Bradley Cooper recalled a traumatic experience he had in the New York subway in 2019 when he was going to pick up his daughter, Lea. “I used to walk around New York all the time – before the pandemic – I was on the subway at 11:45 am to pick up Léa in town, at the Russian school and I was held up by a knife. “, Recalled the actor of 46 years, Monday, November 29, in an episode of the podcast” Armchair Expert “, hosted by Dax Shepard.
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“I looked down and saw a knife”
The actor described the event as “pretty crazy”. “I realized I was much, much too comfortable in the city,” he explained. “I had let my guard down… I was at the end of the metro. Innocently, I just wanted to take it to the end of the line. I felt someone coming. I thought, ‘Oh, they want to take a picture or something’. When I turned around I found myself against the post like in ” The French Connection ” or whatever, and I turned around. I looked down and saw a knife, “said the” A star is born “star. Having had time to visualize the weapon, he even specified that it must have been nearly ten centimeters long.
“I just started running”
Headphones on, he says he couldn’t hear anything. He was, however, surprised at the young age of the threatening person when he saw her eyes. Instinctively, Bradley Cooper explains rushing for the exit. “I just started running. I jumped over the turnstile, hid around the metro entrance and took out my phone, ”he said. The individual then began to flee in turn. After chasing him down the stairs, the actor clarified that he managed to take two photos of him.
Following this incident which could have taken a tragic turn, Bradley Cooper motioned to two police officers to show them the pictures of the culprit. One of them kept asking him if he had been stabbed. Even though he had replied in the negative, the police officer still asked him to check. “What is happening is people are stabbed and are in shock. I looked to see if he was right. It was crazy. Then I went back to the metro and picked up my daughter, ”he concludes. As if nothing had happened.
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