Sandra Bullock’s partner Bryan Randall has died at the age of 57.
The photographer’s family revealed the sad news in a statement, explaining that he died on August 5, following a lengthy battle with ALS – a type of motor neurone disease.
‘It is with great sadness that we share that on August 5, Bryan Randall passed away peacefully after a three-year battle with ALS,’ they said in the message, shared with People Magazine.
‘Bryan chose early to keep his journey with ALS private and those of us who cared for him did our best to honour his request.
We are immensely grateful to the tireless doctors who navigated the landscape of this illness with us and to the astounding nurses who became our roommates, often sacrificing their own families to be with ours.’
They added: ‘At this time we ask for privacy to grieve and to come to terms with the impossibility of saying goodbye to Bryan.’
Sandra Bullock’s partner Bryan Randall, a talented photographer and former model, met Bullock at the beginning of 2015 – when he photographed her son’s birthday party.
They became close before making their relationship public later that year and moved in together in 2016.
Although they kept much of their romance behind closed doors, the Speed actress couldn’t help but praise how her late beau stepped up for her children, Louis and Laila.
‘I’m a bulldozer. My life was already on the track and here’s this beautiful human being who doesn’t want anything to do with my life, but the right human being to be there,’ she told Jada Pinkett Smith during a candid Red Table Talk interview.
‘He’s the example that I would want my children to have. I have a partner who’s very Christian and there are two different ways of looking at things.