For all his mishegas and misdirection, Chicago White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf is right on one thing: It’s either now or later.

Either he’s asking the city and state for more than a billion bucks of public money for a new stadium right now or someone else is going to be asking for it down the road.

The prospects of the White Sox leaving town have been rumored for months, from the rumors of a Nashville interest to Reinsdorf’s more direct insinuation in a recent interview with Crain’s Chicago that someone will buy the team and want to move it.

With his 88th birthday coming up, Reinsdorf’s focus right now isn’t on the team’s improved defensive outlook or the Bulls’ march to the Play-In Tournament. He’s all about a new stadium.

This rare media interview with Crain’s immediately followed his trip to Springfield, Ill., to schmooze with state legislators in his quest for a new stadium that would be funded by someone other than him.

Few people outside of Reinsdorf’s immediate orbit are enthused about the idea of funding another ballpark for him. But in Reinsdorf’s world, Chicagoans are all downwind of his cigar smoke, forever looking for a breath of fresh air.

These days, it’s offensive to our more educated sensibilities when sports franchise owners ask for public money. It’s wildly offensive when it’s coming from Reinsdorf, a rich owner of two teams with his hand out for the second time.

It’s not surprising that Jerry is seeking “free” money, of course. He’s an owner. It’s what they do.

Reinsdorf still has his defenders who are loyal to him, but even they can’t argue that the White Sox are not a perennial disappointment under his leadership. Sure, you can shift the blame to the front office or the players or even the fans, but you can’t argue the facts. Jerry is the boss and his business is bad.

Just a few years ago, the Sox were the darlings of the city, a 93-win team with strong personalities and a bright future. Now, after a series of calamities, they’re entrenched again in the AL Central bunker — the big-city losers in a small-market division.

And Reinsdorf is back to his late-’80s tricks, trying to convince everyone that a new ballpark will not only be some kind of competitive panacea for his club but also a boon to Chicago and the state of Illinois. And if he doesn’t get what he wants, well, the team might not be playing in Chicago in the near future. He’s just trying to help.

Back in the day, he used Tampa-St. Petersburg to get his new park in Chicago. Nowadays, he’s not going to realistically threaten to move the team himself. In that interview with Crain’s, he’s threatening that the prospective owners who will one day buy the Sox, likely after his passing, will probably threaten to move the team. So just give him the money now to prevent that from happening.

I’m here to say that in that regard, he’s not wrong.

Whoever buys the Sox, whether it’s in a few years or a decade from now, will probably want a new stadium if the team is still playing at Guaranteed Rate Field. Now, there are some potential owners who might see the value in keeping the Sox where they are and doing the things to fix up the park and the surrounding area that Reinsdorf is unwilling to do. But I can see it playing out like it did when Tom Ricketts and his family bought the Cubs. Ricketts waited until after his first season as the owner to unveil a plan that would have taken control of existing tax dollars to fund money-making improvements for his private business.

Ricketts was unsuccessful at getting hundreds of millions of dollars (though he did get some help) to renovate Wrigley Field and its campus. But he got it done just in time for the Cubs to finally win a World Series.

The reason the Cubs didn’t move to Rosemont or anywhere else is because Wrigley Field is a cash cow. Guaranteed Rate Field is not.

The White Sox have a smaller fan base than the Cubs, and their stadium is not a tourist attraction. So the owners could threaten to move. But that’s in the future. Right now, the state and city have more pressing issues, financial or otherwise. Gov. J.B. Pritzker has said he’s not looking to give money to team owners for new stadiums. Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson, who ran as a progressive, is under pressure from two teams now looking to move.

From a public relations standpoint, unknown owners would get more support for asking for tax dollars than Reinsdorf. For all the philanthropic work the Sox have done in the community, for all the loyalty he’s shown to his employees and for all the genuine love he has for baseball, Reinsdorf has squandered all the goodwill he’s ever had.

Reinsdorf has said for years he wants his sons to sell the team when he passes. The partners in his ownership group, some of whom have been with him since he bought the team in 1981, will demand it. But the Reinsdorf family will make out very well when it happens.

In 2021, Michael and Jonathan Reinsdorf offered to buy ownership stakes from the team’s limited partners, albeit at a low valuation. Some partners did take them up on it, which has added to the family’s stake in the franchise. Jerry Reinsdorf told Crain’s he owns more than the 19 percent of the team that Forbes has reported.

