BROOKLYN, NEW YORK CITY: Anderson Cooper reportedly got very emotional as he talked about the deaths of his father, brother, and mother at the On Air Fest.

The CNN anchor was speaking during a panel discussion about his podcast ‘All There Is with Anderson Cooper’ on Thursday, February 20, when he revealed how he copes with grief, The Daily Beast reported.

Cooper lost his father, writer Wyatt Emory Cooper, in 1978 at the age of 50 during open heart surgery.

Ten years later, his elder brother Carter Vanderbilt Cooper died by suicide. He was only 23.

The journalist's mother was artist and writer Gloria Vanderbilt, who died in 2019 at the age of 95 after being diagnosed with stomach cancer.

Anderson Cooper got really emotional throughout the 45-minute session while talking about his late father, mother, and brother. He said that to battle grief, he started reading Viktor Frankl’s memoir ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’.

He told his colleague Audie Cornish, “I just thought, ‘Why isn’t anyone else talking—why aren’t people talking about this? We all go through the things of our loved ones at one point; we will all experience the loss and grief. Why isn’t everybody talking about this all the time?”