Gary Sinise spoke about her decision to step away from Hollywood to be with her family during difficult times.

Talk with Fox NewsTHE Forrest Gump The actor said he put his career on pause in 2019 and moved from Los Angeles to Nashville in 2021 to care for his late son McCanna, who died in January of a rare form of bone cancer, and his wife Moira Harris, who had been diagnosed with breast cancer.

“We were battling cancer at that time,” Sinise said. “My wife had been diagnosed with breast cancer. My son received this very rare diagnosis two months apart. My father had just had a stroke and my mother was alone and I had to take care of her .I kind of had my hands full.”

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Harris has since gone into remission and is cancer-free, although their late son’s struggle with the diagnosis was “particularly difficult,” Sinise said. McCanna, also nicknamed “Mac”, was diagnosed in 2018. He died at the age of 33. “Our son was battling this cancer with no cure,” Sinise said. “Trying to find medicine, doctors or someone who could do something for him, it was like a full-time job.”

Sinise, an Emmy, Golden Globe and Tony Award winner, is known for such roles as Lt. Dan Taylor in Forrest Gump and George Wallace in the historical drama of the same name. He played the role of Dr. Robert Ellman in a drama series 13 reasons why and Sheriff Westin in the film Joe Bell before leaving Hollywood. “I had to stop,” Sinise said. “Traveling away from family for extended periods of time was not possible with what we were going through.”

The actor briefly returns to the forefront to release his son’s posthumous album Resurrection and renewal: part 2. “He had done something he had planned to do, which was record all this music in May and make a full album out of it,” Sinise said of Mac, a musician who graduated from the Thornton School of Music from USC. “It gave me a lot of joy, just seeing him enjoy these moments.”