Sandra Bullock put her Hollywood career on hold to care for her seriously ill boyfriend Bryan Randall who died over the weekend after a three-year battle with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis).

When the actress appeared at the premiere of ‘The Lost City’ with co-star Channing Tatum in March 2022 – without Randall by her side – few had any idea what was going on… Since then, the actress has made few public appearances .

In fact, while promoting the comedy, Bullock, who called Randall the “love of her life,” revealed that she was going to take time off. “I want to be at home. I’m not doing anyone investing in a project any favors if I say, “I want to be home,”’ he told CBS Sunday Morning. “Because I was always running for the next thing. I just want to be present and responsible for one thing.”

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A top Hollywood producer told Page Six, “I don’t think people knew that the actress actually left to take care of Brian.”

Bullock first met Randall after she hired him to take pictures at a birthday party for her son Louis in 2015. They appeared as a couple in October of that year at the premiere of her film Our Brand is Crisis. The actress hasn’t been in a serious relationship since her divorce from Jesse James in 2010, the same year she adopted Louis.

Louis, as well as Bullock’s 11-year-old daughter Laila, who she adopted in 2015, are believed to have called Randall “Daddy,” according to the Daily Mail. The publication also reported that the couple tied the knot in an informal ceremony in December 2017 at French financier Arpaud Busson’s Three Bees Villa on Harbor Island in the Bahamas.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is not a new disease, having been first identified since the 19th century. ALS disease is caused by the destruction of cells that control movement in the brain and spine, but its cause is still being sought, apart from some manifestations attributed to the hereditary factor. Patients initially feel the effects in their extremities and sometimes in their throat. They gradually lose their muscle strength, until they are paralyzed and can no longer move, speak, swallow or breathe. They are confined to a wheelchair and their movement as well as their communication depends on machines.