Anderson Cooper Honors Late Brother Carter with Sweet Tribute: 'I Think of Him, and Miss Him, Every Day'

Anderson Cooper paid tribute to his late brother Carter (right) on Instagram Saturday.Photo:James Devaney/GC Images, Anderson Cooper/Instagram

James Devaney/GC Images, Anderson Cooper/Instagram

Anderson Cooperis paying tribute to his older brotherCarter Cooperon the 35th anniversary of his death.

The Emmy-winning journalist, 56, reflected on Carter’s memory in anInstagram postSaturday, marking over three decades since his 1988 suicide at age 23.

“It is 35 years today since my brother, Carter Cooper, died,” Anderson captioned his post. “I think of him, and miss him, every day.”

Alongside his message, the CNN anchor uploaded three images of his late loved one — one of the two of them together in matching shirts, and two other black-and-white shots of just Carter.

Carter died after jumping off the terrace wall of hismother Gloria Vanderbilt’s 14th-floor Manhattan apartment, a decade after the death of his father, Wyatt Emory Cooper.

Anderson also told PEOPLE that “you have to find a way to live in that space of not knowing, or not fully understanding.”

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Years earlier, in 2016, Anderson and his momGloria Vanderbilt— who died in 2019 — spoke with PEOPLE about how theirbond became strongerafter Carter’s death, but holidays never felt the same without him.

“When we were growing up, I used to imagine us being adults and being closer when we were adults and having families and kind of getting to know each other in a new way, and we never had that opportunity,” Anderson explained.

source: people.com