An agreed-upon deal for public money for a new stadium will add significant value to the franchise, which is already estimated to be worth around $2 billion. So it makes sense he’s trying to square that away now. Think of this as estate planning.

If the White Sox’s days in Bridgeport are numbered, it’s a shame. For all the whining you hear about it, it’s actually a pretty good South Side location, just off the highway and near a Red Line stop.

The stadium is facing the wrong way and the area surrounding it has the ambience of the Woodfield Mall parking lot, but the Armour Square neighborhood has been the home of the team since 1910, so there’s some history there. The Sox never did enough to create a “ballpark village” type of environment, nor did they market the stadium and surrounding neighborhood well enough to convince tourists to check it out.

If the team were good, year after year, attendance would reflect it. But don’t tell Reinsdorf that. He’s in excuse mode. It’s a PR strategy and a way of life.

In one of the more galling parts of his Crain’s interview, Reinsdorf told Crain’s reporter Greg Hinz that the team’s attendance issues were solely because of the ballpark’s location and not the result of his decades of poor decision-making.

Reinsdorf says Sox need a new stadium to compete — and stay in Chicago

— Crain’s Chicago Business (@CrainsChicago) February 21, 2024

Reinsdorf pointed out that after the team’s World Series victory in 2005, “we didn’t crack the 3 million (attendance) mark” in 2006.

In that season, the Sox “only” drew 2.96 million, which remains the franchise’s high mark and proves the opposite of his point. That showed what happens when the Sox’s success pushes people to buy season tickets. It was an increase of more than a million fans from 2004, the year before the World Series.

After the ballpark opened to big crowds, attendance cratered in the mid-1990s after the strike canceled the Sox’s chance to win a World Series. Reinsdorf was a labor hawk and a public villain in that fiasco.

After the Sox won the World Series a decade later, the team couldn’t build on that momentum and attendance then declined for eight consecutive seasons, going as low as 1.65 million in 2014.

In that span, the team had five losing seasons and made the playoffs just once. After winning the division in thrilling fashion in 2008, the Sox embarked on an 11-year run of missing the postseason.

The team drew 2 million again in 2022, the year after it won its division. In that 2021 season, ballpark attendance was curtailed by pandemic regulations. But after they were lifted, the Sox were drawing weekend crowds of more than 30,000 fans a game. The Cubs were down and the Sox were up.

Last year, the Sox had the largest attendance decrease in baseball (minus-339,731, according to Baseball-Reference) and it wasn’t because it’s a schlep to get to Bridgeport. Basically, all of baseball saw an attendance increase or stayed relatively flat except the Nationals and White Sox. Washington was down 1,982 fans per game and the Sox lost 4,194. The fans have turned against this team and these attendance patterns show, again, if you win, the fans will come to the South Side. And if you don’t, they won’t.

Sox fans are tired of being disappointed, and after a 101-loss season, it’ll be a struggle for the Sox to draw 1.6 million in 2024. Also, the team’s well-liked TV broadcaster Jason Benetti left for a job with the Detroit Tigers.

Meanwhile, the Tampa Bay Rays, who are still trying to escape the dome built for Reinsdorf’s team and draw like a minor-league team, make the playoffs nearly every year against the stiff competition of the AL East. Of course, they are a progressive, savvy organization that has figured out how to win consistently on a shoestring budget. Reinsdorf, meanwhile, waxes poetic about how much he loved David Eckstein because he tried hard.

A South Loop ballpark in the midst of a newly developed neighborhood along the river is certainly intriguing. The renderings look fantastic, as renderings always do. The idea of a new stadium, a restart, sounds great, but is it worth well over a billion dollars in tax money?

A rendering of a potential new ballpark for the White Sox in the South Loop. (Courtesy of Related Midwest)

The Cubs are the only team in town that brings in a significant amount of new money to the city because of Wrigley Field. People will visit Chicago to go to Cubs games and then spend money around the city. Now it’s not as much money as the team’s research would have you believe, but it’s not nothing.

The Sox have a smaller fan base than the Cubs and they don’t have the benefit of being in a bustling North Side neighborhood and a tourist attraction of a ballpark. With local support, they’re a team that should be drawing around 2 million to 2.5 million a year. But they need to win.

