Here’s another reason to love Bradley Cooper.
The Sexiest Man Alive of 2011 told Details magazine that he moved in with his mother, Gloria, after his father, Charles, died in Jan. 2011 after a long fight with cancer.
“We’re surviving. Both of us. Let’s face it: It’s probably not easy for her, by the way, to be living with her son. It’s life,” Cooper said.
“And right now, two years after my father’s death, this is where we are,” he continued. “My family is very close, and my dad dying was brutal for all of us. It was a schism, and its aftershock has not stopped. And we need each other.”
And it’s not like Cooper’s mom is in the guesthouse while he’s in the compound. “She’s in the next room,” he said.
The “Silver Linings Playbook” star confessed his living situation is “not without complications,” but added that he and his mother, who was his Oscars date this year, have a close relationship.
“She’s a cool chick. We can hang, and she can roll with the punches. If that wasn’t the case, there’s no way.”
The 38-year-old Oscar-nominee shared how his father’s death made a huge impact on how he lives his life now.
“I think my father’s death addressed some of the fears or quandaries I had as a child about mortality. It was his parting gift to me. Watching this man — my father — leave his body and go. Watching him die. All of a sudden I was like, ‘Oh, right, I’m going to die too.’ Here it is. It’s not in a book. It’s not in a movie. It’s not in a story that was told to me. It’s not driving by an accident or watching it on TV. It’s someone you love dying in front of you. I was like, ‘Okay. This is death. And this is going to happen to me one day.’ There was a huge freedom that came with that. So now I just don’t sweat the … small stuff. My mind is just less busy now.”
Currently dating 20-year-old British model Suki Waterhouse, Cooper told the mag he also wants to be a dad one day.
“I really hope I have that experience in my life. I saw how much joy fatherhood gave my own dad. So I hope it’s part of my journey. You go through stages in your life, and fatherhood seems like a natural stage.”