The 38-year-old actor, who isn’t exactly open about his private life, was brutally honest in a recent interview with GQ magazine and even said that winning an Oscar would have meant nothing.
‘I watched him dying and I was there by his bed watching him, breathing with him, and then I saw his last breath and he was gone,” Cooper said of his father’s death two years ago.
Charles J Cooper, a former stockbroker, sadly lost his battle with lung cancer at the age of 71, and had been nursed by his famous son.
“I experienced the whole thing. And that was a watershed moment that I was privileged to experience. And it changed everything. Nothing has ever been the same since.
I watched him dying and I was there by his bed watching him, breathing with him, and then I saw his last breath and he was gone.
“Death became very real. And very tangible. Because my father – someone who had been in my life for 36 years is just f***ing gone,’ Cooper added.
As a result of his father’s death, ‘The Hangover’ star admitted that he wasn’t bothered about losing out at the 85th Academy Awards last weekend.
“I don’t want to win an Oscar. It would change nothing. Nothing,” he said.
“The things in my life that aren’t fulfilled would not be fulfilled. Career-wise, right now, it’s better that I don’t win one. I don’t want to win. I don’t.”
The full interview with Bradley Cooper can be seen in the April issue of GQ, which is out now.