Friday, Sep 2, 2022 • 2min
Introducing: All There Is with Anderson Cooper
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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 Gloria Vanderbilt. Going through her journals and keepsakes, as well as things left behind by his father and brother, Cooper begins a series of emotional and moving conversations about the people we lose, the things they leave behind, and how to live on - with loss, with laughter, and with love.
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Anderson Cooper
00:02
This is what always happens. I end up coming over here. I spend like hours going through stuff thinking I can throw stuff out and I end up throwing anything out. This is
Anderson Cooper
just before my son Sebastian was born earlier this year.Share
00:17
I sold
my mom's
apartment and had to finally go through the stuff she'd left behind when she died, Cisco. So here's the Telegram from Frank Sinatra
San Francisco International Airport
to Miss Gloria Vanderbilt
writes, “I'm on my way darling, I miss you and wish you were sharing the seat with me”.Share
00:35
Love the fellow on the white. That's kind of exactly what you would want. A Telegram from
Francis Albert Sinatra
to be. My mom was Gloria Vanderbilt
and lived a pretty epic life full of great loves and a lot of loss. And it turns out she saved pretty much everything so far.Share
00:54
I've discovered secret journals, thousands of photographs and things about her and my family. I never knew before and packed away in drawers and boxes. My mom left me hidden notes as a kind of guy through it all.
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01:08
Another note says, “Anderson blouse and skirt I was wearing when Carter died”. When my brother killed himself in front of her. This is what she was wearing.
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01:19
I didn't know who she had said this.
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01:23
With all the tragedies. My mom went through. She never asked, “why me why did this happen to me? ” She'd always ask why not me, why should me be exempt from the pain of living and losing and she was right.
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01:36
We all lose people we love. And yet when it happens to us and we're grieving, it feels like we're all alone. At least it does for me. We don't talk much about loss and grief, which is weird because they are among the most universal of human experiences.
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01:52
So how do we keep moving forward without forgetting the moments and memories and the people we miss?
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Speaker 2
01:58
When you lose a parent at a young age, it gives you this kind of urgency for life like, “This is it! ” And you don't take anything for granted.
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Anderson Cooper
02:05
You know, in my new podcast, I'll be talking with people whose insights and humor are helping me as I go through this grieving process that all of us will go go through at some point.
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Speaker 3
02:14
Pain is part of life. Just no two ways about it. Loss is part of life. There's no two ways about it. In fact I've met people who have not had much pain in their lives who haven't suffered much and they seem to be the more miserable people that I've ever met.
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Anderson Cooper
02:27
It's a podcast about the people we lose the things they leave behind and how we can live on with loss and with love l. All There Is, with me
Anderson Cooper
coming this fall.Share
Speaker 4
02:41
So Anderson are you and if I dire do you think like if I die?
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Anderson Cooper
02:47
No, I'm like when I die you're a when I dare.
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