do, which was to record all this music and make a full album out of it."

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