Sandra Bullock’s sister praises Hollywood star for ‘amazing’ way she nursed partner Bryan Randall during his ‘cruel’ private three-year battle with ALS before his death at 57

Sarah Bullock’s family has praised the ‘amazing’ way she cared for her longtime partner Bryan Randall during his secret battle with ALS before his tragic death at 57. 

The photographer’s family revealed in a statement on Monday that he had passed away on Saturday, August 5, three years after he was diagnosed with the illness. 

Bullock’s sister Gesine Bullock-Prado took to her Instagram on Monday afternoon to mourn the loss of Randall and honor her sister, who had been in a relationship with Randall since 2015. 

‘I’m convinced that Bry has found the best fishing spot in heaven and is already casting his lure into rushing rivers teaming with salmon,’ she began. 

‘ALS is a cruel disease but there is some comfort in knowing he had the best of caretakers in my amazing sister and the band of nurses she assembled who helped her look after him in their home,’ Bullock-Prado added.  

‘The best of caretakers’: Sandra’s sister Gesine praised the ‘amazing’ way she cared for Bryan during his illness. The siblings are seen here at The Lost City premiere in March 2022

Instagram tribute: Gesine called ALS a ‘cruel disease’, but added ‘there is some comfort in knowing he had the best of caretakers in my amazing sister and the band of nurses she assembled who helped her look after him in their home’

Gesine concluded the post by writing, ‘Rest in peace, Bryan,’ and encouraged donations to both the ALS Association and Massachusetts General Hospital. 

The Hollywood actress first met Bryan – a model-turned-photographer – in 2015, after he photographed her son Louis’s birthday. It came five years after her messy divorce from Jesse James. 

On their last public sighting together, in July, 2020, the former model was pictured gazing adoringly at his love as they arrived to an intimate gathering in Studio City with her two children.

‘It is with great sadness that we share that on Aug. 5, Bryan Randall passed away peacefully after a three-year battle with ALS,’ his family shared to People. 

‘Bryan chose early to keep his journey with ALS private and those of us who cared for him did our best to honor his request.’

‘We are immensely grateful to the tireless doctors who navigated the landscape of this illness with us and to the astounding nurses who became our roommates, often sacrificing their own families to be with ours,’ the family statement continued.

‘At this time we ask for privacy to grieve and to come to terms with the impossibility of saying goodbye to Bryan.’ The statement was signed off by ‘His Loving Family.’

There is no cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis – ALS – and the disease is fatal, but it progresses at different speeds in patients. 

Last outing: On their last public sighting together, in July, 2020, the former model was pictured gazing adoringly at his love as they arrived to an intimate gathering in Studio City with her two children; seen in 2018 in NYC