Posted on 11/30/2021 5:56:39 AM PST by Red Badger
BRADLEY Cooper revealed he was “held up at knifepoint” in New York City while on his way to pick up his 4-year-old daughter Lea from school.
While detailing the traumatic experience, the 46-year-old actor said he thought he was going to be asked for an autograph or photo, not have a knife shoved at him.
As this week’s guest on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast, Bradley shared that he quickly realized he’d gotten “way too comfortable” in NYC when he found himself being help up at knifepoint at a subway station.
Of the late 2019 incident, he said: “I used to walk around New York City all the time with these [headphones] on, this was pre-pandemic, and I was on the subway [at] 11:45 to pick up Lea downtown at Russian school.
“And I got held up at knifepoint. It was pretty insane. I realized I had gotten way, way too comfortable in the city."
Bradley said his “guard was down” as he hung out by the end of the subway platform, which is where he usually wait.
He continued: “I felt somebody coming up. I thought, ‘Oh they want to take a photo or something,’ and as I turned, I’m up against the post like it’s the French Connection or some s**t, and I turned, I looked down and I see a knife.”
In shock from it all, the A Star is Born actor recalled just thinking how the three-inches-long knife looked “nice,” like it had “some history,” before coming to terms with the situation he was in.
WHO
His 4-year-old daughter is at Russian School? Is that a language class or just the name of some school?
Talented guy.
This can’t happen to me! I’M A CELEBRITY!!
Guess he never heard of John Lennon
Former liberal?
At least John Lennon’s happened after dark.
Cooper never spouts his politics or shoves it down people’s throats.
I suspect he leans right if not outright conservative.
A NeoCon is Born..............
LOL, yup!
Surprised he didn’t say “Don’t you know who I am?”
Where was his gun?
Well Seth Rogan said it’s just called ‘living in a big city’.
Yet Yoko was right next to him and not one effing bullet!
-- WI persecutor /sarcasm
He gets held up at knifepoint. Lets see... Guy looked like a yute, short knife and Cooper turns and runs???? He’s a big guy and he turns and runs and finds some cops. But oh yes he took some pictures. Probably from behind. He just advertised to all criminals that he is a wimp and easy target. I have read of old ladies doing a better job of taking out the trash when confronted.
Liked him in American Sniper.
In his pants?..................
“I suspect he leans right if not outright conservative.”
HE’S A LEFTY. Was at the dem party’s biden HQ and a bona fide Dem. HOWEVER, I have buds at the Hollywood USO, and he’s been invited many times, he just does it. Also visited our troops in Iraq, years before American Sniper.
A return to NYC in the Seventies, where people of all stripes in all places expected to get mugged in broad daylight, it was so prevalent.
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