Sandra Bullock's youthful sister has shared particulars of how the star cared for her long-term accomplice as he battled with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) within the months earlier than his dying.

Gesine Bullock-Prado, a TV chef and creator, posted an emotional tribute to photographer Bryan Randall after his dying was introduced by his household in a press release to the US journal People.

The 57-year-old, who had been in a relationship with Sandra Bullock since 2015, had stored his sickness personal.

Next to {a photograph} of Randall, Bullock-Prado wrote on Instagram: "I'm convinced that Bry has found the best fishing spot in heaven and is already casting his lure into rushing rivers teaming with salmon."

She went on to explain ALS as "a cruel disease", however mentioned there was "some comfort in knowing he had the best of caretakers in my amazing sister and the band of nurses she assembled" who cared for him at dwelling.

Bullock-Prado ended her tribute with particulars on how one can donate to the ALS Association and Massachusetts General Hospital, in lieu of flowers.

ALS is the most typical type of motor neurone illness (MND), and is generally called MND within the UK. In the US, it's also often called Lou Gehrig's illness, after the well-known New York Yankees baseball participant who was pressured to retire after creating the situation in 1939.

MND is a progressive neurodegenerative illness which causes specialist nerve cells within the mind and spinal wire to cease working correctly.

'We did our greatest to honour his request'

Randall's household mentioned of their assertion that he had chosen "to keep his journey with ALS private", including: "Those of us who cared for him did our best to honour his request.

"We are immensely grateful to the tireless docs who navigated the panorama of this sickness with us and to the astounding nurses who turned our roommates, usually sacrificing their very own households to be with ours.

"At this time we ask for privacy to grieve and to come to terms with the impossibility of saying goodbye to Bryan."

Bullock, 59, reportedly first met Randall when he photographed her son Louis's birthday in January 2015.

The Hollywood star is thought for profitable the Oscar for finest actress in 2010, for her efficiency in The Blind Side, and was additionally nominated in 2014 for sci-fi thriller Gravity.

She rose to fame within the motion thriller Speed alongside Keanu Reeves in 1994, with different movie credit together with The Net, While You Were Sleeping, The Proposal, Miss Congeniality and Ocean's 8.

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