Anderson Cooper recalls how his mother Gloria Vanderbilt was haunted by his brother Carter's suicide

Anderson Cooper has opened up about how his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, was haunted by his older brother's suicide up until the day she died, saying she could never accept the loss. Anderon Cooper, 55, opened up about his brother Carter Cooper's suicide in 1988 and how it affected their mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, during an interview with Christiane Amanpour A 23-year-old Carter jumped to his death from the family's penthouse apartment as his mother begged him to get off the ledge. Take a listen to his profound words on loss: pic.twitter.com/nGBzRFqwbr — Christiane Amanpour October 31, 2022 'My mom had experienced great losses throughout her life, and that really shaped the course of her life,' Cooper told Amanpour Carter's suicide came ten years after their father, Wyatt Cooper, died, and Cooper shared that he was unable to articulate his grief for years 'My mom had experienced great losses throughout her life, and that really shaped the course of her life,' he told Amanpour. 'She could never get to a place where she could accept the death, but she got to a place where she could continue to live,' Cooper said of his mother's grief after Carter's suicide The journalist later suffered the loss of his beloved nanny, May McLinden, in 2014, and his mother, Gloria, who died at age 95 in 2019 The journalist welcomed his two-year-old son, Wyatt Morgan, via surrogate on April 27, 2020, and named after him after his father.