NEWSJohn Stamos' Ex-Wife Rebecca Romijn Had No 'Warning' She'd Be Torn Apart in Actor's Bombshell Memoir, Husband Jerry O'Connell Reveals
John Stamos failed to mention to his ex-wife Rebecca Romijn just how candid he’d get about their relationship’s demise in his tell-all memoir, If You Would Have Told Me.
Romijn’s husband, Jerry O’Connell, guest starred on Access Hollywood one day before Stamos’ juicy book hit shelves on Tuesday, October 24, where he briefly touched upon the shocking revelations from the Full House star’s memoir that landed his wife in headlines prior to its release.
Jerry O'Connell said he and his wife, Rebecca Romijn, had no 'warning' about revelations from John Stamos' memoir.
Speaking with Access Hollywood co-hosts Mario Lopez and Kit Hoover, O’Connell admitted he and Romijn didn’t "get an warning" regarding what Stamos would discuss about his nearly six-year marriage with the Femme Fatale actress.
"We find out just like anyone else," O'Connell, 49, said of him and Romijn, 50.
Jerry O'Connell married Rebecca Romijn two years after her divorce from John Stamos was finalized in 2005.
The co-hosts proceeded to ask if Stamos’ bombshells about his and Romijn’s 2004 split came as a "shocker" to O’Connell and the Star Trek: Strange New World actress, though he declined to comment.
"It’s not really my place to say, Kit," the Stand by Me actor admitted, as he quipped: "I would rather my wife talk about that. My wife and I are getting along so well today."
Jerry O'Connell and Rebecca Romijn share 13-year-old twins together.
Lopez — who has been married to his wife, Courtney Laine Mazza, since 2012 — understood where O'Connell was coming from, calling him a "smart man" for opting not to respond.
O'Connell’s reaction to Stamos' memoir comes after the Full House star confessed he "hated" Romijn and considered her to be "the devil" after they decided to separate nearly twenty years ago, as OK! previously reported.
- 'She Was the Devil': John Stamos 'Hated' Ex-Wife Rebecca Romijn When Their Marriage Fell Apart
- Rebecca Romijn Admits She Was 'Blindsided' by John Stamos' Harsh Comments About Their Marriage in Actor's Tell-All Memoir
- 'It's a Little Scary': Jerry O'Connell Hits Back at John Stamos' Comments About His Wife Rebecca Romijn in Bombshell Memoir
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"My first marriage was shattering to me. I was shattered for way too long," expressed Stamos, who first started dating Romijn in 1994. "I mean, a year, okay, good. But it went on [for] years and years."
"In my mind back then, she was the Devil, and I just hated her," he admitted of how Romijn made him feel at the time. "I couldn't believe how much I hated her, and it ruined my life. Looking back, and I talk about it because it's one of the steps in AA where the fourth step is you lay out all your grievances, everything that people did to you. I go like, 'None.'"
John Stamos' memoir hit shelves on Tuesday, October 24.
While he deeply resented Romijn for quite some time, Stamos eventually learned their marital demise wasn’t completely her fault.
"You start thinking, it's like, 'Oh, she wasn't the Devil. Maybe I was as much to blame as her,'" he realized.
"It was very public, and that was very painful. I didn't write much about that, but it's hard," the 60-year-old — who is currently married to Caitlin McHugh Stamos — recalled. "I was very much of the opinion that she dumped me because her career was going great and mine wasn't, and that's humiliating. I don't blame her for it. It was just the perception that people took, and maybe they weren't wrong. She was doing great at that time, and I wasn't."
"That's when I really started to kind of drink a lot," Stamos wrote. "But without that, I never would've known what a real love is, and I would've never straightened up to get someone like Caitlin in my life. If I didn't go through all the things, all the heartache, I wouldn't be who I am today. That's what I hope people take away from it."