Reinsdorf had enough of the failed rebuild (and its high payrolls) last season, firing his most trusted executive, Kenny Williams, and general manager Rick Hahn. In rare public comments, Reinsdorf said he was in a hurry to get better so he promoted the team’s farm director, Chris Getz, to GM. Getz is rebuilding the team on the cheap, focusing on sure-handed defenders and clubhouse guys. Projected 2024 win totals vary, from 65.6 (PECOTA) to 67 (FanGraphs).

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With the team’s baseball present looking grim, why not look to the future?

With the Bears also fishing for help for a new stadium, either in the city or on their land in Arlington Heights, Reinsdorf is trying to be proactive for his own slice of the pie.

The financing structures for a new park, as discussed by Reinsdorf and the developers Related Midwest, involve an existing city hotel tax and possibly taking on and extending the debt for the Sox’s current park and for Soldier Field over the next few decades or so. They also want a special taxing district and to use the money the city has already pledged to help with infrastructure improvements in the area. They want a lot and they’re promising a lot.

But of course, these kinds of stadium plans always rely on rosy tax projections and promises that don’t often come true. But it won’t be Jerry’s problem.

It’s been 33 years since New Comiskey Park opened after the governor and state leaders stopped the clock (literally) to help Reinsdorf.

Where will this franchise be in another 33 years?

Reinsdorf will be long gone. The politicians will have moved on. The White Sox could be playing in the South Loop or Nashville or Portland.

Maybe by then, the team will have finally signed a free agent to a $100 million contract. Maybe by then, the White Sox, and their fans, will be happy with their lot in life and in baseball. Maybe the Sox will have added another World Series trophy to their case.

The word “maybe” allows for all kinds of possibilities without any guarantees. Kind of like when an owner tells you how perfect a new stadium will be for everyone.

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(Top rendering: Courtesy of Related Midwest)

ARLINGTON, Texas – Jerry Jones walked to the locker room in shock Sunday night. The owner and general manager of the Dallas Cowboys didn't think what he just saw was possible. It's one thing to lose a playoff game that you should be winning, but it's another to be embarrassed at home while you're on a sixteen-game winning streak.

Jones summed up Dallas' 48-32 wild-card loss to the Green Bay Packers as one of the most surprising outcomes since he's been involved in the sport. He said several times that he was “floored” and added that the outcome was “beyond my understanding. .”

“I have no comments, questions or answers as to how or why we didn't do what we wanted to tonight,” Jones said. “I say this to our fans: how much you deserve that we don't have this ending.

“This seems like the most painful (loss) because we all had such high expectations and we had hope for this team.”

Jones isn't going anywhere. He remains owner and GM. But after such a defeat at the end of the season, changes need to be considered. Securing the No. 2 seed in the NFC Playoffs set Dallas up for what appeared to be a rematch with the No. 1 seed San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship Game, a round the Cowboys haven't had since the 1995 season reaches. Losing to the seventh-seeded Packers was highly unlikely. Being completely dominated makes it one of the worst losses in franchise history.

Jones declined to discuss details about coach Mike McCarthy's future. McCarthy has one year left on his contract. After last week's season finale win at Washington, Jones spoke highly of what McCarthy had done in his fourth year as the team's head coach and in his first year as the offensive play caller. But Jones also added, “We'll see how each game goes,” regarding McCarthy's job security.

McCarthy usually meets with reporters at a podium about 15 minutes after each game. On Sunday, more than 30 minutes passed before he walked to the podium. He then answered six questions for about 3 1/2 minutes.

“No. 1, we're very disappointed, to a man,” he said. “I don't think anyone saw this coming. … We didn't succeed at any stage. We're hurting, we're disappointed, every man.”

He was then asked specifically about his job status.

“I think the most important thing is that we are disappointed,” he replied. “I have a whole team in the locker room that is hurting. I didn't think beyond the outcome of this match.”

Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy: “I don't think anyone saw this coming. We were not successful at any stage.”

