Sandra Bullock put her Hollywood career on pause to care for her critically ill boyfriend Bryan Randall, who passed away over the weekend after a three-year battle with ALS, sources told Pvnew.
When the actress stepped onto the red carpet alongside co-star Channing Tatum at the premiere of their movie “The Lost City” in March 2022 — without Randall by her side — few had a clue as to what was going on behind the scenes.
Tatum is believed to have been among a small group aware that Randall, a photographer, was suffering from the cruel degenerative disease, Pvnew is told.
Since then, Bullock has been seen only a handful of times in public.
While promoting the comedy, Bullock — who called Randall, 57, “the love of my life” — revealed that she was going to take time off.
“I want to be at home. I’m not doing anyone any favors who’s investing in a project if I’m saying, ‘I just want to be at home,'” she told CBS Sunday Morning. “‘Cause I was always running, I was always running to the next thing. I just want to be present and responsible for one thing.”
She confirmed to reporter Tracy Smith that “The Lost City” would be her last film for a while, adding, “And I don’t know what ‘a while’ is. I don’t know what that is.”
A top Hollywood producer told Pvnew: “I don’t think people knew that Sandra actually took off to care for Bryan.”
Calling the star “beloved” in Hollywood, the producer said: “I’m gutted for her.”
The strain was etched on Bullock’s face when she was last seen in public in April, as she joined her longtime agent, Kevin Huvane of CAA, for dinner at Blue Ribbon in Soho.
Wearing no makeup, Bullock looked exhausted and close to tears as Huvane kept his arm around her.
“I know that her agents have been extremely protective of her,” a CAA-connected source told Pvnew. “No one said a word.”
Bullock first met Randall after hiring him to take photographs at a birthday party for her son Louis, now 13, in 2015. They went public as a couple in October of that year, at the premiere of her movie “Our Brand is Crisis.”
The actress had not been in a serious relationship since her bitter split from her cheating ex-husband, Jesse James, in 2010 — the same year she adopted Louis.
She later told People that although she first intended to raise him with James, she instead found herself filing for divorce.“
I will be adopting as a single parent,” Bullock said. “Anything else [as far as James’ involvement] will be day by day.”
Louis, as well as Bullock’s 11-year-old daughter Laila, who she adopted in 2015, are believed to have called Randall “Dad,” according to the Daily Mail. The publication also reported that the couple tied the knot in an unofficial ceremony in December 2017 at French financier Arpaud Busson’s Three Bees Villa on Harbor Island in the Bahamas.
Although Randall was believed to have spent time in Bullock’s Malibu home, he was mainly cared for at her Beverly Hills home, with a team of nurses in place.
“The relationship was absolutely strained by it, and it was really hard for the children,” a source told the Daily Mail.
During Covid lockdowns, an insider told Daily Mail: “She just stopped letting people in the house.”
Bullock kept her support group — including Ryan Reynolds and “Lost” actor Josh Holloway and his wife, Yessica — small to maintain privacy.
A source said: “Ryan and Sandra are close, he adores her,” as another added: “I know that Josh and Yessica were very close to Sandra and Bryan, but it’s private and too raw to talk about.”
Indeed, Reynolds posted a photo of their infamous nude scene from their comedy “The Proposal” for her 59th birthday on July 26, writing on Instagram: “Happy Birthday to the inimitable and stunning Sandra Bullock! For your birthday this year, I got us both intimacy coordinators. And an HR department. And clothing?”
Friends of Bullock are “devastated,” according to a Hollywood source, particularly in the wake of her 2021 comments on Jada Pinkett-Smith’s “Red Table” talk show.
“I am someone who went through the divorce process. I found the love of my life,” she said. “We share two beautiful children — three children, he’s got his older daughter. It’s the best thing ever.”
