From 2016: Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt share their bond

and here's the first movie of little Gloria herself heightened by the curious crowd she please into a raps car she was born into one of America's wealthiest families Gloria Vanderbilt is going on 13 now and quite a sports enthusiast and from the beginning the world was fascinated by the trials travails and adventures of glamorous Gloria Vanderbilt her sensationalized childhood for careers as an actress artists bring out stretch and lots of colors and jeans designer it's a shame to call her jeans did you always have a sense that the whole world seemed to be watching everything you did never I still don't I really do never read anything about myself I do look at the picture though cuz I'm very vain I just think the public perception of her is very different than the person I actually know and she's 92 now she been making headlines from the time she was born and I kind of wanted to reveal the person that I know and the person that she really is your campaign said with her son 48 year old CNN anchor and 60 minutes correspondent Anderson Cooper realized there were many things that neither of them actually knew about the other so we decided to kind of on her 91st birthday to change the conversation that we have and the way we talked and we are we did it all by email I think we're both at a place where you know both of us didn't want to leave anything on set now those emails are being released in a new book my mom has lived many different lives and is sort of inhabited many different skins along with an HBO documentary nothing left unsaid which debuts this coming Saturday both explore the loving and occasionally bickering relationship between mother and son take Gloria's last-minute tendency to invite guests to dinner here at Anderson's Manhattan house well I haven't done it that much I know one of the ways that we're different is that you know my mom is incredibly creative and but she's not a planner I plan everything that's why I had this deep worry line because I and I sit there journeying when I can't sleep and I plan one moment to the next which drives me bananas these will be fascinating terrain for our secrets it's been a revealing experience for both of them so this was precipitated by the fact that you've been going through your mom's stuff and you have a lot of questions about why she kept certain things and what those things meant you know I'd find letters from Howard Hughes to my mom or Leopold Stokowski a famous conductor and my mom was married to and you know I started asking her about it and this is what he looked like when you first met I know I'm for a week and I ride three weeks late really how old were you joining did any of your friends think it was weird I don't know why did you save all these things I believe everybody should because it gives you a frame of reference and it gives me a sense of knowing who I was then who I became Who I am now it gives one a sense of of time in a sense of one's own history so to speak and what a history her father Reginald Vanderbilt whose family forged a shipping and railroad Empire died in 1925 when Gloria was just a toddler at 10 she was dubbed the poor little rich girl when her aunt fought her mother for custody and won in part because it was alleged that Gloria's mother had been in a lesbian relationship I didn't never heard the word lesbian I didn't know what it meant and I became terrified that I would to become like that because it was then considered something that was a sin and a crime and something that was very terrible you know Anderson you you say that you held off telling your mother that you were gay until you were actually out of college I mean I came out of high school to my friends part of it in the back of my mind was I had heard that my grandmother had been accused of being a lesbian and I'd known that as a child that had affected my mom but I also knew that deep down my mom would be fine with it because she had gay friends who were always in our house growing up indeed it was fine and in the spirit of nothing left unsaid the to delve into that most private of personal experiences as in this exchange in the book perhaps the only thing more embarrassing and hearing about your sex life was discovering it was more interesting than my own well I do think it's important to have a sense of humor about sex sometimes unable to sleep I can't love us instead of sheep and there were plenty including Frank Sinatra but it was Wyatt Cooper Vanderbilt's fourth and last husband and father of Anderson and his brother Carter whom Gloria considers the love of her life he was a writer editor and former actor they met at a dinner party I just knew we were going to be very important to each other you know this is one of everything I did me with Wyatt it's so beautiful lighting is so gray hair it gets great light this is such a sweet yeah Valentine's card my dad gave to me and and then he used to do a lot of doodles of our family but the Cooper family was shattered when Wyatt died of heart disease in 1978 at age 50 for me it certainly changed who I was I think the person I was before was a lot more sort of interesting and outgoing I became probably much more introverted and very concerned about what catastrophe was going to happen next and it made me much more of an adult it's nice to see them side by side yes it is the most dramatic scenes in the documentary come during a visit to the graves of Wyatt and Carter Cooper Gloria's son and Anderson's older brother who died in 1988 by jumping from a balcony while his mother pleaded with him not to do it I haven't cried since his life does not a tear left I love to talk about him and if it brings him alive it brings him close and it helps me to sort of share how I felt about him feel about him the yearning the grief for the lost places and Gloria Vanderbilt and Anderson Cooper say they made a glib rate decision to share these surprisingly intimate moments with the whole world I'm asking people tell me their story I feel like I should tell part of my story and to the extent that it encourages other people to change the relationship they have particularly with an aging parent I think then why not you made no bones in either the documentary or the movie about the fact that you realize this is you know coming to the final stages of your lawyer didn't what's good not necessarily meaning what what's going through your mind now at this time of your life well I think something wonderful is going to happen maybe tomorrow and I like to think maybe sooner yeah my mom was the most sort of youthful and optimistic person I know she still believes there's like a guy waiting on a boat in the South of France yeah a yacht for her or just around the corner there's going to be some incredible new experience and she makes me believe it as well

Channel: CBS Sunday Morning

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Keywords: video, cbs, news, Anderson, Cooper, Vanderbilt

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Length: 8min 48sec (528 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 17 2019