Cuba Gooding Jr.: My daughter runs the house
Cuba Gooding Jr. was the man of the house in Jerry Maguire, but in real life, it’s his 22-month-old daughter Piper Adelaide who rules the roost, he reveals on Live with Regis and Kelly.
Piper runs the house. She wakes up, even the dog looks over the crib — ‘Oh, she’s up.’
Their dog is a 210 lb. English Mastiff named Bootsy, whom Piper and his sons Spencer, 12, and Mason, 10, adore. But, as Sadie Sandler, 14 months, has proved, puppy love hurts.
He’s got these real long ears and he’ll stand there and the baby will just grab one and kind of pull it. And he’s like, ‘Help me, somebody. Somebody get the baby.’ ‘No, Pipe, No, Pipe. Let go of the dog.’
Bootsy doesn’t accompany the family, which also includes Cuba’s wife, his high-school sweetheart Sara, on vacations. That’s a good thing considering what happened this summer. The Oscar winner, 39, shot the upcoming flick Linewatch in Albuquerque, N.M. and had a touring bus on set, which inspired him to take his family on a road trip back home to California. But when the air conditioner broke down in 110-degree Arizona, they had to find other ways to keep cool.
My wife has the baby in the sink, hosing her down, yelling at me, ‘Why are we here?’
