Two things have changed Anderson Cooper’s life for the better: hosting CNN’s New Year’s Eve show and becoming a dad. Cooper joined SiriusXM’s Bruce Bozzi on his show “Quarantined with Bruce” on Friday and shared how, prior to hosting CNN’s annual broadcast, he actually “hated” the holiday.
RELATED: Anderson Cooper’s Son Wyatt Makes Adorable Appearance During ‘CNN Heroes’ “My dad died a couple of days after New Year’s Eve, January 5th in 1978,” Cooper explained. “And so I remember that New Year’s Eve distinctly, ’cause he was in the hospital and it was so terrifying and it was just, it would kind of ruin New Year’s Eve for me from then on, it sort of became this night of terror basically, and sadness.” But in 2002, CNN “needed somebody” to