Sandra Bullock says Bryan Randall was ill for 'half of our relationship' as she opens up about his death

Sandra Bullock broke her silence on the death of her longtime partner, Bryan Randall, who lost his battle with ALS in 2023.

Bullock, 62, dialed in to the " SmartLess" podcast from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where she was watching her kids fish nearby.

The "Speed" actress admitted she felt "safe" sharing her story with the group, nearly three years after Randall died.

While Bullock previously spoke about their relationship during a 2021 episode, she confessed that her head wasn't completely there at the time "because of the whole Bryan thing," she said.

"I don't remember anything." SANDRA BULLOCK HAS ‘DEEP CONCERN’ FOR FAMILY'S SAFETY AFTER RECENT SOCIAL MEDIA SCAMS "It's just horrible.

Where I sit now, what I have now, I would not have to share had I not gone through that," Bullock said.

"I would not ever want to go through it again, though you never know life is like... life is tricky.

I wasn't allowed to speak about it.

That was the request, and I honored it." When asked about keeping his diagnosis a secret, Bullock said, "Yes, he asked me not to share." "I know why he asked me not to... it isolated me in the process and plus the entire world was locked in with the pandemic," she said.

"He was ill for half of our relationship and the diagnosis came almost at the same time with the cloak of the pandemic." SANDRA BULLOCK'S LONGTIME PARTNER BRYAN RANDALL DEAD AT 57 AFTER BATTLE WITH ALS "So as the pandemic came down, and I have a child with severe asthma – I was panicking.

Then, we were trying to navigate all the tests, because with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis people – you don't go, 'Oh you have these symptoms, you have ALS.' It is literally like the process of elimination over the course of a year, and somewhere you keep going back, and they give you all these milestones these things to do ... because ALS appears in different ways." Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is named after the former New York Yankee great who was forced to retire in 1939 due to the debilitating disease and after playing for the team 17 seasons.

Gehrig retired at the age of 36 and died two years later.

"His was not hereditary, which I think is a huge sigh of relief, but it was about a year and some of watching it to see what it was," Bullock remembered.

"It could have been this, it could have been this, but what I saw, I knew." Bullock noted a history with caregiving, albeit minimally, as she witnessed her parents suffer from myriad illnesses.