Anderson Cooper Breaks Down During Emotional Conversation on Grief

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CNN anchor Anderson Cooper repeatedly choked up on Thursday as he shared his experiences with grief during a panel discussion about his podcast All There Is.

Speaking with colleague Audie Cornish at the On Air podcast festival, Cooper walked through how he decided to bring his own battles with grief over his mother, father, and brother‘s deaths to the public sphere. His father, writer Wyatt Emory Cooper, died in 1988 at 50; his brother Carter Cooper died in 1988 by suicide at 23; and his mother, socialite Gloria Vanderbilt, died in 2019 at 95.

American author and actor Wyatt Emory Cooper and heiress Gloria Vanderbilt Cooper sit with their sons, Carter (1965 - 1988) and Anderson Cooper as they play on a sofa in their home, Southampton, Long Island, New York, March 30, 1972. / Jack Robinson / Getty Images

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