Anderson Cooper’s Mom Gloria Vanderbilt Returns To His Show - Discusses Suicide & Loss

Anderson says he found it incredibly difficult to talk about losing his father as a child and his brother jumping off of the balcony of their New York City penthouse back in 1988.

“It's interesting. Because over the years after my dad died, I was 10, I always found it difficult to talk about it, and for years really didn't,” the host shared. “And you would always talk about him, and I always never really knew how to respond.”

Cooper said he went through the same feelings when he was 21 and his older brother committed suicide.

Gloria, on the other hand, said she found talking about it helped get her through both tragedies.

"After Carter died, people would come to see me and it meant so much to me to be able to go over again and again and again and again," said  Gloria who joined a support group called Compassionate Friends for parents who have lost a child.