All There Is with Anderson Cooper
Apr 17, 2026 · 41 min · 16 segments
New York Times writer and editor Sarah Wildman’s daughter Orli was 10 when she was diagnosed with a rare liver cancer. Anderson reached out to her after reading her remarkable essays about Orli's life…
Sarah WildmanGuest
Anderson CooperHost
I often say, you know, I really don't love to focus on her death because it kind of erases all that she was, right?
She was an amazing dancer, but she was starting to have all this pain, and no one understood it.
And I sort of, like, sucked them all back in, and I didn't cry around her again for a long time.
I didn't feel it was fair to her, and because I was trying so hard not to sit in a place that was as dark as that.
But when I came back from the ER, I wrote in my journal, "How are the eggs still good? Shouldn't the milk be sour? How is the food in my fridge still-- Hasn't it all expired? How could everything in my house be exactly the same but everything totally different?"
Everything else was exactly the same, except we could sort of see through the scrim of the life we'd led into the life we were about to lead.
I often say, you know, I really don't love to focus on her death because it kind of erases all that she was, right?
She was an amazing dancer, but she was starting to have all this pain, and no one understood it.
And I sort of, like, sucked them all back in, and I didn't cry around her again for a long time.
I didn't feel it was fair to her, and because I was trying so hard not to sit in a place that was as dark as that.
But when I came back from the ER, I wrote in my journal, "How are the eggs still good? Shouldn't the milk be sour? How is the food in my fridge still-- Hasn't it all expired? How could everything in my house be exactly the same but everything totally different?"
Everything else was exactly the same, except we could sort of see through the scrim of the life we'd led into the life we were about to lead.
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