In the metro, we often come across fanatics. Bradley Cooper was terrified when he took the New York subway to pick up his daughter, Lea de Seine (4 years old), the fruit of his love affair with his ex-partner Irina Shayk. It’s in the podcast Armchair Expert of Dax Shepard as the actor seen in the trilogy Hangover recounted his terrifying encounter with a man armed with a knife. “I used to walk around New York all the time with my headphones on. It was before the pandemic. I was on the subway at 11:45 am to pick up Lea from the Russian school in the downtown area. town and I was held at a knife threat “, he remembered.
“It was pretty crazy. I realized that I had become way too comfortable in the city. I let my guard down … I was at the end of the metro. Then I felt someone one come up and I thought ‘oh he wants to take a pic with me or something’ “, explained Bradley Cooper, who then thought he saw a fan approach him without a second thought. “Turning around, I hit a pole as if it was the French Connection. I looked down and saw a knife,” said the Hollywood star, specifying that the knife had to measure at least 10 centimeters.
“I have my headphones on all the time, I can’t hear anything all the way!”Bradley Cooper laughed, unable to remember the song he was listening to at the time but which remembers the young age of his attacker. To get out of trouble, Bradley Cooper starts running. “I jumped over the turnstile, hid around the entrance to the subway, and pulled out my phone. He jumped over it, running away. I took a picture of him. Then I chased him down the stairs. He started running on 7th Avenue. I took two more pictures of him. “.
Shocked by this meeting, he approaches two police officers and tells them about his mishap, with supporting evidence. “The guy kept asking me if I had been stabbed, which I wasn’t. But what if someone was stabbed and in shock?”, he rebelled at Dax Shepard’s microphone. Safe and sound, Bradley Cooper finally got back on the subway to pick up his daughter, as if nothing had happened.