When asked about his future: “I think the biggest thing is that we are disappointed. …I haven't thought beyond the outcome of this game.” pic.twitter.com/qMeRBTI8YE

— Jon Machota (@jonmachota) January 15, 2024

There's no doubt that McCarthy has put Dallas in position to make deep playoff runs over the past three seasons. It has won the NFC East twice in that time, winning 12 games each season. He has enjoyed regular-season success not seen since their dynasty in the 1990s, when the Cowboys won three Super Bowls in four seasons. But the playoff success didn't materialize, which is the biggest reason he was hired to replace Jason Garrett. Reaching the playoffs and winning a playoff game wasn't enough. This was a group that saw the Super Bowl as a legitimate possibility.

McCarthy believes he built things the right way. He can point to winning the Super Bowl in Year 5 when he was head coach of the Packers. But Jones may not be willing to give him a fifth season after Sunday's loss, in which Dallas trailed 27-0 late in the second quarter and 48-16 early in the fourth.

“This is a painful loss,” McCarthy said. “We have put ourselves in position to play a home game. We had a great opportunity. I felt very good about the week of preparation. We felt we were a good fit for each other. But we obviously chose the wrong day to have a bad day.”

Jones, standing outside the locker room on Sunday night, insisted several times that he hadn't given much thought to McCarthy's future. It was somewhat hard to believe considering how quickly the game spiraled out of control. He said nothing had been agreed on when he would next meet with McCarthy.

“What I planned to do was be with him tomorrow to go over how we played today and get ready for the week ahead,” Jones said. “That was on the agenda. Tomorrow my agenda will be to fire the team.”

Jones was later asked about other teams already interviewing head coaching candidates and the possible outcome this could have for the Cowboys if he ultimately wanted to go in a different direction.

“That's no problem,” Jones said. 'Not at all. The fact that coaches have interviewed, not interviewed, there are thirty-odd coaches (in the NFL) on 32 teams, so there are a thousand coaches that are one way or another, and that's just the ones in the league. There are many coaches.

“I know how to do that and how to handle it all. Those aren't high-pressure situations, coaches. … We definitely have a background in what happens after you lose a playoff game. We have too much experience with that.”

On Sunday, Cowboys defensive coordinator Dan Quinn was a popular name mentioned when talking about future Cowboys coaches. He is one of the favorites to become the next head coach of the Seattle Seahawks. Dallas' defense was as responsible for Sunday's loss as any part of the team. Six-time Super Bowl champion coach Bill Belichick is clearly a popular name. But the former New England Patriots head coach may not be a great fit for Jones. According to online sportsbook BetOnline.ag, Belichick would be the favorite to become the Cowboys' next head coach if Jones were to part ways with McCarthy.

Cowboys QB Dak Prescott said he was “shocked” by today's wild-card loss to the Packers.

“I clearly didn't play well.”

How do the Cowboys get past this and finally have playoff success?

“I wish I had that answer for you.” pic.twitter.com/G56wnC9SoG

— Jon Machota (@jonmachota) January 15, 2024

Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott certainly didn't play anything like the All-Pro and second-team MVP candidate he showed during the regular season. Much like last season's playoff loss at San Francisco in the divisional round, Dallas' franchise QB had one of the worst games of his career. He threw for just 87 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions in the first half. His rapport with first-team All-Pro wide receiver CeeDee Lamb was perhaps the worst it has been all season in the first two quarters.

Prescott was asked after the game about the speculation surrounding McCarthy's coaching future in Dallas.

“He was great,” Prescott said. “I don't know how that is possible, but I understand the business. Then, to be honest, it should also be about me. Thanks to him I had the season I had. This team has had the success they have had because of him. I understand it's about winning the Super Bowl. That's the standard of this league and damn sure the standard of this place, so I understand, but in that case, add me to the list.

(Photo of Mike McCarthy and Dak Prescott: Matthew Pearce/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

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Zijn opmerkingen komen nadat de Full House-ster, 60, een vernietigend beeld schetste van zijn vroegere huwelijk met Romjin, 51, in zijn boek If You Would Have Told Me, dat in oktober werd uitgebracht.

Terwijl hij het project promootte, vertelde de vader van een kind zelfs aan Howard Stern dat hij zich ‘ontkracht’ voelde terwijl de carrière van zijn eerste vrouw de zijne overschaduwde, en tegen het einde van hun huwelijk ‘kon hij niet geloven hoeveel’ hij ‘haar haatte’.

In reactie op de verklaringen van Stamos gaf O’Connell een interview waarin hij zei dat zijn uithalen naar Romjin ‘een beetje eng’ waren.

