Kaley Cuoco is getting candid concerning the aftermath of her 2022 divorce from Karl Cook dinner.
“It was the premiere of the second season of Flight Attendantand I awoke that morning, I used to be so depressed and so unhappy, I couldn’t even breathe and I used to be simply laying on the ground. I actually thought I used to be gonna die. I actually did. I mentioned, ‘What am I doing?’” Cuoco, 40, mentioned throughout a current interview, which is about to air Monday, February 9, on The Drew Barrymore Presentper Leisure Weekly.
Cuoco famous that the second was “the worst morning” of her life, regardless of considering the premiere of Flight Attendant — which was cancelled in 2024 after two seasons at Max — was “imagined to to be one of the best evening.”
“It’s so loopy these issues generally occur on the similar time,” she mentioned. “My staff came to visit to get me prepared, they usually actually acquired me prepared on the ground. I couldn’t stand up. I’m like, ‘I can’t go. I can’t go wherever. I blew up my life. My life’s over.’ I really thought that. By no means getting married once more. I’m by no means gonna have youngsters. That is it.”
Cuoco continued, “I knew, after I was laying on that flooring in my home, I believed, ‘Oh my God, that is what they discuss. That is the bottom level I may get.’”
Three weeks later, Cuoco met Tom Pelphrey. The pair, who’re at the moment engagedare dad and mom to daughter Matila, 2.

“I had prayed, and I really feel like my soul died,” she mentioned. I really feel like my soul died, and I had additionally mentioned — I feel I did {a magazine}. It was like, ‘I’m by no means getting married once more.’ I mentioned it, I believed that within the second, (after which) met Tom.”
In Cuoco’s perspective, it’s OK to vary your opinion on marriage.
“Typically you simply change your thoughts and that’s OK,” she mentioned. “You most likely didn’t know I used to be laying on the ground earlier than my premiere able to die, that’s true… It nonetheless chokes me up as a result of I can bear in mind it so clearly, nevertheless it made me an entire new individual. However it takes a very long time. It takes a very long time to determine that out and a whole lot of forgiveness.”
Cuoco started courting Cook dinner, now 35, in 2016 after a three-year marriage to tennis professional Ryan Sweeting. Cuoco and Cook dinner tied the knot in 2018, asserting their separation three years later. The pair’s divorce was finalized in 2022. That very same yr, Cuoco confirmed she was courting Pelphrey, now 43.
Whereas reflecting on his parenting with Cuoco, Pelphrey completely instructed Us Weekly final month that the Massive Bang Principle actress is “nice.”
“Thank god she’s there as a result of we’ve just a little lady, and he or she’s a daddy’s lady, and I’ve a tough time saying no to something,” Pelphrey shared. “So we want Kaley to lay down the legislation.”
Pelphrey gushed that being a father and parenting with Cuoco is “actually one of the best half” of his life, including, “Yeah, it rewires you. It simply type of occurs. I really feel every thing’s completely different — the priorities are completely different.”

