Sandra Bullock is paying tribute to her partner following his passing last year.
Sandra Bullock’s longtime partner, Bryan Randall, sadly passed away on August 5, 2023.
He was 57 years old at the time of his death, having battled ALS privately for years prior to his death.
“It is with great sadness that we share that on Aug. 5, Bryan Randall passed away peacefully after a three-year battle with ALS,” his family shared in a statement to PEOPLE at the time.
The statement continued: “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,” his family added.
“At this time we ask for privacy to grieve and to come to terms with the impossibility of saying goodbye to Bryan,” the statement concluded, signed, “His Loving Family.”
Bullock and Randall first met in 2015, when he photographed her son Louis’s birthday in January.
Later that year, the couple confirmed their relationship to the public, making an appearance together at Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux’s wedding.
Over the course of their 7-year relationship, they never tied the knot, which Sanda addressed during an episode of Red Table Talk in 2021.
“I found the love of my life,” Bullock said of her partner at the time. “We share two beautiful children— three children, [Randall’s] older daughter. It’s the best thing ever.”
“I don’t wanna say do it like I do it, but I don’t need a paper to be a devoted partner and devoted mother,” she said.
“I don’t need to be told to be ever present in the hardest of times,” Bullock continued. “I don’t need to be told to weather a storm with a good man.”
The actress also said that Randall is a great “example” to her children.
“He’s the example that I would want my children to have,” the Bird Box star said. “I have a partner who’s very Christian and there are two different ways of looking at things.”
“I don’t always agree with him, and he doesn’t always agree with me. But he is an example even when I don’t agree with him,” she insisted.
In an Instagram post on Sunday, Sandra’s sister revealed the sweet way she honored her late partner on his first birthday since his passing.
To celebrate what would have been Bryan’s 58th birthday, Sandra released his ashes on Snake River in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
The actress’ sister, Gesine Bullock-Prado, posted a video of the view, showing just how serene Randall’s final resting place is.
“Happy birthday, Bry. Sandy brought you to the river, just as she promised,” Bullock-Prado captioned her video.
Bullock and Randall are parents to three children between them: Bullock’s son Louis, 13, and daughter Laila, 11, plus Randall’s older daughter from a previous relationship.
Bullock was very proud of the family unit she had established with Randall by her side.
While she acknowledged that their family wasn’t traditional by any means, she was still very happy with how everything worked out for them.
“We’re very lucky that we get to live in this moment in time where we get to choose what our family looks like, and I got to do that in real life,” she said in an interview with PEOPLE in 2018.
She went on to tell the publication that things turned out “better than anything [she] could ever imagine.”
Bullock was so happy with her family life, she ended up stepping back from acting to spend more time with Randall and their kids.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in 2022, Sandra revealed that she was going to be taking a break from acting, explaining that she really wanted to focus on her home life.
“Work has always been steady for me, and I’ve been so lucky. I realized it possibly was becoming my crutch,” she said at the time. “It was like opening up a fridge all the time and looking for something that was never in the fridge.”
She continued, “I said to myself, ‘Stop looking for it here because it doesn’t exist here. You already have it; establish it, find it and be OK not having work to validate you.'”
Bullock repeated that same sentiment in an interview with Entertainment Tonight, saying that she just wanted to spend time at home “with my babies and my family.”