Bob Saget and Kelly Rizzo. Picture by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic through Getty Photos
Kelly Rizzo has a message for critics who assume she moved on too rapidly after the dying of her husband, Bob Saget.
“I’m gonna begin by saying, until you’re a widow or a widower you really have completely no place and no proper to touch upon this, since you have no idea what it’s like,” Rizzo mentioned in a video posted through TikTok on Sunday, March 10. “You simply don’t perceive the extremely advanced and tough and dynamic ideas and emotions that come up throughout this whole course of.”
Within the four-minute and 34-second video, Rizzo defined that after dropping a partner, when it lastly “crosses your thoughts to even take into consideration beginning to date once more, simply having these ideas, you’re feeling responsible, you’re feeling ashamed, you’re feeling horrible, however but you additionally really feel lonely, so that you wanna do it.”
Rizzo mentioned she obtained “help and love” from Saget’s family and friends (particularly his three daughters, Aubrey Saget, Lara Melanie Saget and Jennifer Belle Saget) about her determination to start out courting once more.
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She went on to say that, even with that help community, “you continue to really feel actually bizarre about” leaping again into the courting pool. “However you continue to must really feel okay with it and peace with it in your coronary heart,” she mentioned. “I didn’t personally get to that time till nicely after a yr after Bob had handed to even give it some thought.”
In October 2023, Rizzo spoke brazenly with Further about her “survivor’s guilt” following Saget’s dying. Nevertheless, she admitted that she had reached some extent the place she was “open” to courting once more.
“You are feeling responsible when you’ve got blissful moments or in case you’re not feeling unhappy on a regular basis,” Rizzo mentioned on the time. “You are feeling responsible about that, however then I realized that’s very regular. Now that sufficient time has handed, even his women are at all times like, ‘That’s foolish. Heavenly Bob needs you to be blissful.’”
Rizzo arduous launched her new relationship with Clueless actor Breckin Meyer on the 2024 Grammy Awards in February, two years after Saget’s dying. In line with Rizzo, Meyer has been nothing however supportive as she continues to grieve her late husband.
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“I’m very lucky that I used to be capable of finding somebody who holds house for that and appreciates it and will get it and is powerful sufficient and assured sufficient to know that Bob’s at all times gonna be part of my life,” she mentioned.
Saget and Rizzo had tied the knot in 2018 after three years of courting. The Full Home alum handed away on January 9, 2022, on the age of 65, after being discovered unresponsive in a lodge room in Orlando, Florida. A month later, authorities decided that Saget had died from blunt power trauma to the pinnacle.
“They’ve concluded that he unintentionally hit the again of his head on one thing, thought nothing of it and went to sleep. No medication or alcohol had been concerned,” Saget’s household advised Us Weekly in a February 2022 assertion.
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Now, two years later, Rizzo mentioned that whereas she nonetheless struggles with the lack of her husband, everybody grieves in another way.
“It has been nicely over two years and for each particular person it’s completely different,” Rizzo mentioned through TikTok. “You know the way vital your beloved was in your life, so long as you’re honoring that and honoring them, and being true to your emotions — and you already know that you just’re additionally having the love and help and belief out of your partner’s family members and buddies — then you may’t be doing it flawed.”
She added: “It’s not one dimension suits all. The entire level is there may be completely no room for judgment.”
