‘Survivor’ Winner Ethan Kohn Engaged To Interior Designer


Good news for Survivor winner Ethan Zohn! The cast mate is engaged to interior designer Lisa Heywood. According to People, Zohn and Heywood meeting didn’t only enrich each other’s lives, but also gave Ethan a signal that better days were coming.

The Survivor winner told People about battling cancer twice, “This is the reason I survived cancer twice… to meet Lisa and start a beautiful and healthy new life together.” Zohn was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma back in 2009. He went into remission, and then it came back in 2011. He’s been in remission since 2013, after he received a stem cell transplant thanks to his brother.

When Ethan beat cancer for the second time, the Survivor winner told CBS in 2013 that he was “feeling good.”

“I am in remission. Today is a special day. One year ago today I received my brother’s stem cells… my brother was a match. They wiped out my body and infused my brother’s stem cells into my body. So if you take my DNA sample, it’s like my brother. “

He continued, “There are more and more people living with cancer… People are used to young people with cancer and old people with cancer. The young adult cancer generation is a little bit forgotten. And that’s really the people who are getting cancer, surviving cancer and having the rest of their lives to live. And 50 percent of them are rare cancers.”

Of his choice to speak about this cancer, he said, “I went public. My choice was a cathartic way to deal with my situation. I helped create, and the media helped nurture this vision of hope and this source of strength and survival — and then the cancer came back. I felt like I had let people down… I felt a little embarrassed.”

Ethan and Lisa met at the Clinton Global Initiative charity event. The event was founded by Bill Clinton back in 2005 to create innovative solutions to the world’s challenges. After Zohn and Heywood met, they dated for two years. Zohn proposed to Heywood on a dock of their lake house in New Hampshire.

Ethan decided to make their engagement extra special, as Zohn proposed with the ring his late father gave to his mother. Zohn’s father died of cancer when Ethan was 14 years old.

Congratulations to Ethan and Lisa!

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