Anderson Cooper is now a New 12 months’s Eve staple, however he truly spent years hating the vacation.
Through the Tuesday, Dec. 31, broadcast of New 12 months’s Eve Stay with Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen on CNN, Cooper, 57, revealed the private cause behind his prior emotions towards New 12 months’s Eve celebrations.
Forward of the present’s in memoriam section, the journalist mentioned that New 12 months’s Eve “is an evening that is at all times been arduous” for him.
“There’s loads of people who’re watching tonight who might not be out at some celebration … you is likely to be alone or simply with someone else you’re keen on in your room or simply by your self,” he started.
Cooper continued, “I simply wish to say that New 12 months’s Eve is an evening that is at all times been arduous for me. My dad died 5 days after the brand new yr, he died Jan. 5, in 1978. And I keep in mind being 10 years previous and watching New 12 months’s Eve celebrations that New Years, 5 days earlier than he died, being crammed with concern and feeling very a lot alone.”
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Cooper’s father died of surgical problems. In a 2023 essay for CNN, Cooper mentioned that regardless of experiencing a number of important losses in his lifetime he “by no means actually grieved” till he devoted a complete season of his All There Is podcast to grief.
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The 60 Minutes correspondent went on to share that he first began engaged on the vacation “as a result of I hated New 12 months’s Eve due to that and I wished to simply work on it.”
Cooper has been internet hosting New 12 months’s Stay since 2002, and he has grown to “get pleasure from” the annual occasion.
“I’ve come to get pleasure from being with Andy. And I’ve come additionally to get pleasure from being with all of you who’re perhaps watching alone or who’re perhaps grieving and never trying ahead to the brand new yr or haven’t had a very good yr,” he mentioned.
“And I simply need you to know that in all this merriment and all this rain … you aren’t alone tonight,” Anderson concluded. “I’m with you, we’re with you. we see you and we welcome you and we’re glad you are spending the evening with us.”
