Anderson Cooper has asked his ex-boyfriend Benjamin Maisani to help co-parent his newborn son Wyatt. The CNN host announced the birth of his son via surrogate on Thursday night and, speaking during an interview for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Monday, the 52-year-old revealed that Maisani is “going to be a co-parent to Wyatt even though we’re not together anymore”. “He’s my family, and I want him to be Wyatt’s family as well,” he revealed.
Although Cooper and Maisani split in March 2018, they have remained close, and his former beau was in the delivery room when Wyatt was born.
Gushing about his new role as a dad, the star added: “It’s extraordinary. It’s astonishing. I just stare at him and hold him and I just can’t believe. “I’v