A-Lister Reveals Why She Barely Remembers Winning Her Oscar
REUTERS/Gary Hershorn Sandra Bullock has said she can remember “nothing” from the night she took home an Academy Award because she was caring for her newborn son.
The A-List actress revealed that the haziness of the event on Thursday’s Live with Kelly and Mark .
Bullock, 62, won Best Actress at the 2010 Academy Awards for her role in The Blind Side .
At the time, Bullock secretly had a newborn son, Louis Bardo Bullock.
The actress had quietly adopted New Orleans-born Louis and brought him home in January 2010, just two months before the Oscars.
“I had maybe two hours of sleep,” the actress said.
“I was hiding a newborn.
No one knew I had Lou, and he had acid reflux, so he slept only every two hours.
So I don’t remember much of the night.” “I do know that I wanted to get home because I wanted to do the feeding,” she explained, “Because I knew who was there with him was probably struggling.” “I couldn’t leave the Oscars early,” she continued.
“We went to the afterparty, and then we had to wait to get the little name put on there.
And I was like, ‘Can we just hurry up the name?’ And then we said ‘Hi,’ and then I took off.” “And they all thought, ‘Oh, she’s tired.
She’s tired.’ And I was tired!” Bullock said.
“But I just wanted to get home to a little person that no one knew about.” Bullock did remember coming home and sitting in her Oscars gown with Lou.
“The Oscar was on the floor, and Lou was on my lap,” said the star.
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