Anderson Cooper
speaker
1,586 appearances
31 recordings
10 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 17 Sep
Anderson Cooper’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We get voicemails from thousands of people about their grief experiences.
There's a whole range of emotions over death that are completely understandable.
And after somebody's died, everybody's great.
But in reality, some people were not so great in one's life.
Talking about your grandfather's death, you wrote, it's a very weird thing when you're a kid and the first experience you have of death is glee and relief and emptiness.
It's over.
Another early experience you had with death, the boy you went to the prom with, Ray Butterfield.
You said Ray had been riding home on his motorcycle and a drunk driver had hit him.
I'll never recover from seeing my 17-year-old prom date with our prom picture in his pocket in that casket with the lost look of all of his friends standing by.
Never.
Never.
I just knew.
I don't think many people maybe know this about you or all that you have been through, but just probably from afar, somebody looking at you would think you have had this sort of charmed life and go from one fabulous thing to another.
My mom, she developed this belief that she had inside a rock-hard diamond that nothing could get at and nothing could crack.
It was like a pearl of great value that she kept protected inside.
And she had that throughout her life.
And so even when my brother died,
I knew that she would survive it and she didn't survive it like a brassy, you know, cabaret singer, like tough as nails.
She was the most vulnerable person I've ever met and she remained vulnerable.
And I realize now what that was such an extraordinary strength of hers.
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