Actress Sandra Bullock’s partner Bryan Randall died after a private battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
On Monday, Randall’s family shared a statement with People exclusively following his death.
“It is with great sadness that we share that on Aug. 5, Bryan Randall passed away peacefully after a three-year battle with ALS. 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,” they said.
His family also expressed its gratitude for “the tireless doctors who navigated the landscape of this illness” with them 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,” the statement concluded.
Randall was 57 years old.
In 2021, Bullock, 59, gushed over her beau, whom she had been with since 2015, in an interview on Red Table Talk with actress Jada Pinkett Smith and explained why she didn’t feel the need to marry him.
“I am someone who went through the divorce process. I found the love of my life. We share two beautiful children – three children, his older daughter,” Bullock said, calling her relationship “the best thing ever.”
She added, “So, I don’t want to say do it like I do it, but I don’t need a paper to be a devoted partner and a devoted mother.”
“I don’t need to be told to be ever-present in the hardest of times. I don’t need to be told to weather a storm with a good man,” Bullock continued.
The “Miss Congeniality” actress also encouraged others with a similar belief on marriage to “think about what kind of parent he would be” and “what kind of parent you would be.”
“Would you both be great parents to those children even if you didn’t make it as a couple?” she asked.
