FILE - Gary Rossington of the band Lynyrd Skynyrd performs on Day 1 of the 2015 Big Barrel Country Music Festival at The Woodlands on Friday, June 26, 2015, in Dover, Del. Rossington, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s last surviving original member who also helped to found the group, died Sunday, March 5, 2023, at the age of 71. (Photo by Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP, File)
Lynyrd Skynyrd frontman Johnny Van Zant is asking for prayers for his youngest daughter amid a health scare. On Thursday, the 64-year-old singer revealed in a Facebook and Instagram video that his daughter, Taylor, was recently treated at an emergency room after having a “numbing feeling on her right side” before doctors discovered a mass on her brain last week.
Van Zant told fans that doctors found a mass on Taylor’s brain following a CAT scan but that they don’t believe it to be cancerous. “Some of it was bleeding, that was causing the numbing part,” he explained. “Saying this, we’ve had her with a great neurology team, a group of doctors and they don’t think it’s the C-word, so that’s a good thing.