His '60 Minutes' interview with Lady Gaga won't air until the night of the 2011 Grammy Awards, but Anderson Cooper isn't holding back about one of the most memorable moments of their recent sit-down. Or maybe he's happy that he remembers it at all!
Cooper told The Insider that when he hung out with the Grammy-winning provacateur in England to shoot their Q&A, she had her own ideas about how to make the interview more relaxing.
"We actually ended up that day in a pub in London drinking Jameson, which I don't really drink," the longtime CNN journalist said. "So, she got me to drink, like, two of them. And by the end, I was ready to have the interview be over, because I really sort of couldn't ask anymore questions."
Cooper confessed a strong interest in meeting the singer face to face. "She's obviously a fascinating person," he said.
And while tippling Irish whiskey isn't standard protocol for most of his in-depth interviews, conducting multiple conversations in different locations is.
"What's great about '60 Minutes' is you spend a lot of time with the person you're profiling," he explained. "So to be able to spend a couple weekends with [Gaga] in various places over the course of several months, it's really cool. And it's really interesting....I'm learning stuff about her I never saw before."
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