Nick Cannon is opening up how Whitney Houston's death plays The 'America's Got Talent' host makes the confession just hours after announcing that he's quitting his radio hosting gig to focus on his health following hospitalization for blood cloths. Nick Cannon is opening up how Whitney Houston's death plays a part in him deciding to step down from his radio hosting gig. Speaking to ET on Friday, February 17, the "America's Got Talent" host admitted that he found it eerie learning about the tragic news when he was being treated in the hospital for blood clots in his lungs. "I was in my hospital bed looking up, seeing all this go down," the 31-year-old TV personality first recalled. He went on to add, "Nobody knew at the time so it was a lot of emotions going on to know that I had such a life-threatening health scare and then [Whitney died]...It was eerie, it was sad." Of his current condition, Cannon said, ...