Jennifer Aniston was one of Sandra Bullock’s friends who knew about Sandra’s partner Bryan Randall’s illness(amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)).
In one of the episode on SiriusXM, Sandra tells, "Randall asked me not to share his diagnosis".
"I wasn’t allowed to speak about it. That was the request and I tried — I honored it".
"I know why he asked me not [to], it isolated me in the process".
"I started grieving Bryan four years before he passed, he was ill for half of our relationship."
"My person left a lot earlier than the body left. I don’t think I ever dealt with that until after he passed, because you’re just on this treadmill, you know?".
"You have to quietly plan. And I’m a very good planner with illness (her father had accidents and her mother had cancer). It doesn’t scare me — not the illness itself, it doesn’t scare me. I can see and be around just about anything. But I had two young kids that were navigating it, especially a little girl who saw [Randall] as a father figure."
Gesine Bullock-Prado, Sandra's sister, was the only person who knew about Randall’s diagnosis for a while until she confided in friends including Jennifer Aniston and Bateman’s wife Amanda Anka.
"When the physical illness was then coupled with the mental health aspect of things — and it’s something that people don’t talk about… it was a trifecta that was pretty dark."






