Sandra Bullock’s partner Bryan Randall dies at 57 after private ALS battle
Sandra Bullock‘s longtime partner Bryan Randall died on Saturday after a three-year battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). He was 57.
In a statement, Randall’s family announced his death over the weekend.
“It is with great sadness that we share that on Aug. 5, Bryan Randall passed away peacefully after a three-year battle with ALS,” the statement reads. “Bryan chose early to keep his journey with ALS private and those of us who cared for him did our best to honor his request.”
ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a rare neurodegenerative disease that progressively paralyzes a person as a result of nerve cell death in the brain and spinal cord. ALS patients will lose the ability to walk, talk, eat, swallow and eventually breathe. There is no cure.
“We are immensely grateful to the tireless doctors who navigated the landscape of this illness with us and to the astounding nurses who became our roommates, often sacrificing their own families to be with ours,” the statement continues. “At this time we ask for privacy to grieve and to come to terms with the impossibility of saying goodbye to Bryan.”
The statement was signed, “His Loving Family.”
Bullock’s sister, Gesine Bullock-Brado, praised the Oscar-winning actor for being a caretaker to Randall.
“ALS is a cruel disease but there is some comfort in knowing he had the best of caretakers in my amazing sister and the band of nurses she assembled who helped her look after him in their home,” she wrote.
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