Alyssa Scott has taken to Instagram to mourn the loss of her and Nick Cannon's five-month-old son, Zen, who tragically passed away of a brain tumor.
On Wednesday (December 8), Scott shared an emotional homage to Zen, and spoke tenderly of their short time together. The post, which was a video montage, was paired with Jhené Aiko's song 'Promises'.
She captioned the post: "Oh my sweet Zen. The soreness I felt in my arm from holding you is slowly fading away. It's a painful reminder that you are no longer here.
"I caught myself looking in the backseat as I was driving only to see the mirror no longer reflecting your perfect face back at me. When I close a door too loudly I hold my breath and wince knowing a soft cry will shortly follow. It doesn't come. The silence is deafening."
The grieving mom continued: "These last 5 months we have been in this race together. We would hand the baton off to each other. You kept me going. It would be the middle of the night and you would smile at me.
"A surge of energy would fill my body and pure joy would radiate from within me. We were a team, both determined to see it through. It feels unbearable running without you now. I can't.
''And in this moment I feel myself being carried. By your sister.. By God. By complete strangers encouraging me to not give up. It has been an honor and privilege being your mommy.. I will love you for eternity. 6•23•21 - 12•5•21."
Cannon, 41, revealed in the latest episode of The Nick Cannon Show on Tuesday, December 7, that his youngest son had died after falling ill with a malignant brain tumor.
He dedicated the emotional episode to his "beautiful son Zen," whom he and Scott welcomed on June 23.
The Masked Singer host told the audience on his show that he'd had a "very tough weekend."
He then went on to explain: "Over the weekend, I lost my youngest son to a condition called hydrocephalus that is pretty much a malignant, midline brain tumor — brain cancer."
Hydrocephalus is characterized by an extreme increase in the amount of fluid in the brain.
"I always noticed he had a cough and so I wanted to check it out," he continued. "He had this real interesting breathing, and by the time he was 2 months old I noticed... he had this nice-sized head, too. I called it a Cannon head.
"We didn’t think anything about it. But I wanted to take him to the doctor for his sinus and breathing. We thought it would be routine," he added.
