zenduck.me: Bryan Randall Sandra Bullocks partner dies at age 57

Bryan Randall, who has been the boyfriend of actress Sandra Bullock for eight years, has died at the age of 57. His death took place on Saturday, August 5, but it was not until Monday when it was made public through a statement by the family and disseminated by People magazine. “It is with great sadness that we share that on August 5 Bryan Randall passed away peacefully after a three-year battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Bryan decided to keep his life with ALS private, and all of us who cared for him did everything we could to comply with his request.”

Signed by “his beloved family”, the words are of thanks and mourning. “We are immensely grateful to the tireless doctors who lived through her illness alongside us, and to the amazing nurses who became our roommates, sometimes sacrificing their own families to be with us. At this time, we ask for privacy to grieve and to accept how impossible it is to say goodbye to Bryan,” they write. To those who want to honor Randall’s memory, the family has asked for donations to ALS associations and Massachusetts General Hospital.

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Bullock, 59, and Randall, 57, had been in a low-key relationship for years and had never thought about getting married, as she herself had commented in an interview. In 2018 there were wedding rumors that quickly died down. She had already been married, to Jesse James, between 2005 and 2010. “I am a person who has gone through divorce proceedings. I have found the love of my life. We share two beautiful children, three, with his eldest daughter [Skylar, now an adult, from a previous relationship]. It’s the best thing in the world,” he said in December 2021 on a television program. “I don’t want to tell anyone to do it my way, but I don’t need a role to be a devoted couple and a devoted mother.” Then, she claimed that Randall was “an example”, even when they disagreed on something, that he helped her to have other points of view and to rethink facets of her motherhood.

Sandra Bullock adopted her oldest son, Louis, in early 2010, when the little boy was just over three months old; and his daughter, Laila, in 2015. While married to James, they both began the adoption process, which lasted more than four years. In January of that 2010 Louis came into their lives, but they decided to keep the secret until the Oscars of that year, to which Bullock was nominated for The Blind Side and that, finally, won. Just 10 days after winning the award, the couple announced they were separating following James’ infidelity. Weeks later, she introduced Louis to the world explaining that she had finished the adoption process as a single mother.

It was a few years later when Randall, a former model turned photographer, joined their lives and met at a photo shoot for Louis’ birthday in January 2015. Together they attended some premieres, although without posing on the red carpets, and they could also be seen together at the wedding of Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux in August of that year. Then she was waiting for the arrival of her second daughter, which he welcomed with joy. They fit in perfectly and soon began living together.

Bullock decided to curb his career for his children and family. Since Louis came into his life, he has barely made a dozen films, some of them with very short appearances. In one of the few interviews he gives — he’s not too interested in his star status, fame, or flashlights — in this case with InStyle magazine, Bullock saidthat Randall also loved children. “He’s super friendly. For the kids he’s number one and I’m number two, and I understand because he’s more fun than me and always gives them better prizes,” he joked. “He’s involved with her schoolwork, he goes to all the kids’ birthday parties and he’s always by Sandy’s side with whatever she needs,” a source close to them said early in their relationship. “They’ve built a great life together and the kids are the centerpiece.”