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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 Recalls Being Held At Knifepoint In A New York Subway Station: “My Guard Was Down”

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.

— BANG SHOWIZ

Photo: TPG News/Click Photos


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