Bradley Cooper has shared the terrifying moment he was held up at knifepoint while on the NYC subway in 2019.
In a new podcast interview with Dax Shepard, the 46-year-old star said he was on his way to pick up his 4-year-old daughter from school when he was attacked.
“I used to walk around New York City all the time with these (headphones) on – this was pre-pandemic – I was on the subway 11:45 to pick Lea downtown at Russian school and I got held up at knifepoint,” Cooper recalled.
“It was pretty insane. I realized I had gotten way, way too comfortable in the city. My guard was down… I was all the way at the end of the subway.”
The 46-year-old actor continued: “Innately, I would just go all the way down to the end. I felt somebody coming up. I thought, Oh they want to take a photo or something.
“As I turned, 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.”
Cooper said that the knife was around three inches long.
“I have my headphones on the whole time. I can’t hear anything. I’m just listening to music. So it’s scored, the whole thing was scored,” he said.
“I can’t remember (what he was listening to). I look up, I see the person’s eyes, and I’m taken by how young they are.”
The A Star Is Born actor also shared how he instinctively started to run away from the man.
“I just started booking, just started running. I jumped over the turnstile, hid around the white, tiled entrance to the subway [and] took my phone out. He jumped over, running away,” he said.
“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.
“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?’ 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. And then I got back on the subway and picked up my daughter,” he added.
Cooper and his ex Irina started dating in 2015. They welcomed their daughter Lea De Seine Shayke in 2017.
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