LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: ALS Association has noticed a massive increase in their funds after donations rose to 500 percent amid Bryan Randall’s death. The longtime partner of Sandra Bullock was diagnosed with ALS and battled with the deadly disease in private. It a progressive neurodegenerative disease as per their official site, which impacts the spinal cord and brain
"We are grateful for the amazing outpouring of support in honor of Bryan,” Brian Frederick, the senior vice president of strategic communications at the nonprofit organization, said in a statement on Thursday, August 10.
What led to a 500 percent increase in ALS donations?
“We have seen a significant lift in donations, which will help our urgent work to make ALS a livable disease through local care, national advocacy, and global ALS research,” he said before adding, “We send our love and condolences to Sandra and Bryan’s family.”
Frederick told PageSix that donations “are up over 500% from this time last year.” “We currently have over $38 million committed to ALS research, including several investments and projects at MGH.”
On Monday, August 7, Randall’s family officially announced that he had ‘passed away peacefully’ at age 57 on August 5 after a ‘private’ three-year battle with ALS.
“We are immensely grateful to the tireless doctors who navigated the landscape of this illness with us and to the astounding nurses who became our roommates, often sacrificing their own families to be with ours,” it read.
'I just want to be at home'
In a previous interview Sandra Bullock shared why she took a break from acting, "I don't know. I don't know. Until I don't feel like I feel now when I'm in front of a camera. I want to be at home. I'm not doing anyone any favors who's investing in a project if I'm saying, 'I just want to be at home.'"
"Cause I was always running, I was always running to the next thing. I just want to be present, and responsible for one thing," she added, reports People.
The 'Gravity' star also said, "Right now, and I don't know how long that will be, I need to be in the place that makes me happiest. I take my job very seriously when I'm at work."
"It's 24/7 and I just want to be 24/7 with my babies and my family. We don't know how long or how short, but that's where I'm gonna be for a while," she told ET.
