Bradley Cooper has opened up and revealed he “wouldn’t be alive” if it wasn’t for his six-year-old daughter.
The actor shares daughter Lea De Seine with his ex-girlfriend Irina Shayk.
Their first and only child was born in March 2017.
Speaking on Dax Shepard’s podcast Armchair Expert, Bradley confessed: “I’m not sure I’d be alive if I wasn’t a dad.”
Speaking on his life before becoming a dad, the director admitted: “I just needed someone to say, ‘We’re gonna drop this massive anchor’, and I’m like, ‘Why? We’re speeding. We just got an upgrade on the boat, and I know where the wind is coming in.'”
“And they’re like, ‘No, there’s a tsunami coming, and you need an anchor and we’re gonna drop it. This is going to dictate everything you do from now on.'”
However, the 49-year-old revealed that it hasn’t always been smooth sailing with his daughter and that he did struggle during Lea’s first months.
Bradley added that parents say to him, “I would die in a second for my kid” and he struggled to relate to that.
The director got candid and admitted: “The first eight months, I was like, ‘I don’t even know if I really love the kid, it’s dope. It’s cool.'”
Bradley continued: “And then all of a sudden it’s like no question. … Your DNA is going to tell you there’s something more important than you.”
The Oscar-nominee explained that he wants his daughter to “have as much foundation as she can.”
He added: “I think about how my relationship with my daughter impacts her growth and the journey she’s gonna be on. The least amount of damage I can do to my daughter — please let me work on myself.”
