Sandra Bullock talked about surviving loss in her family, including the death of her father, on today’s episode of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.”

Bullock’s father, John Wilson Bullock, died on Sept. 18 in Birmingham at age 93. He grew up in Birmingham and attended Fairfield High School, before serving in World War II and becoming a civilian contractor to the military. During his retirement, he returned to Birmingham to be close to relatives and lived part of each year here, according to a previous report by AL.com.

When asked by DeGeneres to discuss her “rough couple of months,” Bullock also opened up about the deaths of her two dogs, who died shortly after her father.

“Life, I realized, happens whether you schedule it or not,” the actress said. “That just blew my mind this year. My dad died, and then while my dad was failing, we get a call from the nanny … that our dog Ruby, the two-legger, had a stroke. And I’m like, ‘What, what?’ I was like, ‘Just put her on life support. Do something.’ And they go, ‘We can’t. She’s suffering.’ So I was like, ‘OK, there’s a reason for this. Dad’s settled. We fly home.'

“Days later, ‘You’re dad’s not doing well,’” Bullock said. “The nanny comes into the room. She’s got a look on her face. ... She’s like, ‘I need to speak to you in the bedroom.’ And I was like, ‘OK.’ And she goes, ‘Your other dog has a heart tumor, and she’s going to die in three days.’ And I was like, ‘I’m going to be fine.’ And then a week later, I’m in the bathtub crying.”

(Note: Bullock talks about the loss of her father and pets starting at the 4:14 mark in the video above.)

Bullock visited her father in Birmingham in 2010, taking him to dinner at one of his favorite restaurants, the Bright Star in Bessemer, for Father’s Day.

“We had to keep it real low-key," Jimmy Koikos, co-owner of the Bright Star, told AL.com. "She was real nice. She was as pleasant as she could be.”

Bullock also traveled to Birmingham in 2015 for her father’s 90th birthday party at The Club, according to The National Enquirer.

Funeral services for John Bullock were private and his immediate family attended, according to his obituary in The Birmingham News. He is survived by four daughters, the obituary says -- Nancy Patricia Culbertson, Katherine Louise Anderson, Sandra Annette Bullock and Gesine Vanessa Bullock-Prado --along with six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

Bullock’s mother, Helga Meyer, a German-born opera singer, died in 2000 at age 58.