”Weet je, het is niet aan mij om commentaar te geven op hoe ik erover denk, weet je? Ik kan je vertellen hoe mijn vrouw erover dacht, oké?’ hij vertelde TMZ. ‘En van wat ik zag, was mijn vrouw teleurgesteld. Ik denk dat het een teleurstelling voor mijn vrouw was.’

Het boek, getiteld If You Would Have Told Me, werd in oktober gepubliceerd en bevatte een vernietigende weergave van het huwelijk van John en Rebecca; John en Rebecca afgebeeld in 2003

Hij was net zo openhartig toen hij het boek promootte (foto), en vertelde Howard Stern dat hij zich ‘ontkracht’ voelde terwijl Rebecca’s carrière zijn carrière overschaduwde.

Hij herhaalde: ‘Ik kan niet spreken over de emoties van mijn vrouw, ik kan je gewoon vertellen wat ik heb waargenomen en ik denk dat mijn vrouw teleurgesteld was.’

Zijn interviewers vergeleken de situatie van Romjin met die van Justin Timberlake, die onlangs werd vernield in de memoires van Britney Spears, The Woman In Me.

Jerry keek naar de situatie in het algemeen en erkende dat ‘dat spul van Timberlake-Britney Spears boeken verkoopt. Ik bedoel, dit is – we zitten allemaal in een bedrijf.’

Hij wees op leden van de Britse koninklijke familie, waaronder de koning en prins William, die prins Harry in zijn boek Spare over de kolen harkte.

‘Hoe voelen al deze mensen zich? Ze zijn kapot. Ik denk dat het een schok is. Ik denk dat het verraad is’, zegt de 49-jarige Sliders-acteur.

Jerry zei eerder dat de opmerkingen over Rebecca in het boek van John hem ‘een beetje eng’ vonden.

‘Mijn familie werd onlangs genoemd in een tell-all en je weet dat het een beetje eng is, maar ik bedoel, mensen moeten de kost verdienen, denk ik, het gebeurt gewoon’, vertelde O’Connell. TMZdonderdag in een apart interview. ‘We leven in een tijd waarin mensen deze dingen gewoon willen weten.

‘Ik denk niet dat ik ooit alles zal vertellen – ik denk dat ik een aantal geheimen mee het graf in ga nemen – maar de mensen zijn er dol op.’

De Crossing Jordan-ster en de in Berkeley, Californië geboren schoonheid, 51, stapten in het huwelijksbootje twee jaar na haar scheiding van Stamos, 60, met wie ze van 1998 tot 2005 getrouwd was.

Jerry zei eerder dat de opruiende opmerkingen over Rebecca in het boek van John hem ‘een beetje eng’ vonden, en dat hij niet denkt dat hij er ooit zelf een zal schrijven.

Stamos sprak negatief over zijn huwelijk met Romijn in If You Would Have Told Me, de memoires die hij in oktober uitbracht. Vorige week afgebeeld in Miami Beach, Florida

O’Connell en Romijn zijn ouders van de 14-jarige tweelingdochters Charlie Tamara Tulip en Dolly Rebecca Rose, die later deze maand hun verjaardag vieren.

De acteur, die onder meer te zien is in films als Jerry Maguire en Stand By Me, werd door de outlet gevraagd of mensen die tell-alls schrijven vooraf op de hoogte moeten stellen van de mensen die ze in het boek noemen.

‘Iemand met wie mijn vrouw eerder getrouwd was, heeft een boek geschreven en we hebben geen waarschuwing gekregen’, zei hij, zonder de naam van Stamos te noemen. ‘Moeten ze iemand een seintje geven?’

‘Ik ben nog nooit eerder getrouwd geweest, dus ik kan niet uit ervaring spreken, maar laten we zeggen dat God het verhoede, mijn vrouw en ik zijn uit elkaar gegaan en ik heb een alles-verhaal geschreven over mijn vrouw… er zou niets te vertellen zijn. , we zijn ouder en het zou behoorlijk saai zijn.’

Hij grapte dat de inhoud van een boek over hun leven zou gaan over hoe ze hun kinderen ervan weerhouden te vapen of te falen in de geometrie, en voegde eraan toe: ‘Wil je dat in een allesomvattend boek lezen?’

