It’s another trying time for Ben Watkins and his family. Just three years after the death of both of his parents, Watkins has been diagnosed with Angiomatoid Fibrous Histiocytoma, an extremely rare soft tissue tumour that typically is seen in children and young adults.
He was told the news not long after his 13th birthday in September. In 2017, Watkins’ parents were found dead after a domestic violence incident that was ruled a murder-suicide, according to the Chicago Tribune.
The newspaper reported that Watkins’ father shot and killed his mother, and then himself. At the time of his parents’ deaths, Watkins had just wrapped filming season 6 of Fox’s “MasterChef Junior”, which aired the next year.
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