Sandra Bullock Opens Up for the First Time on ALS Death of Partner Bryan Randall: ‘My Person Left A Lot Earlier Than the Body Left’

Sandra Bullock is opening up about the death of her late partner Bryan Randall.

The “Practical Magic 2” star made the rare remarks about her private life during an appearance on the Smartless podcast hosted by Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett.

Randall, a photographer, battled ALS before dying on Aug. 5, 2023 at the age of 57. He and Bullock had been together eight years at the time of his death.

Bullock said Randall asked her to keep his diagnosis a secret. “He asked me not to share. I know why he asked me not to,” Bullock said (via E! News.). “My sister [Gesine Bullock-Prado] was the only one who knew for a while.”

She admitted that the secrecy “isolated me in the process.”

“My sister was the only one who knew for a while,” Bullock explained. “At first I go, ‘Oh, I can handle that. I can be quiet.’”

However, caring for Randall and raising her two young kids during the Covid pandemic became “a trifecta that was pretty dark,” Bullock said.

She eventually shared what was going on with friends Jennifer Aniston and Bateman’s wife, Amanda. “I think where he was in his journey, both physically and mentally, I started grieving Bryan four years before he passed,” Bullock said. “There was something that had shifted.”

Bullock said Randall was sick for at least half of the eight years they were together. “My person left a lot earlier than the body left,” she said. “I don’t think I ever dealt with that until after he passed, because you’re just on this treadmill.”

Bullock and Randall reportedly started dating in January 2015 after she hired him to photograph her son Louis’ fifth birthday party. They made their red-carpet debut 10 months later at the “Our Brand is Crisis” premiere in Los Angeles.

“Bryan chose to keep his journey with ALS private and those of us who cared for him did our best to honor his request,” Randall’s family said in a statement following his passing. “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. At this time we ask for privacy to grieve and to come to terms with the impossibility of saying goodbye to Bryan.”