O’Connell zei dat hij Romijn ‘waarschijnlijk’ zou waarschuwen voor wat hij ook zei als hij een allesomvattend bericht zou schrijven.

Tijdens een optreden op de CBS-programma The TalkAfgelopen maand wilde O’Connell niet in detail treden over de opmerkingen van Stamos over Romijn omdat ‘er kinderen bij betrokken zijn.’

Hij zei: ‘De ex-man van mijn vrouw heeft onlangs een biografie geschreven, waarin op een negatieve manier naar mijn vrouw werd verwezen. En veel mensen hebben mij daarover in de pers gevraagd, en ik zou gemakkelijk kunnen zeggen: ‘Fuck, hoe durf je mij dat te vragen?’

O’Connell zei: ‘Mijn familie werd onlangs genoemd in een tell-all en je weet dat het een beetje eng is, maar ik bedoel dat mensen de kost moeten verdienen, denk ik, het gebeurt gewoon’

O’Connell zei in de CBS-show The Talk op 13 november dat hij niet in detail wil treden over de opmerkingen van Stamos over Romijn omdat ‘er kinderen bij betrokken zijn’.

O’Connell en Romijn, 51, trouwden in 2007, twee jaar na haar scheiding van Stamos, 60, met wie ze van 1998 tot 2005 getrouwd was.

O’Connell zei dat commentaar op de opmerkingen van Stamos ‘de aandacht zou vestigen op een situatie waar ik niet op wil ingaan.

‘Er zijn kinderen bij betrokken, tienerkinderen die alles op internet lezen; dus je wilt dat vuur niet aanwakkeren,’ zei O’Connell, terwijl hij applaus kreeg van het studiopubliek.

In een interview met Mensen Op 19 oktober zei Stamos, terwijl hij zijn nieuwe memoires, If You Would Have Told Me, promootte, dat hij tijdens het einde van hun huwelijk verbitterd was jegens Romijn.

‘In mijn gedachten was ze toen de duivel, en ik haatte haar gewoon’, vertelde Stamos aan de publicatie. ‘Ik kon niet geloven hoeveel ik haar haatte, en het verwoestte mijn leven.’

Later voegde hij eraan toe: ‘Het was heel erg de mening dat ze mij dumpte omdat haar carrière geweldig verliep en de mijne niet, en dat is vernederend.

‘Ik neem het haar niet kwalijk. Het was gewoon de perceptie die mensen hadden, en misschien hadden ze het niet mis. Zij deed het toen uitstekend en ik niet.’

Vorige maand onthulde O’Connell dat hij en zijn echtgenote geen waarschuwing kregen van de Full House-ster voordat hij over hen schreef in zijn nieuwe memoires.

Toen O’Connell in oktober op Access Hollywood verscheen, vertelde hij presentatoren Mario Lopez en Kit Hoover dat hij en zijn vrouw over het boek hoorden nadat het al was uitgebracht.

De acteur zei dat hij niet in detail wil treden over de opmerkingen van Stamos over Romijn omdat ‘er kinderen bij betrokken zijn’, aangezien hij en Romijn ouders zijn van de 14-jarige tweelingdochters Charlie Tamara Tulip en Dolly Rebecca Rose.

‘We krijgen geen enkele waarschuwing’, zei hij. ‘Wij komen er net als ieder ander achter.’

O’Connell weigerde vervolgens commentaar te geven op de vraag of zijn vrouw al dan niet geschokt was door de opmerkingen die Stamos maakte over hun scheiding in zijn boek, dat op 24 oktober werd uitgebracht.

‘Het is niet echt mijn plaats om dat te zeggen’, zei hij in antwoord op de vraag. ‘Ik heb liever dat mijn vrouw daarover praat. Het gaat zo goed met mijn vrouw en ik vandaag.’

In zijn nieuwe memoires sprak Stamos openhartig over zijn ‘mislukte’ eerste huwelijk met het voormalige model.

In het People-interview onthulde Stamos ook dat hij ‘verbrijzeld’ was nadat ze hun zevenjarige huwelijk hadden beëindigd en zei dat hij ‘haar haatte’ tijdens hun scheiding.

De dierenarts van het General Hospital bekende: ‘Mijn eerste huwelijk was een ramp voor mij. Ik ben ook veel te lang kapot geweest.

