Here is a look at some of the tragic circumstances that Bill Rancic has experienced in his lifetime.
For Bill, it was a somewhat familiar, albeit tragic, story.
Edward Rancic was 66 when complications from kidney cancer separated him from his son.

“Not a day goes by that I don’t miss you.
Thanks for teaching me how to be a dad.
Bill and Giuliana Rancic co-own a number of businesses, including their popular chain of Italian restaurants.

once Style stopped operations.
“It’s gut wrenching,” Bill toldCoping Magazine.
“As a husband, we want to always be the protector.

We’ve got to be the problem solver.
And this was a problem that I wasn’t able to solve.”
Both Bill and Giuliana told Coping the situation brought them closer together as spouses.

But when their surrogate miscarried again the following New Year’s, it was something else altogether.
But it’s like, God gives you what is right for you,” Giuliana said toPeoplein 2024.
For Bill Rancic, however, death was a very real possibility in 2015.

In fact, Rancic was mere seconds from being involved in an in-air collision that killed another man.
Like the year prior, Rancic’s 2015 role was that of skydiver.
Hood died and Holland survived," Rancic explained toCentral New Jersey Newsin 2016.

“After surviving five tours in Iraq, Afghanistan, this was the way he died.
It shakes you to the core.
I was sitting with him, we jumped out 5 seconds apart.
It could easily have been me.
I think about him every night when I say my prayers.”