Bradley Cooper is grateful to his ex-girlfriend Irina Shayk.
On Wednesday, the 46-year-old actor attended the New York premiere of his new movie, Nightmare Alley, where the 35-year-old style joined him.
Speaking to Entertainment Tonight about Shayk’s, amid the release of the Guillermo del Toro-directed mystery, Cooper said, “It’s very special. “
The couple separated in 2019 after 4 years together, but maintained a friendship while raising their 41/2-year-old daughter, Lea De Seine.
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In September, Shayk congratulated Cooper as a father in an interview with HIGHStyle.
“She is a full-fledged father, she is not a nanny. Lea went on vacation with him for almost two weeks [and] I didn’t call them once,” Shayk said at the time.
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The style talked about her and Cooper’s parenting styles, sharing, “Her father and I are very strict. “
“When he finishes dinner, he gets up from the table, takes his plate and says ‘thank you. ‘Without ‘please’ or ‘thank you’ you get nothing,” Shayk told HIGHStyle. “It’s hard, because he has so many toys. I had a doll and I still have this doll. Blonde, blue eyes, big Russian doll. My grandmother made clothes for him. “
“I explain, ‘Look, this is my doll. I only had one. “Or, sometimes, “You have this candy. Before, I only had it for Christmas,” Shayk added.
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In March, Shayk told ELLE mag that she and Cooper were equivalent parents and had no special term for their situation.
“I never understood the term co-parenting. When I am with my daughter, I am a hundred% mother, and when she is with her father, he is one hundred% her father,” she said at the time. “Co-parenting is parenting. “