Do You Remember: That Time Bradley Cooper Read Lolita in the Park to His Much Younger Girlfriend

Good book choice, bad paparazzi set-up, Brad.

Last week, Suki Waterhouse was profiled by British Vogue. The model turned actress and singer is promoting her newest album but the lion’s share of the piece was focused on her life as a new mother to her baby daughter. Waterhouse, who has been with her partner Robert Pattinson for over six years, seems very warm and down-to-earth in the article. Her baby is on the cover with her, albeit with her face concealed (her name is also not given), and she looks gorgeous. It’s typical fluffy Vogue profile stuff, not especially probing or interested in much beyond the basic beats. But it wasn’t without a couple of intriguing tidbits.

(Image via Vogue.)

Her prior high-profile relationships with the likes of musician Miles Kane and actor Diego Luna are brought up. The piece notes that "it was her relationships with men older and more famous than her [...] that propelled her to the murky heights of tabloid fame." Her songs have touched on her love life, with lyrics like, “It’s just the way it’s meant to be/Now your love’s no good for me.” Her time with actor Bradley Cooper is noted in interesting terms. "I really will say that I’m pretty strong at this point, but when something very public happens to you and the story behind it is dark and difficult, and you’re actually not doing well, and you can’t explain yourself to the world, that’s very isolating and disorientating," she says. Describing her 20s, she also says of her past relationship that "the love I experienced [then] was only ever a fetishisation, and I think when you only get loved in that way, you only get punished."

What that immediately made me think of is one of the most cringey paparazzi pics of my time: Bradley Cooper in the park with Suki Waterhouse, reading Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita to her. At the time, he was 38, she was 21.