Andy Cohen Reveals Emotional Story About Anderson Cooper and His Late Mom, Gloria Vanderbilt

Andy Cohen recently revealed an emotional story about Anderson Cooper and his late mom, Gloria […]

June 21, 2019, 3:46pm

Andy Cohen recently revealed an emotional story about Anderson Cooper and his late mom, Gloria Vanderbilt.

Cooper and Cohen are very close friends, and the Watch What Happens Live host recently spoke about the time that Cooper and Vanderbilt both came on his show together.

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“When they were on my show, he held her hand for almost the whole show,” Cohen told PEOPLE at a red carpet and talk event for his Bravo talk show’s 10th-anniversary celebration.

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Happy 95th Birthday to my mom, @gloriavanderbilt. Still painting everyday @gloriavanderbiltstudio. Still dreaming and creating, still believing the next great love is right around the corner. Who knows? Maybe she is right? I love you, Mom.

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“And I remember being very moved by that,” he added. “And I got a chance to see her last week with him, and there he was holding her hand, and it just fills my heart up to think about.”

“I think how sweet — every time I saw her with Anderson, he always held her hand, which really touched me,” Cohen added.

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In her final week my mom liked me to play a video of Peggy Lee on YouTube singing, “Is That All Their Is?” We’d hold hands and sing the chorus, pretending we were dancing. “Is that all there is, is that all there is If that’s all there is my friends, then let’s keep dancing Let’s break out the booze and have a ball If that’s all there is.” My mom would giggle while singing, “it’s so Marvelous…” she’d say, with a sound of delight, and mischief, knowing that she was on the cusp of discovering if that really is all there is.

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Vanderbilt passed away this week, after being diagnosed with stomach cancer earlier in the month. Following her death, Cooper took to Instagram to memorialize his mother, sharing a series of photos of her and writing a heartfelt caption.

“In the end, after all else is stripped away, there is only love. My mom believed in love more than anyone,” he wrote. “It was her guide, her solace, it’s what drove her, and in her final moments, it is what surrounded her. “i love you, you know that,” she would say to me, and i did, i knew it from the moment i was born, and i will know it till the moment i die. It was her greatest gift to me.”