Howie Mandel and his daughter Jackelyn Schulz are giving fans some insight into what their family has privately been dealing with for the last several years. The America’s Got Talent judge revealed in a new interview on In Depth with Graham Bensinger that his grandson, Axel, was diagnosed with leukemia.

Axel is Schulz’s son. “This is the first time we’ve ever talked about it on camera,” Mandel admitted.

The duo revealed that Axel was diagnosed after a trip to Hawaii when they took the toddler to the hospital thinking he had the flu. He had his first dose of chemotherapy within 24 hours. While recalling that time in her life, Jackelyn got emotional and broke down in tears, leading her dad to take the charge on sharing what happened.

“He had to have a bone marrow transplant from his

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