How Michael Strahan’s Childhood Pet Ended Up On The Dinner Table

Michael Strahan has confronted powerful tackles on the soccer discipline, early mornings on “Good Morning America,” and high-stakes moments in broadcasting. Nonetheless, nothing ready him for the jaw-dropping household secret he uncovered years later. His childhood pet pig was really served for dinner.

The previous NFL star and TV host, who grew up between Houston, Texas, and Germany as one among 5 siblings, had no concept that the pig he as soon as cared for had turn into a household meal. That’s, till Michael Strahan’s former “GMA” colleague by chance let it slip.

Sara Haines, who labored alongside Strahan on “GMA,” revealed the story throughout an episode of “The Weekend View” on Could 24.

As a part of a heartwarming phase filmed earlier than the passing of Strahan’s father, Gene, in 2020, Haines sat down together with his mother and father, Gene and Louise Strahan, for an intimate interview about Michael’s childhood.

“I went to shoot together with his mother and father earlier than his father died as a result of I wished to offer him time together with his mother and father,” Haines defined. “As one among 5 kids, they only talked about him.”

However within the midst of reminiscing, a shocking confession emerged.

“They shared with me that they ate the pig,” Haines stated. “And [Michael] did not know. He did not know, ‘trigger they have been all younger.”

Unaware of the culinary destiny of his pet, Michael was blindsided when Haines introduced it as much as him later. “I come again and I am giving Michael a tough time, as one would, and I joked in regards to the pig,” she recalled. “And he is like, ‘What are you speaking about?'”

Realizing she had spilled a long-held household secret, Haines admitted she immediately felt responsible. “He was like, ‘I had no thought.’ And he referred to as his mother. I used to be like, ‘I did not imply to betray the household belief! I simply thought you instructed him!'”

Now a proud canine dad to pups Enzo and Zuma, whom he launched in 2023, Strahan could have traded pigs for poodles, but it surely’s protected to say his household historical past nonetheless has just a few wild tales to inform.

As his previous childhood tales come to mild, Strahan is specializing in the youngsters of his personal.

The previous NFL participant and his daughter, Isabella, just lately opened up a couple of life-changing yr that examined their power, deepened their bond, and finally introduced new perspective to their lives.

In a problem of Town & Country Magazine, the “Good Morning America” co-anchor seems alongside 20-year-old Isabella on the duvet, the place the father-daughter duo speaks candidly about her harrowing battle with medulloblastoma, a uncommon and aggressive type of mind most cancers.

Isabella first revealed her diagnosis publicly in January. Now cancer-free, she’s utilizing her voice to boost consciousness and mirror on how the expertise has reshaped her understanding of life and resilience.

“I really feel like I am 50 years outdated, with all this life expertise,” Isabella instructed the journal. “I’ve grown in so some ways. I am tremendous grateful for strolling and speaking once more. You do not take into consideration the issues you are able to do till you reside with out them.”

Medulloblastoma is a fast-growing malignant tumor that develops within the cerebellum, the a part of the mind answerable for motion and coordination. It’s mostly present in kids and accounts for roughly 20% of all pediatric mind tumors, in line with knowledge revealed within the Journal of Scientific Neuroscience.

Isabella underwent therapy on the Preston Robert Tisch Mind Tumor Heart at Duke College, the place her restoration started.