All There Is with Anderson Cooper
Apr 30, 2026 · 39 min · 18 segments
Writer and director of “Almost Famous” among other films, Cameron Crowe, talks about the death of his sister Cathy when he was 10 years old, and how he has come to be "in conversation" with her now…
Cameron CroweGuest
Anderson CooperHost
I would try often, and sometimes I'd get, like, 30 or 40 seconds in before the emergency brake got pulled by her throwing her hands up and saying, "I can't talk about this.
I don't wanna-- Don't make me talk about-- Don't make me talk about it." And then you just feel like you're this wicked person for delving deeper.
A lot of the stuff that's been talked about in your amazing interviews, it's the things we bury and how they fester and how they never go away.
When you open yourself up to all the questions, then you've got a shot at getting them answered.
But what was amazing is that Kathy, and even my dad, who died at a pretty young age, 65, there were so many conversations that we had never had.
And what I found was, and I don't know if you've found this to be the case, but people leave clues behind.
Sometimes, often on purpose, they leave clues behind, the songs they loved, the books they loved, the photos they loved.
And so I found that I was collecting all these little crumbs that had been left behind by Kathy and my dad.
My dad left behind a box of slides, and he was in the Korean War, but I, I never talked to him about where he was in the Korean War, and did he ever kill anybody? Or, you know, we never talked about it, but he left these slides behind.
And using the internet, I was able to, like, find out where these pictures of him at war were taken.
I would try often, and sometimes I'd get, like, 30 or 40 seconds in before the emergency brake got pulled by her throwing her hands up and saying, "I can't talk about this.
I don't wanna-- Don't make me talk about-- Don't make me talk about it." And then you just feel like you're this wicked person for delving deeper.
A lot of the stuff that's been talked about in your amazing interviews, it's the things we bury and how they fester and how they never go away.
When you open yourself up to all the questions, then you've got a shot at getting them answered.
But what was amazing is that Kathy, and even my dad, who died at a pretty young age, 65, there were so many conversations that we had never had.
And what I found was, and I don't know if you've found this to be the case, but people leave clues behind.
Sometimes, often on purpose, they leave clues behind, the songs they loved, the books they loved, the photos they loved.
And so I found that I was collecting all these little crumbs that had been left behind by Kathy and my dad.
My dad left behind a box of slides, and he was in the Korean War, but I, I never talked to him about where he was in the Korean War, and did he ever kill anybody? Or, you know, we never talked about it, but he left these slides behind.
And using the internet, I was able to, like, find out where these pictures of him at war were taken.
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