Overview

• During a July 21 broadcast of his radio show, Seacrest tearfully disclosed that his father’s prostate cancer, detected years earlier, had worsened and spread, prompting his first detailed public update
• While undergoing chemotherapy, his father contracted life-threatening pneumonia that led to an ICU stay where doctors weighed an emergency surgery to save his life
• After weeks in intensive care unable to eat or move independently, Gary Lee Seacrest was discharged early July and now receives full-time home care in Atlanta
• Seacrest has flown to Atlanta from Los Angeles every weekend to support his father and his mother, Connie, who is in remission from cancer
• Doctors discussed emergency surgery in a life-or-death scenario, but Gary opted to delay the operation, steadily regained strength and recently celebrated his upcoming 81st birthday with a beach outing photo