Sandra Bullock has finally spoken out about her partner Bryan Randall’s death three years later.
The Oscar winner, 62, appeared on the “SmartLess” podcast this week and explained why she kept Randall’s battle with ALS a secret from the public.
“He asked me not to share,” she said. “I know why he asked me not to.”
However, Bullock admitted that Randall’s request “isolated [her] in the process.”
Bullock explained that only her sister, Gesine Bullock-Prado, knew about Randall’s health battle, and the actress assumed she could “handle” leaving everyone else in the dark.
However, dealing with her partner’s health crisis, on top of raising her two kids during the COVID-19 pandemic, became “a trifecta that was pretty dark.”
The “Gravity” star said she eventually confided in pals like Jennifer Aniston and “SmartLess” co-host Jason Bateman’s wife, Amanda Anka, about what she was going through.
But by then, Bullock was resigned to the fact that the photographer would die.
“I think where he was in his journey, both physically and mentally, I started grieving Brian four years before he passed,” she shared. “There was something that had shifted.”
She continued, “My person left a lot earlier than the body left. I don’t think I ever dealt with that until after he passed, because you’re just on this treadmill.”
The “Miss Congeniality” star also called ALS “a traumatic diagnosis.”
Randall lost his three-year battle with the neurodegenerative disease on Aug. 5, 2023. He was 57.
“Bryan chose early to keep his journey with ALS private, and those of us who cared for him did our best to honor his request,” his family said in a statement to Page Six at the time.
“We are immensely grateful to the tireless doctors who navigated the landscape of this illness with us and to the astounding nurses who became our roommates, often sacrificing their own families to be with ours.”
Randall’s family added, “At this time we ask for privacy to grieve and to come to terms with the impossibility of saying goodbye to Bryan.”
There is no cure for ALS, which affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, causing patients to lose the ability to speak, eat, move and breathe over time. It is also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.
Bullock met Randall in January 2015 when he photographed her son Louis’ 5th birthday party. They started dating soon after and made their public debut as a couple that October at the premiere of her movie “Our Brand Is Crisis.”
“I found the love of my life,” the “Blind Side” star gushed on “Red Table Talk” in December 2021. “It’s the best thing ever.”
Randall helped raise Bullock’s son Louis, 16, and daughter Laila, 12, both of whom the actress adopted. The shutterbug also had a daughter, Skylar, 32, with his late ex Janine Staten.
After Randall’s death, Bullock’s sister wrote on Instagram, “ALS is a cruel disease but there is some comfort in knowing he had the best of caretakers in my amazing sister and the band of nurses she assembled who helped her look after him in their home.”
Bullock was previously married to West Coast Choppers founder Jesse James from July 2005 to June 2010.
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