AP Actor Bradley Cooper
MAY 7, 2015, 7:52 PM LAST UPDATED: THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2015, 8:07 PM
BY CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
RIDGEWOOD — Village resident Anthony Daniels is getting some high-profile support in his ongoing fight against Hodgkin’s lymphoma from actor Bradley Cooper.
The “American Sniper” star appeared Wednesday with Daniels, a 23-year-old former Fordham University business student and boxing enthusiast, on ABC’s “Good Morning America” to raise awareness of the onetime Ridgewood High School hockey player’s plight. Daniels, who is fighting the cancer for a fourth time, needs a bone marrow transplant.
“I was approached by Delete Blood Cancer and they said you know, ‘There’s a guy, he’s a young man at Fordham University dealing with blood cancer,’” Cooper said in the segment.
The actor was asked by the organization if there was anything he might be willing to do to help Daniels.
Cooper replied: “Well, can I meet him? Let’s meet and talk.”
Cooper, whose father had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and died from lung cancer four years ago, said in the segment that upon meeting Daniels, he was impressed by his determination to beat his cancer a fourth time.
