All There Is with Anderson Cooper
Episodes
Ben Stiller: Facing His Past
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Stiller spent the last few years going through boxes of photos, letters, and recordings that his parents, the famous comedy duo known as "Still...
Nick Cave: Grief’s Jagged Edges
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Musician Nick Cave has experienced the death of two of his sons. He tells Anderson how, over time, these losses have changed his relationship with the...
Tig Notaro: Finding What Matters
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Comedian Tig Notaro recently witnessed the death of her friend, poet Andrea Gibson, after a years-long battle with cancer. Being by Andrea's bedside w...
Kenny Chesney
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Country superstar Kenny Chesney reflects on the loss of friends and a beloved dog. He and Anderson also share their connection to a family who experie...
Ken Burns' History With Grief
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns has been called “America’s biographer,” but in this moving conversation, he reveals how his own history has been...
Luke Bryan: Grief, Faith, and Music
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Luke Bryan is one of country music’s biggest stars. He's also faced great loss. In this personal and revealing conversation with Anderson, Luke shar...
Coming Back To Life
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode of the podcast, Anderson reports from Rome following the death of Pope Francis, and speaks to religion professor Elaine Pagels...
Love Is What Survives
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the season three finale, Anderson plays some of the more than 6000 voicemails he has received from podcast listeners about what they have learned i...
Doris Kearns Goodwin
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pulitzer Prize winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin knows what it’s like to face the past. She talks with Anderson about how Abraham Lincoln and o...
David & Amy Sedaris
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David and his sister Amy Sedaris have lived through the deaths of their mother, father and sister, and most recently, Amy’s pet rabbit. They join An...
A Message from Anderson
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Anderson checks in with an update about the podcast and invites listeners to call the All There Is voicemail.  Visit the All There Is online grief...
Tyler Perry: Letting Go
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week marks 15 years since actor and filmmaker Tyler Perry lost his beloved mother, Willie Maxine Perry, at 64 years old. Tyler shares with Anders...
Remembering Eddie Van Halen
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Before they co-founded one of the most successful rock bands in history, Alex and Eddie Van Halen were two kid brothers with a love of music. In an em...
Revisiting Ashley Judd: Grief, Love and Naomi
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Naomi Judd died by suicide in 2022, after a long struggle with mental illness, her daughter Ashley found her. In this deeply moving, revealing, a...
Andrew Sullivan: What Suffering Reveals
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Author Andrew Sullivan grew up in Britain seeing his mom struggle with mental illness. He came to America as a young gay man and was named editor of T...
Will Reeve: The Long Journey Into Grief
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
America knew actor Christopher Reeve as Superman, but to Will Reeve, now an ABC News correspondent, he was “Dad.” Will was 12 years old when his f...
Irene Weiss: The Soul Never Forgets
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do you live with loss that is beyond comprehension? When Irene Weiss was 13 years old she and her family were deported to Auschwitz. She and her o...
Creating A Companionship With Grief
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After suppressing grief for decades, Anderson reached out earlier this year to psychotherapist and author Francis Weller to ask for help. In this very...
Whoopi Goldberg: Why Did Y’all Leave Me?
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Whoopi Goldberg sits down with Anderson for a candid and moving conversation about the life and deaths of her mother Emma Johnson and her brother Clyd...
Andrew Garfield’s Grief
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Garfield's mother Lynne died from pancreatic cancer in 2019. In this deeply moving and emotional episode Andrew talks with Anderson about how g...
Season 3: All There Is
05 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Grief never goes away but we can learn to live with it and learn from it. In Season 3 of All There Is, Anderson Cooper continues his deeply personal j...
Sharing Our Grief
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode, the season finale, is a reminder that none of us is alone in our grief. Anderson shares some of the thousands of extraordinarily moving ...
A Son’s Struggle, A Father’s Grief
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie Shelin was an exceptionally bright child who worked hard for years to keep the dark thoughts in his head from consuming him. In this moving co...
Mama Shu: Turning Loss Into Love
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Shamayim Harris, known in Detroit as Mama Shu, knows all too well the pain of loss. In 2007 her 2-year-old son Jakobi Ra was killed in a hit and run a...
Nicole Chung: Carrying Memories Alone
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When best-selling author Nicole Chung’s adoptive parents died, she felt all alone. Her family had unraveled, and there was no one else who remembere...
Ashley Judd: Grief, Love and Naomi
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Naomi Judd died by suicide in 2022, after a long struggle with mental illness, her daughter Ashley found her. In this deeply moving, revealing, a...
Revisiting Stephen Colbert: Grateful for Grief
27 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The podcast is taking a short break, new episodes of All There Is will return January 10th. In the meantime, we are sharing Anderson's powerful conver...
Love, Loss and Parenting
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Amanda Petrusich, a talented writer for The New Yorker who often covers music, lost her husband, Bret Stetka, suddenly in 2022. Their daughter, Nico, ...
The Greatest Loss
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Katie Talman, was grieving an unimaginable loss when she left a message for Anderson Cooper, one of more than a thousand voicemails he received from p...
A President’s Grief
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“You gotta come home, there's been an accident.” It was 1972 when Joe Biden heard the news that changed his life forever: his wife Neilia and 13-m...
Facing Our Grief
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Grief doesn’t just go away, no matter how hard we may want it to. So how can we live with it and learn from it? These are the questions Anderson Coo...
Season 2: All There Is
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Do we ever move on from grief, or do we just learn to live with it? In Season 2 of All There Is, Anderson Cooper continues his deeply personal journey...
When Anderson Met Audie
18 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Anderson is pleased to present the first episode of Audie Cornish's new podcast: The Assignment... but first a conversation on the intimacy of podcast...
You Are Not Alone
02 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Anderson shares poignant and profound messages from listeners and reflects on the conversations he's had during the first season of the podcast. To le...
Live Your Beautiful Life, Baby
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Writer and poet Elizabeth Alexander talks with Anderson about how she and her two children coped with the sudden death of her husband, Ficre, ten year...
Laurie Anderson: The Release Of Love
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Artist and composer Laurie Anderson reflects on the death of her husband, rock legend Lou Reed and also her beloved dog Lolabelle. She talks with Ande...
Anticipatory Grief
12 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Filmmaker Kirsten Johnson lost her mother to Alzheimer's in 2007, now her father has dementia, and is disappearing before her eyes. As Kirsten struggl...
Molly Shannon’s Unspeakable Loss
05 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When Molly Shannon was four, her mother, baby sister and cousin were killed in a car crash. Her father was at the wheel. Growing up, few people ever s...
Sadness Isn’t An Enemy
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this deeply personal episode, Anderson reflects on the suicide of his brother, Carter, and the impact that loss still has on his life today. Anders...
Stephen Colbert: Grateful for Grief
21 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Can we learn to love the things we most wish had never happened? Can we really become grateful for grief? Heartbreak? The deaths of loved ones? Stephe...
Facing What’s Left Behind
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alone in his late mother, Gloria Vanderbilt’s apartment, Anderson begins recording his thoughts and memories as he packs up her things. He makes som...
Introducing: All There Is with Anderson Cooper
02 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Anderson Cooper takes us on a deeply personal exploration of loss and grief. He starts recording while packing up the apartment of his late mother Glo...