Bradley Cooper held at knifepoint
Bradley Cooper has opened up about the terrifying time he was held at knifepoint in New York City.
He told the story during a chat on Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard.
The actor shared, "I used to walk around New York City all the time with these [headphones] on."
"I was on the subway [at] 11:45 to pick Lea downtown at Russian school and I got held up at knifepoint."
"It was pretty insane. I realised I had gotten way, way too comfortable in the city. My guard was down."
Bradley said it happened when he was, "all the way at the end of the subway."
"Innately, I would just go all the way down to the end. I felt somebody coming up," he recalled.
"I thought, 'Oh they want to take a photo or something.'"
"I’m up against the post like it’s the French Connection or some s**t, and I turned. I looked down and I see a knife."
The Hangover actor said the knife was 2.5/ 3 inches long, "with a wooden handle."
"I can’t hear anything"
He remembered, "I have my headphones on the whole time. I can’t hear anything."
Bradley continued, "I’m just listening to music. So it’s scored, the whole thing was scored."
"I can’t remember [what I was listening to]. I look up, I see the person’s eyes, and I’m taken by how young they are."
The 46-year-old said he started running, and found a place to hide in the subway station.
When he looked out, the person who attacked him was fleeing the scene.
"I took a photo of him. Then I chased him up the stairs. He started running up 7th Avenue. I took two more photographs of him," Bradley said.
"I ran down two police officers in an SUV, showed them the photograph and I’m, like, talking to them, and the guy kept saying — it was so interesting — he’s like, 'Are you stabbed?'"
Bradley recalled, "I was like, 'No, no.' He was like, 'Check to see if you’re stabbed.'"
"What happens is people get stabbed and they’re in shock. I looked to see if he was right, it was crazy bro."
"And then I got back on the subway and picked up my daughter."
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