Howie Mandel is sharing his grandson’s diagnosis for the first time.

The America’s Got Talent judge and his daughter Jackelyn Shultz shared they privately navigated her 9-year-old son Axel ’s cancer diagnosis.

“The coping, it became really specific,” Howie said alongside his daughter during their appearance on the Sept. 17 episode of In Depth with Graham Bensinger . “Cause his issue is an autoimmune issue. It’s leukemia.—in fact, it’s the first time we’ve ever talked about it on camera.”

Howie, 69, shared that amid keeping Axel’s diagnosis private, he and Jackelyn—who is his cohost on the Howie Mandel Does Stuff podcast—had to navigate people’s negative assumptions on top of the pain of Axel’s health issues.

“We have been doing the podcast and sometimes somebody woul

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