Anderson Cooper Shares New Pics of Son, Says Father's Day Was 'The Day I Avoided'
etonline.comAnderson Cooper has a new perspective on Father’s Day! On Sunday, the CNN anchor shared a series of new pictures featuring him and his 2-year-old son, Wyatt, and got candid about celebrating the holiday, although his father is no longer living. “For much of my life, Father’s Day was the day i avoided, pretending it didn’t exist, or that i’d forgotten what day it was,” the host wrote next to a series of pictures of Wyatt eating ice cream while sitting on his shoulders. “The pain of remembering was just too great.
The loss of my dad, who died when i was ten, was so painful, and still is at times. But today I celebrated Father’s Day, remembering my dad, Wyatt, with little Wyatt and Sebastian and their Papa, Benjamin.
I can’t believe how lucky I am.” A post shared by Anderson Cooper (@andersoncooper)Cooper’s father, Wyatt Cooper, died at the age of 50, during open heart surgery when Cooper was 10.
In addition to Wyatt, who is named after his father, Cooper and his ex, Benjamin Maisani, share a 4-month-old son, Sebastian.
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