Bradley Cooper Recalls Being Held At Knifepoint In New York

Bradley Cooper has revealed that he was once held at knifepoint on a subway in New York.

The 46-year-old outlined how he was going picking his daughter up and hadn't realised how comfortable he'd become in the city.

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Cooper, who shares daughter Lea De Seine Shayk Cooper with Russian model Irina Shayk, spoke about the encounter on Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard.

Revealing exactly what happened, Cooper said: "I used to walk around New York City all the time with these [headphones] on - this was pre-pandemic - I was on the subway [at] 11:45 to pick up Lea downtown at Russian school and I got held up at knifepoint."

He went on to add: "It was pretty insane. I realised 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.

"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***, and I turned. I looked down and I see a knife... I see the person's eyes, and I'm taken by how young they are."

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Instead of doing what most of us would do in that situation (cry, pee, or worse), Cooper of course did a runner and said: "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. 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."

Surely passers-by would have assumed this was a new film he was starring in.

He explained how he told two police officers and let them have a look at the pictures he'd taken, adding: "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."

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