{"id":292280,"date":"2020-05-12T14:52:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T20:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1151110"},"modified":"2020-05-12T14:52:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T20:52:23","slug":"anderson-cooper-reveals-why-he-asked-ex-benjamin-maisani-to-help-raise-his-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/anderson-cooper-reveals-why-he-asked-ex-benjamin-maisani-to-help-raise-his-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson Cooper Reveals Why He Asked Ex Benjamin Maisani to Help Raise His Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2018215\/rs_600x600-180315112232-600-anderson-cooper-Benjamin-Maisani.jpg?fit=around|1080:1080&amp;output-quality=90&amp;crop=1080:1080;center,top\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Just last week, the CNN host opened up about Benjamin being part of his newborn son&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even though we&#8217;re not together anymore&#8230; he&#8217;s my family and I want him to be Wyatt&#8217;s family, as well,&#8221; he told <strong>Stephen Colbert<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He also gushed over his first few days as a father.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just can&#8217;t believe that&#8230; he&#8217;s going to depend on me and that he&#8217;s here. It&#8217;s just astonishing,&#8221; Cooper said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve always dreamed about it, but I never thought I would actually be able to do it. It&#8217;s been incredible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, he&#8217;s not raising his son alone. Fans might recall that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/920978\/anderson-cooper-and-benjamin-maisani-break-up\" rel=\"nofollow\">he and Benjamin split back in 2018<\/a>, after being together for nearly a decade.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Benjamin and I separated as boyfriends some time ago,&#8221; Cooper shared with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-5505055\/Anderson-Cooper-spends-time-new-man-Victor-Lopez.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Daily Mail<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;at the time.&nbsp;&#8220;We are still family to each other, and love each other very much. We remain the best of friends, and will continue to share much of our lives together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1151110\/anderson-cooper-reveals-why-he-asked-ex-benjamin-maisani-to-help-raise-his-son?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just last week, the CNN host opened up about Benjamin being part of his newborn son&#8217;s life. &#8220;Even though we&#8217;re not together anymore&#8230; he&#8217;s my family and I want him to be Wyatt&#8217;s family, as well,&#8221; he told Stephen Colbert.&nbsp; He also gushed over his first few days as a father. &#8220;I just can&#8217;t believe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-20 07:13:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}