Bradley Cooper sweetly holds daughter Lea’s, seven, hand while on dad duty in NYC.

the BottleRock Food and Music Festival in Napa – guided the seven-year-old through the streets of the Big Apple while carrying her backpack in his spare hand.

The Oscar-nominated star shares Lea with ex and supermodel, earlier this year in February, Cooper got candid about struggling to bond with Lea when she was first born.

‘The first eight months – I don’t even know if I really love the kid,’ he admitted. ‘It’s dope. It’s cool. I’m watching this thing morph.’

‘That’s my experience. Fascinated by it. Loved taking care of it. But would I die if someone came in with a gun?’

‘And then all of a sudden, it’s like, no question,’ the A Star Is Born actor expressed, adding that his aim is to ‘do the least amount of damage that [he] could do to [his] daughter.’

‘I’m not sure I’d be alive if I wasn’t a dad. I just needed someone to say, like, “We’re gonna drop this massive anchor.”‘