I completely forgot about Kaley Cuoco’s tumultuous romantic history. I think of her as an upbeat blonde who loves horses and dogs. And who made bank from a show I found annoying and is now starring in a show I really like. And all that is accurate, but she also had a messy personal life. There was that weird thing with Henry Cavill, then she very quickly married former tennis pro Ryan Sweeting and divorced him, then she dated around a bit, then slightly less quickly married equestrian Karl Cook and divorced him too. (Looking up the timeline, I learned she was engaged to another guy in 2012, but they broke it off).
Now, two marriages later, Kaley told Glamour in no uncertain terms that she will never get married again. She still wants love and a partnership in the future, but she says marriage won’t be a part of that.
Kaley Cuoco knows one thing for sure: A third marriage is not in the cards.
“I will never get married again,” the actor tells Glamour in our April cover story. And just in case you thing she’s being a tad hyperbolic, Cuoco doubles down: “Absolutely not. You can literally put that on the cover.”
The Flight Attendant star has been married twice. Her first marriage to tennis player Ryan Sweeting lasted three years, from 2013 to 2016. The 36-year-old announced the end of her second marriage to professional equestrian Karl Cook in September of last year, three years after they wed at a horse stable in San Diego.
But don’t mistake her opposition to marriage for an opposition to love.
“I would love to have a long-lasting relationship or a partnership,” she tells us. “I believe in love because I’ve had incredible relationships. I know that they’re out there. I like being someone’s partner and having that companionship.”
For the moment, Cuoco remains happily single, focusing on her own well-being after a year of nonstop stress due to The Flight Attendant’s grueling schedule as well as her divorce.
“I’d have these emotional scenes and then I’d go home and cry over my personal life,” says Cuoco. “I developed a rash that went from my lower stomach down my leg. It lasted for seven months. I discovered through therapy and through my doctors that it was completely emotional. That’s how the stress was [showing up] physically.”
The former Big Bang actor adds that she’s currently in therapy, where she’s learning to forgive herself for “mistakes” she’s made in previous relationships, and to stop viewing life through a binary lens—specifically when it comes to balancing her career and her relationships. “I’m so black-and-white, and trying to find the gray is just very hard for me,” she says. “I want to have a relationship that I give my time to and that the person feels [like they’re] really part of my life. I get so distracted with work and I want to have that in the future.”
She continues, “I know now what I wasn’t doing [in previous relationships]. I want to change that. I really know where I’ve fucked up, and I don’t want to do that again.”
What Kaley said about crying and the stress rash shows that divorce was harder on her than she initially indicated, which makes sense and I feel for her. She’s better off without that guy anyway, he was tacky and looked like the villain in a WWII movie. So it’s a good move for her to be single for now and focus on herself and work. The Flight Attendant is a bit of a reinvention for her — she got it made and she’s an executive producer — so her career is hot right now. She has so much money from Big Bang Theory, but this seems to be a new era for her.
As for what Kaley says about not getting married again… I mean, she did say something similar about marriage being ruined after her first divorce, but she was already engaged when she said that. This time she told them to put it on the cover to hold her accountable! It seems like she’s soured on the institution of marriage, but still wants a relationship. Getting married and divorced gets expensive even with solid pre-nups, and her past marriages were such whirlwinds and seemed dysfunctional. The tennis guy moved in after their first date, they were engaged within three months, and married a few months after that. Their marriage was plagued with stories about bad fights and his underemployment. Then she and her second husband bonded over their shared love of animals, but they didn’t live together for nearly the first two years of their three-year marriage. From what Kaley says to Glamour, it sounds like she’s being really thoughtful about her past and not repeating mistakes and she’s being very intentional about what she wants going forward.
‘The Big Bang Theory’ Finale Party at The Langham Huntington Hotel Featuring: Kaley Cuoco, Karl Cook Where: Los Angeles, California, United States When: 01 May 2019 Credit: Sheri Determan/WENN.com 
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