Bradley Cooper Recalls Being Held At Knifepoint In A New York Subway Station: “My Guard Was Down”
The pretty insane incident happened pre-pandemic when the 'A Star is Born' star was with his four-year-old daughter Lea.
Bradley Cooper's guard was down when he was threatened at knifepoint in New York City.
The 46-year-old actor was en route to collect his four-year-old daughter Lea — whom he shares with ex-girlfriend Irina Shayk — when the terrifying incident occurred, and Bradley admits that the situation was pretty insane .
Speaking on the Armchair Expert podcast, Bradley shared: I used to walk around New York City all the time with these [headphones] on — this was pre-pandemic — I was on the subway [at] 11:45 to pick Lea downtown at Russian school and I got held up at knifepoint.
It was pretty insane. I realised I had gotten way, way too comfortable in the city. My guard was down … I was all the way at the end of the subway.
Innately, I would just go all the way down to the end. I felt somebody coming up. I thought, oh they want to take a photo or something. As I turned, I’m up against the post like it’s the French Connection or some s***, and I turned. I looked down and I see a knife.
The A Star is Born star recalled the knife being almost three inches long.
He joked: I have my headphones on the whole time. I can’t hear anything. I’m just listening to music. So it’s scored, the whole thing was scored.
I can’t remember [what I was listening to]. I look up, I see the person’s eyes, and I’m taken by how young they are.
Bradley then started running towards an exit in a bid to escape.
He explained: I jumped over the turnstile, hid around the white, tiled entrance to the subway [and] took my phone out. He jumped over, running away.
I took a photo of him. Then I chased him up the stairs. He started running up 7th Avenue. I took two more photographs of him.
I ran down two police officers in an SUV, showed them the photograph and I’m, like, talking to them, and the guy kept saying - it was so interesting - he’s like, ‘Are you stabbed?’ I was like, ‘No, no.’ He was like, ‘Check to see if you’re stabbed.’ What happens is people get stabbed and they’re in shock.
I looked to see if he was right. … And then I got back on the subway and picked up my daughter.
Bradley's new film, Guillermo del Toro's Nightmare Alley, opens in Singapore cinemas on Jan 27.
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