CNN's Anderson Cooper remembers mom Gloria Vanderbilt as visitor from 'distant star'

- CNN anchor Anderson Cooper remembered his mother, designer and society grand dame Gloria Vanderbilt, as a woman who endured a string of heartbreaks but still remained deeply in love with love.

"I always felt it was my job to protect her. She was the strongest person I ever met but she wasn't tough," Cooper said in a seven-minute video“I always thought of her as a visitor from another world, a traveler stranded here who had come from a distant star that had burned out long ago.” Cooper’s obituary featured clips of young Gloria and told how she grew up in France, unaware that she was heir to the Vanderbilt railroad fortune. Portions also were taken from an HBO documentary “Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper.”

His mother “trusted too freely, too completely” but always pressed on, Cooper said, and always believed that the next true love was just around the corner.

So .... Anderson is really Star Lord? 😂 IDTS

She rarely spoke to Anderson

Bowie already holds that dinstinction.

may God rest her soul

Had the good fortune to be born into an even bigger fortune.

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