Three years after the death of her partner due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), American actress Sandra Bullock has broken her silence on what it has meant for her to live with this disease and, finally, to lose her life partner, photographer Bryan Randall. In a conversation on the podcast Smartless, hosted by fellow actors Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, and Will Arnett, Bullock explained that her partner explicitly asked her not to make the illness public. "I wasn't allowed to talk about it. That's what he asked of me, and that's what I did," recalls the Oscar winner for The Blind Side (2009). Although she assures that she understands Randall's request, she admits that having to carry the diagnosis in silence isolated her, especially during the covid pandemic, when she had to be particularly attentive to her children, Louis and Laila.