Hey there, it's Chamehte here. I am still out on maternity leave, but here's an episode from our archives.

My conversation with Anderson Cooper about grief and loss. I hope you enjoy it. This is in conversation from Apple News.

I'm Shemeita Bessu.

Our Think Again series continues.

Today, finding gratitude in grief. Our Think Again series continues.

Today, finding gratitude in grief with Anderson Cooper is now the only living member of his nuclear family.

When he was 10 years old, his father, Wyatt Cooper, died of a heart attack.

About a decade later, his brother Carter died by suicide.

Then, just a few years ago, in 2019, his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, died at the age of 95.

Anderson says it's only recently

that he's been able to really talk about and process

these losses.

I've never really allowed myself to kind of grieve and here I am 56 years old and suddenly

find myself feeling things that I've never felt before.

Last year he came out with a podcast called All There Is,

where he talks to celebrities, a physician, a filmmaker,

as well as writers and other artists about their experiences with death and grief.

He's also received hours and hours of voice messages from listeners. Curing from other people, it's been incredible to realize that there is this ocean of loss out there and this ocean of sadness and melancholy and people who were just missing other people.

The podcast is Anderson Cooper like you haven't seen him on TV,

posting his show on CNN. It's intensely personal and raw. You can hear him in the very

first episode as he's going through his mother's apartment, coming across things that

belong to his father and his brother, trying to narrate his way through layers of memories and hurt.

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