“The Hangover” star opened up about his past struggles to survivalist Bear Grylls.
The troubled star credits his then-roommate and fellow actor Will Arnett for sitting him down in 2004 and having a stern talk with him that led Cooper on a path to recovery.
Bear Grylls and Bradley Cooper pose for a portrait during their journey through the Pathfinder Canyon area in Wyoming in an episode of “Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge.”Cooper pictured out and about on June 6 in New York City.Yet Cooper admitted to Grylls that he almost fell off the wagon again in January 2011 when his father died in his arms of lung cancer.
“I definitely had a nihilistic attitude towards life after, just like I thought ‘I’m going to die,'” Cooper recalled. “I don’t know, it wasn’t great for a little bit until I thought I have to embrace who I actually am and try to find a peace with that, and then it sort of evened out.”National Geographic for Disney/Jeff Ellingsonopposite Lady Gaga“It made it easier to be able to really enter in there,” Cooper told Grylls about his Oscar-nominated performance in the 2018 film. “And thank goodness I was at a place in my life where I was at ease with all of that so I could really let myself go.
“I’ve been very lucky with the roles I’ve had to play. It’s been a real blessing. I hope I get to keep doing it,” he added.National Geographic for Disney/Jeff EllingsonNetflix film “Maestro” — a Leonard Bernstein biopic that features Cooper wearing a large prosthetic nose., adding that their composer father, who died in 1990, “would have been fine with it as well.”
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