Jerry O’Connell says Rebecca Romijn and daughters got ‘physical with me’ over Kamala Harris comments
Jerry O’Connell said his wife Rebecca Romijn and their 17-year-old twin daughters Charlie and Dolly got ‘physical’ with him over his remarks on Kamala Harris.
O’Connell, 52, had made the the political comments watching the returns of the 2024 election in shock at Donald Trump’s triumph.
‘I said something along the lines of: “There was no planning. This is what they get. There should’ve been a primary,”‘ O’Connell told Bill Maher on Club Random.
‘I said something along those lines. I was just spitballing ideas as to – it was a shock, you know? My wife and daughters, without saying anything, became physical with me. They were filled with rage,’ he confessed.
The incident was an example about how he has to be ‘careful’ how he ‘says things,’ O’Connell explained, noting that he lives in California.
He added that his household includes ‘not one, not two but three people who if I made any kind of joke, they’d become very angry with me.’
Jerry O’Connell said his wife Rebecca Romijn and their 17-year-old twin daughters Charlie and Dolly got ‘physical’ with him over his remarks on Kamala Harris; the couple pictured in 2023
O’Connell, 52, pictured with his daughters last year, had made the the political comments watching the returns of the 2024 election in shock at Donald Trump’s triumph
O’Connell had shared earlier that he ‘didn’t think Trump was gonna win. I live in California. I didn’t think he was gonna win from what I was hearing.’
On the same episode, he noted he and Romijn had donated to Harris’ campaign and attended her rally where Megan Thee Stallion performed.
The comments come months after O’Connell finally brought an end to his longstanding feud with Romijn’s previous husband John Stamos.
Stamos and Romijn exchanged vows in 1998 and divorced in 2005, and although she met O’Connell while still married to her first husband, O’Connell has insisted that there were no extramarital ‘shenanigans’ between them.
Romijn said she was ‘blindsided’ by Stamos’ raw depiction of their relationship in his 2023 memoir If You Would Have Told Me, which O’Connell also mocked.
However the two men buried the hatchet at Howie Mandel’s 70th birthday party last November, which Stamos attended with his current wife Caitlin McHugh, 39.
O’Connell posted an Instagram selfie with Stamos and McHugh, joking: ‘First @zohrankmamdani and @realdonaldtrump Then me and @johnstamos You are up @russian_kremlin & zelenskyy_official.’
Stamos had candidly revealed in his memoir that he felt ’emasculated’ during his marriage to Romijn amid the ascent of her star and the decline of his.
‘I said something along the lines of: “There was no planning, this is what they get, there should’ve been a primary,”‘ O’Connell told Bill Maher on Club Random
Harris – whose campaign Romijn and O’Connell donated to – is pictured speaking at Jesse Jackson’s public memorial service at the House of Hope in Chicago earlier this month
The comments come months after O’Connell finally brought an end to his longstanding feud with Romijn’s previous husband John Stamos; Romijn and Stamos pictured in 2000
‘As I’m lifting Rebecca up, I’m losing myself,’ he wrote. ‘She makes it clear that I’m the TV guy and she’s the newly minted star… Somewhere deep inside, I start to believe it.’
He explained that they began ‘trying new things and growing, but not together,’ while noting that it became ‘harder to make time for each other, slow down, disconnect from the chaos of the world, and make eye contact again.’
During their divorce, he ‘hated’ her and regarded her as ‘the Devil,’ the Full House star candidly revealed in the bombshell tell-all autobiogrpahy.
After the memoir was published, Romijn said she was ‘very surprised by all of that, incredibly shocked actually,’ via Entertainment Tonight.
‘I was sort of blindsided by it. But you know, I don’t really want to help him sell his books based on those headlines. So that’s all I really want to say about it.’
O’Connell opted for derision when he was asked about the revelations in Stamos’ book, joking: ‘People gotta make a living, I guess.’
