Katharine McPhee and David Foster’s son’s nanny has died: Mystery surrounding ‘horrible family tragedy’ is revealed as singer pulls out of tour to rush back to the US

Katharine McPhee has suddenly pulled out of the final dates of her Asia tour with husband David Foster after discovering that their son’s nanny has died, it has been claimed.

The deceased’s name and cause of death have not yet gone public. 

However TMZ reports that the married couple considered the nanny ‘part of the family’ and are devastated by the development.

McPhee initially told fans she was suffering ‘a horrible tragedy in their family’ that required the mother-of-one to rush back to the US. 

The singer, 39, who has been busy performing in Asia with her 16-time Grammy Award-winning spouse, 73, cryptically shared the heartbreaking news in a statement posted to her Instagram on Friday. 

Devastating: Katharine McPhee has suddenly pulled out of the final dates of her Asia tour with husband David Foster after discovering that their son’s nanny has died

‘Horrible tragedy’: The singer, 39, who has been busy touring Asia with her 16-time Grammy Award winning musician partner, 73, took to Instagram on Friday to share a statement

Baby mine: McPhee and Foster are pictured in March 2021 during their first public sighting with their new two-year-old son Rennie

She announced that she would be ‘missing the final two shows’ of the tour, which were due to take place in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, because she ‘needs to return home to family’ immediately. 

The Smash actress penned: ‘Dearest Jakarta fans, it’s with heavy heart I announce I have to miss our final two shows of our Asia run. David and I have had a horrible tragedy in our family and at least one of us need to get back home to our family. 

‘Please know how sorry I am and how much I wish to return one day and perform for you all. Love Katharine.’ 

The actress and singer – who welcomed her first child, son Rennie, in 2021 – did not share any further details about the incident. 

However sources close to McPhee informed TMZ that the tragedy in question was the death of her son’s nanny. 

DailyMail.com has reached out to reps for the McPhee, who have so far been unavailable for comment. 

Shortly after McPhee shared the news, her comments section was flooded with sympathetic messages of support from the couple’s celebrity pals.  

Nicole Scherzinger said: ‘Sending my love and prayers for your family❤️’

Announcement: She has announced that she will be ‘missing the final two shows’ of the tour due to ‘needing to return home to family’ immediately

‘Sending love’: It is unclear what has happened but many celebrity pals sent their well wishes to the couple during this difficult time

Foster’s ex-wife Linda Thompson wrote: ‘Sending you and David love, & hoping that everything is OK.’

It appears for the moment that Foster will still perform the final two shows of the tour in Jakarta, Indonesia on Friday and Saturday. 

He will be joined by Michael Bolton, Loren Allred, Peabo Bryson, and Raisa.

McPhee, who is Foster’s fifth wife, celebrated her fourth wedding anniversary with him just a few weeks ago on June 28.

Foster is also a father to five adult daughters: Sara, 42, Erin, 40, and Jordan, 36, whom he shared with second wife Rebecca Dyer.

He also has daughters Allison, 53, and Amy, 49, from previous relationships.

It come after the couple’s two-year-old son Rennie showed off his drumming skills on Instagram earlier this year.

Foster shared the short clip, which showed the tot keeping solid time while sitting behind his drum kit.

The couple, who recently celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary, share two-year-old son Rennie; pictured in June 2022, when Rennie was just 15-months-old

‘PROGRESS!!’ he gushed in the caption, before informing his followers that Rennie is just ‘2yrs 3mon.’

The composer, arranger, producer and music executive has been documenting his baby son’s progress on the drums since last December.

In the clip, Rennie begins with a cool lick on one of his tom drums, before moving to the snare and ride symbol for a roll on each.

At that point, the adorable boy then showed he can keep a solid beat with the snare, kick and high-hat combination.

Foster first uploaded a video of Rennie playing drums on an electronic percussion device to Instagram on December 23, 2022, which he captioned: ‘Little Drummer Boy.’

And he followed that up in January with a video of Rennie playing an actual drum set for the first time, where he shared how he had made ‘progress at 22 months!!’

Three weeks later Rennie could be seen standing up as he focused on the high-hat symbol with an almost a disco pattern.

‘Finding his groove. 23 months,’ Foster wrote at the time of the post.

Rennie’s passion of percussion was so great that he actually grabbed a pair of chopsticks and began hitting away.

This latest post comes just over three months later, and his improvement on the drums in more than apparent.