Anderson Cooper Shares Emotional Tribute To Late Brother Carter On 35th Annivers

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00:00 Anderson Cooper is remembering his late brother on the 35th anniversary of Carter Cooper's death.

00:06 The CNN anchor took to Instagram to pay tribute to his older brother.

00:10 Quote, it is 35 years today since my brother Carter Cooper died.

00:15 I think of him and miss him every day.

00:17 Anderson captioned a series of black and white photos of Carter,

00:21 including a snapshot of the siblings together.

00:24 Carter died by suicide at the age of 23 after jumping off the terrace wall of his mother,

00:29 Gloria Vanderbilt's 14th floor Manhattan apartment.

00:33 Anderson has long been open about his brother's death.

00:36 Shortly after his mom passed away in 2019, he told his CNN viewers that he felt lonely

00:41 now being the only one left in his immediate family.

00:44 My dad died when I was 10 and my brother when I was 21.

00:50 She was the last of my immediate family, the last person who knew me from the beginning.

00:55 They're all gone and it feels very lonely right now.

00:59 I hope they are at least together.

01:01 I've said before that I often thought of my mom as a voyager from a distant galaxy who

01:07 was stranded here, unable to return to the place and time in which she was born.

01:11 I always tried to protect her, but couldn't do that very well when I was 10 or even 20.

01:16 But I'm happy that I was able to help make the latter years of her life comfortable and fulfilling.

01:20 When I die, that might be the thing I'm most proud of.

01:24 I'm happy that we left nothing unsaid between us.

01:28 She knew me and I knew her and there is great comfort in that.

01:31 You and I, it's a match made in heaven, she said to me last week.

01:36 We're a good team, I told her.

01:38 We stayed up late that night just holding hands and when she got sleepy and I got ready to leave,

01:42 she said to me, "What a wonderful night."

01:45 And it was.

01:46 Perhaps our best.

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