Sandra Bullock appeared to be in good spirits as she stepped out in Los Angeles after enjoying a pampering session at a local beauty spot, nearly three months after the death of her partner Bryan Randall.
While walking back to her car on Wednesday, the Oscar winner, 59, looked effortlessly chic in a long, black faux fur coat, leggings and a pair of oversized shades over her dark brown eyes.
The mother-of-two looked happier and radiant than she has in a very long time following the devastating loss of her longtime partner, who helped raise her adopted children Louis, 11, and Laila, 9.
Randall died at 57 of ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.
For her laid-back outing, Bullock wore her brunette locks in a low ponytail and accessorized her casual ensemble with a gold chain, two rings and a pair of sneakers.
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Bullock carried two small shopping bags down the sidewalk, indicating she may have indulged in some much-needed retail therapy.
The Hollywood star and Bryan – a model-turned-photographer – first crossed paths in 2015, after he photographed her son Louis’s birthday.
Their fateful meeting came five years after her messy divorce from Jesse James.
In August, his family shared a statement with People, in which they announced ‘with great sadness’ that he ‘passed away peacefully after a three-year battle with ALS.’
‘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.’
Randall’s family have asked for donations to the ALS Association and the Massachusetts General Hospital in lieu of flowers, according to People.
There is no cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis – ALS – and the disease is fatal, but it progresses at different speeds in patients.
People with ALS are expected to live two to five years after the symptoms first manifest, although 10 percent of sufferers live at least 10 years. It is also known in some countries as motor-neurone disease.
The disease is also referred to as Lou Gehrig’s Disease after the US baseball player when he was diagnosed in 1939 at just 36 years old.
The couple did not have any children together, but Bullock has two adopted children — son Louis and Laila — and Bryan has an adult daughter named Skylar from a previous relationship.
Sandra and Bryan began dating several months after first meeting, and even attended Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux’s wedding that same year.
The actress was in the process of adopting her second child when things got serious with Bryan.
Though Sandra and Bryan have kept their romance very private, the silver screen star gushed about her beau in 2021 on Jada Pinkett Smith’s Red Table Talk, where she also discussed her divorce from ex-husband Jesse James in 2010.
During the appearance Bullock said: ‘I am someone who went through the divorce process.’
‘I found the love of my life,’ she continued. ‘We share two beautiful children — three children, his older daughter. It’s the best thing ever.’
Sandra met Bryan described him as a ‘saint’ after she informed him she was adopting a second child when they ‘hadn’t been together that long.’
‘I said, “Remember that NDA you signed when you photographed my son?” I said, “You know, that still holds.” He said “Why?” I said, “I’m bringing a child home when I come back from Toronto,'” Sandra explained.
‘He was so happy, but he was scared. I’m a bulldozer. My life was already on the track and here’s this beautiful human being who doesn’t want anything to do with my life, but the right human being to be there.’
She also described her partner as being ‘very Christian’ and a great example to the children. ‘I don’t always agree with him and he doesn’t always agree with me,’ she said, adding: ‘But if they can take away from that and that is where they feel drawn to, he’s the exact right parent to be in this position.’
Before her relationship with Randall, Bullock was in a high-profile romance with Monster Garage host Jesse James.
They met after she brought her motorcycle-obsessed godson on a trip to West Coast Choppers’s Long Beach headquarters in 2003. The pair ultimately wed in 2005, in front of 270 of their closest friends and family at a ranch in the San Ynez Valley.
In March 2010, days after she took home an Academy Award for her performance in The Blind Side, several women came forward about their affairs with Jesse.
A month later, Jesse checked himself into a rehab facility in Arizona for sex addiction after apologizing profusely to Bullock, although that wasn’t enough to save the marriage – they divorced the following June.
