John Stamos he opens up about his painful divorce from his ex-wife Rebecca Romijn.
I Full house The actor, 62, started dating Romijn, 53, in 1994 and they tied the knot in 1998. However, the relationship ended after six years, and their divorce was finalized in 2005.
“It broke my heart. I didn’t want a divorce,” Stamos admitted when he appeared on June 10. Bobbi Althoff‘s “Really Good Podcast.”
He added, “He wanted to [get divorced]. It took me a long time to get over it, but I have to say … she has a good life, she married another guy, they have children, they are doing very well.”
Romijn is married to an actor Jerry O’Connell in December 2007. The stars share twin daughters, Charlie and Dolly, 17.
Stamos, meanwhile, is a married actor and actress Caitlin McHugh in 2018. They share a son, Billy, 8.
During an appearance on the podcast, Stamos recalled that he recently met O’Connell, 52, at a party.
“I met him recently. It was very exciting. He was very nice. He was very nice,” he said. “We were both at a party and he came over and he was so cute. He couldn’t be nicer. He was so funny and so adorable.”
When Stamos said “you will meet [O’Connell] once maybe 20, 30 years ago,” he added about Romijn, “I haven’t seen him since we divorced.”
In his 2023 memorial, If You Would Tell MeStamos opened up about the breakdown of his relationship with Romijn, who he later said “blindsided” him.
“As I raise Rebecca, I’m losing it. … Making it clear that I’m a TV guy and she’s a newly made star. … Somewhere inside, I’m starting to believe it,” he wrote at the time.
According to the ER alum, there were “good times and good times” during the couple’s marriage.
The love story of Rebecca Romijn and Jerry O’Connell is a real story. “We met at the Maxim Hot 100 party in Las Vegas. True story,” Romijn revealed while hosting The Wendy Williams Show with O’Connell in February 2019. “It was a pool party in Las Vegas.” O’Connell added more context to their 2004 story […]
“But in all that, there is no mention of having children and starting a family,” he wrote. “This has always been our plan. Our dream. It feels like he’s not telling me about that dream anymore.”
According to Stamos, the X-Men The actress was “busy with her work and new friends” to notice that she was “slipping.”
She wrote, “We’re trying new things and growing, but not together,” adding that it felt “hard to make time for each other, to slow down, to cut through the chaos of the world, and make eye contact again.”
In the end, though, “He gives me a little smile, he doesn’t look me in the eye because of dinner, he’s on the phone in the other room,” Stamos wrote. “Betrayal starts as a sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach, it grows into suspicion that covers all your thoughts, and when you find out the truth, it’s uniquely bad at first but also expected, like you’ve been waiting for something bad to happen. There’s nothing else to say. There’s a point of no return, and what felt like a phase is good enough to get me out now.”
