For Bradley Cooperbeing a father is always his first priority.
During a Thursday, December 21, press conference for his film MasterCooper, 48, looked at his phone and said, according to the Daily email: “I am so sorry. The school nurse just called me.”
“Can I just leave the room to call them back and you can continue?” he asked. “Is that good?”
When he returned, Cooper explained that he had to leave “to go to school to do something with Lea that… I have to apply something that they don’t allow… I have to do it, so it’s a 10-minute walk. ”
Cooper shares Lea De Seine, 6, with ex Irina Shayk. The former couple welcomed their daughter two years after they started dating. Cooper and Shayk, 37, eventually called it quits in June 2019.
Although Cooper has kept his daughter private, he has shared sweet anecdotes about her over the years — and they even stepped out to walk the red carpet together for the premiere of Master earlier this month.
In July, Cooper opened up about his own life experiences to parent Lea.
“I mean, you learn from your predecessor’s mistakes, and I’ll make tons of money that Lea will hopefully learn from,” he said on an episode of Running wild with Bear Grylls: the challenge. “To help her relieve herself with one of my bulls.”
Cooper then praised self-reflection for helping him, adding, “It’s for me too. It just makes life a lot better.”
For her part, Shayk spoke candidly Elle in March 2021 about co-parenting with Cooper. “When I’m with my daughter, I’m 100 percent mom, and when she’s with her dad, he’s 100 percent her dad,” she said. “Coparenting is parenting.”
She also explained her reason for keeping her relationship with Cooper out of the spotlight. “My past relationship, it’s something that’s mine, and it’s private. It’s just a piece of my inner self that I don’t want to give away,” she added.
In November 2021, a source said this exclusively We weekly that Cooper and Shayk are “incredibly close” and that it’s all about building a “great co-parenting relationship.”
“When Bradley gets a break from filming, he enjoys being with his family,” the insider added. “He and Irina will have dinner together and participate in fun, kid-friendly activities involving their daughter.”