“Oh, my God, I don’t remember my life before this series! And I went through a divorce about the show,” the actress, 35, told Variety whilst reflecting the CBS sitcom’s 12-season run during an interview published on Wednesday, February 24.
Cuoco then found that she and the former tennis player, now 33,”got married in, like, six seconds.”
The 8 Simple Rules alum, who previously dated her Big Bang costar Johnny Galecki, got engaged to Sweeting in September 2013 after just three months of dating. They tied the knot which December on New Year’s Eve. After announcing their separation in September 2015, the former couple finalized their divorce in May 2016.
The information of Cuoco and the athlete’s carve broke days after the season 9 premiere of Big Bang, in which she performed Penny. The show lasted three more years before Jim Parsons, who starred as Sheldon Cooper, pulled the plug in .
“Jim said,’I really don’t believe I can continue ,”’ she recalled to Variety on Wednesday of a meeting in cocreator Chuck Lorre’s office. “And I had been so shocked I was actually like,’Continue with what?’ Like, I didn’t even know what he was referring to. I thought we were — I’m so blown away right now. ”’
However, the cast finally decided to”go out together” as they came in, according to Cuoco.
The Flight Attendant star remarried before the show ended. She walked down the aisle using Karl Cook at June 2018, seven months after the equestrian, 30, proposed. They did not go in together until March 2020.
“It’s worked great for us,” Cuoco stated on Conan in April 2020. “I mean, everybody has a million opinions concerning what we do, but they were very shocked we did not live together. But it’s been great.”
