Bob Saget’s widow, Kelly Rizzo, recently appeared at the 2024 Grammy Awards with her new boyfriend, actor Breckin Meyer.
Rizzo expressed that it took time for her to believe that Saget would approve of her moving on.
“It took a while to get to the point where I’m like, ‘OK, I think [Bob would] be happy with it,’” Rizzo said.
Kelly Rizzo, who was married to Bob Saget until his death in 2022, made her public debut with new boyfriend Breckin Meyer on Sunday. https://t.co/toA1qpVhd0
— Entertainment Weekly (@EW) February 8, 2024
She also shared the importance of receiving support and blessings from Saget’s children before entering a new relationship.
“It’s meant everything,” she said in 2023. “Even though it’s something that you don’t think you need permission for, it meant everything to me to have their blessing and just knowing that they want me to be happy and that they love me.”
“And the two of them saying that Bob would want me to be happy meant everything because they’re his kids. They knew him best.”
“I’d love to think that Bob would want me to be happy, too, but to hear it from them is just a totally different level,” Rizzo said. “And it meant the world just to hear, ‘Hey, we trust you. We love you. We know you’re going to do what’s right, and we want you to be happy.’ To continually have their support – I couldn’t ask for a greater gift.”
Bob Saget’s widow Kelly Rizzo and her new boyfriend Breckin Meyer step out separately in LA – after debuting romance at Grammys party https://t.co/SPtlVJmJNh
— Daily Mail Celebrity (@DailyMailCeleb) February 7, 2024
Rizzo was married to Saget from 2018 until his untimely death in 2022, and she has since launched a podcast, “Comfort Food with Kelly Rizzo,” to process her grief and engage in lighthearted discussions about the topic with guests, including comedians.
“I had never lost anybody before,” she said. “So I was new to this world… And having conversations about grief can still be a little taboo. Nobody really wants to talk about it because it’s not the most fun topic. But I thought, ‘How can I make this more comforting and palatable, no pun intended?’ So, I thought, I’ll discuss grief with my guest’s favorite comfort food.”
“I also wanted to make sure that a lot of my guests would be comedians,” she said. “I wanted to bring in a different type of angle to the topic. I wanted to talk about grief in a more lighthearted way… Humor can be healing. It allows us to really talk about the topic, but also learn how to get through it.”
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