Bryan Randall, the model turned photographer who was quietly seeing Sandra Bullock for the past eight years, sadly died over the weekend at the age of 57.
“It is with great sadness that we share that on Aug. 5, Bryan Randall passed away peacefully after a three-year battle with ALS,” his family wrote in a statement to People. “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.”
“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,” the statement continued. The family indicated that those wishing to make a donation in his memory should direct their funds toward the ALS Association and the Massachusetts General Hospital.
NEW YORK, NY – JUNE 05: Sandra Bullock and Bryan Randall are seen at ‘Oceans 8’ World Premiere on June 5, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Jackson Lee/GC Images)Jackson Lee
Bullock and Randall kept their relationship mostly private, though she opened up about their dynamic together during an appearance on Red Table Talk, telling the hosts, “I have a partner who’s very Christian, and there are two different ways of looking at things. I don’t always agree with him, and he doesn’t always agree with me. But he is an example even when I don’t agree with him.”
On the topic of marriage she said, “I don’t need a paper to be a devoted partner and 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.” She also called him the “love of [her] life” and called their relationship “the best thing ever.” Bullock has yet to make a statement on Bryan’s passing, though she did reveal a year ago that she was on a break from acting.