‘Ik bedoel, een jaar, oké, goed,’ vervolgde hij. ‘Maar het ging door [for] jaren en jaren.’

Stamos zei dat hij na hun scheiding sterk afhankelijk was van alcohol als coping-mechanisme en zijn wrok jegens haar pas verwerkte nadat hij de stappen in AA had doorlopen.

O’Connell en Romijn werden in april gefotografeerd tijdens het White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in Washington, DC

In zijn nieuwe memoires sprak Stamos openhartig over zijn ‘mislukte’ eerste huwelijk met het voormalige model. Vorige week afgebeeld in Miami Beach, Florida

In zijn nieuwe memoires sprak hij openhartig over zijn ‘mislukte’ eerste huwelijk met het voormalige model. Afgebeeld in LA in 2000

Tijdens promoties voor het boek onthulde Stamos ook dat hij ‘verbrijzeld’ was nadat ze hun zevenjarige huwelijk hadden beëindigd en zei dat hij ‘haar haatte’ tijdens hun scheiding. Afgebeeld in LA in 2000

Stamos onthulde ook dat hij een speciaal geschenk heeft bewaard dat zijn ex-vrouw hem had gegeven toen ze samen waren.

In Stamos’ bombastische memoires vertelt hij over zijn alcoholisme en zijn afkickkliniek.

Hij vertelde ook over het ontdekken dat zijn overleden vriend en Full House-costar, Bob Saget, was overleden.

De Emmy-genomineerde sprak ook over seksueel misbruik en onthulde dat hij in het begin van zijn carrière meerdere neuscorrecties had ondergaan.

In februari 2018 trouwde hij met actrice Caitlin McHugh, die 23 jaar jonger is dan hij, na een ontmoeting op de set van Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Twee maanden later verwelkomden ze hun zoon, Billy.

Many fans have shown interest in it Johannes Stamos‘ new memoir – and that includes his ex-wife’s teenage daughters, Rebecca Romijn.

“My children are 14 and they see what we see now,” says Romijn’s husband, Jerry O’Connellshared on SiriusXMs Andy Cohen Live on Monday, November 13. “There is no more hiding, there are no more limitations, there are no more things hidden from them.”

O’Connell, 49, and Romijn, 51, welcomed their daughters, Charlie and Dolly, in 2008, a year after they tied the knot. Romijn’s former marriage to Stamos, 60, is one of the biggest topics discussed in his new book, If you had told mewhich hit the shelves last month.

In the memoir, Stamos recalled “losing himself” while “lifting” Rebecca during their 10-year relationship, writing that the actress was too “busy with her career and new friends” to notice him “slipping away.”

In addition to referring to a “betrayal” that led to the end of their marriage, Stamos compared Romijn to “the devil” during their 2004 divorce, which was finalized the following year. He noted that it took “years and years” for him to gain a new perspective on the split People in October: ‘You start to think, ‘Oh, she wasn’t the devil. Maybe I was as much to blame as they were.’”

As the book’s revelations made headlines, O’Connell joked that he and Romijn whispered about it and rolled their eyes. “But it’s kind of crazy when, you know, your kids come to breakfast and say, ‘Hey mom, your ex has a book out and he’s calling you the devil.’ What are your thoughts?’” he added. “Why did he call you that?” And that’s where it gets interesting, and it is interesting. However, we have no secrets.”

O’Connell noted that he felt he didn’t need to read the book when it came out, as he and Romijn Stamos heard talk about it in a radio interview with Howard Stern. “I said, ‘Let’s listen to this,’ and I have to say, after listening to that interview, … some interest [in] reading the book disappeared,” he explained.

However, O’Connell further claimed that he has “read it in secret” and that he “has a copy that I am secretly hiding.” Host Andy Cohen didn’t seem to believe his guest’s words as he responded by saying, “No, that’s not what you’re saying.”

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Also on Monday, O’Connell talked about why he postponed discussing the book The conversation. “My wife’s ex-husband recently wrote a biography that referred to my wife in a negative way,” he told viewers. “And a lot of people have asked me about that in the press, and it would be easy for me to say, ‘Fuck you! How dare you ask me that!’ But in reality it would draw attention to a situation I don’t want to participate in.”

He continued: “There are kids involved, teenage kids who read everything on the internet, so you don’t want to fuel that fire.”