Jerry O’Connell talks about his attitude towards his wife Rebecca Romijn Dating him after her ex-husband, John Stamos. On Thursday’s episode of The conversationthe co-host spoke to the reality TV matchmaker Patti Stanger when the topic of “dating down” came up.
“I think my wife was kind of outdated,” O’Connell said with a laugh.
“Oh my God, I’m not going to say this, but you put Stamos in the ground,” Stanger insisted Full house Star. “You know how hot you are and you still are.”
O’Connell quickly chimed in, noting, “We love everyone, we love everyone.”
Stanger clarified: “You were so talented, that’s why I don’t look at you like that. And you were good to her.”
Romijn and Stamos met in 1994 and tied the knot in 1998. They separated in 2006 and she married O’Connell in 2007. The couple share 15-year-old twin daughters Charlie and Dolly. Stamos found love again with Caitlin McHugh, tying the knot in February 2018 and having a son named Billy two months later.
Romijn spoke to ET in January about the publication of her ex’s memoirs, If you had told me.
“I was very surprised, even incredibly shocked, by all of this,” she admitted to ET. “That kind of caught me off guard. But you know, I don’t really want to help him sell his books based on these headlines. So that’s all I really want to say about it.”
In the memoirs Stamos accuses Romijn of infidelity Describing the emotional turmoil of betrayal. While promoting the book, Stamos spoke openly about his challenging feelings toward Romijn during their divorce, confessing to Howard Stern that he felt “emasculated” as her career skyrocketed while he struggled.
O’Connell too dealt with the book on The conversationIn November he said: “My wife’s ex-husband recently wrote a biography in which she referred negatively to my wife. And a lot of people have asked me about it in the press, and it would be easy for me to do that.” say, “Fuck it, how dare you ask me that?” But in reality it gets attention direct a situation that I don’t want to get involved in.
In 2022 O’Connell opened up to ET about getting to know his wife and trying to get her attention.
“I saw Rebecca in the VIP area. I was in whatever the opposite of VIP is,” he told ET at the time. “I had met Rebecca before. Rebecca was newly single and I waved furiously and Rebecca came over and said, “Hey,” and I said, “It’s me, I’m Jerry.” I passed security. I grabbed her and went in and thought, “I just have to get in, I just have to go to the VIP area,” but I sat down with Rebecca and her friends. I knew I had a small window of opportunity. And…I laid it all out.”
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