{"id":253050,"date":"2026-07-22T13:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/terrible-boyfriend-jerry-oconnell-apologises-to-giuliana-rancic\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T13:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T13:00:14","slug":"terrible-boyfriend-jerry-oconnell-apologises-to-giuliana-rancic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/terrible-boyfriend-jerry-oconnell-apologises-to-giuliana-rancic\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Terrible boyfriend&#8217; Jerry O&#8217;Connell apologises to Giuliana Rancic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2026-07-22\" datetime=\"1784725214\" pubdate=\"\">22 July 2026<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/jerry-oconnell\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,jerry-oconnell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerry O&#8217;Connell<\/a> has apologised to ex-girlfriend Giuliana Rancic for being a \u201cterrible boyfriend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Jerry O&#8217;Connell was a &#8216;terrible&#8217; boyfriend<\/p>\n<p>The 52-year-old actor dated the entertainment reporter from 2003 to 2004 and she memorably revealed in her memoir that he had cheated on her and then ended their relationship over an intercom, and Jerry has admitted he doesn&#8217;t blame her for being critical of his conduct because he was &#8220;the worst&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the Let&#8217;s Talk Off Camera podcast, Jerry noted he and Juliana had &#8220;had a lot of fun together&#8221;, but added: \u201cNow listen, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/giuliana-rancic\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,giuliana-rancic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Giuliana Rancic<\/a>\u2019s defence of this memoir, I was a pretty terrible boyfriend. Hand up, I was not a good boyfriend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me take this moment to apologise to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/giuliana-rancic\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,giuliana-rancic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Giuliana Rancic<\/a>. I\u2019m not kidding about being a terrible boyfriend. I was the worst. I wasn\u2019t the worst boyfriend. I was just a bad boyfriend. I was just not a great boyfriend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                      \t\t\t<!-- Dailymotion player (contact: Kutay.vardar@dailymotion.com) --><\/p>\n<p>Jerry went on to defend his decision not to break up with Guliana face-to-face.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said: \u201cI broke up with her through an intercom because Giuliana Rancic came to my condominium and hit my intercom. I was not expecting Giuliana Rancic\u2026 [She] wanted entry into my condominium. Thank goodness, buzzer, gate, security. I paid a pretty hefty homeowner\u2019s fee for these things.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI said, \u2018I did not know you were coming. You can\u2019t come up here. You can\u2019t come here unannounced.\u2019 Notice no one had a key, so the relationship was not like that, but that was why: I didn\u2019t like someone coming to my condominium without an invite or even a text or even a phone call\u2026 There was no warning. And I didn\u2019t want someone coming in, because I didn\u2019t want any confrontation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nBut he suggested he hadn&#8217;t been quite as blunt and brutal as his former flame suggested in her tome.<\/p>\n<p>\nHost Kelly Ripa read from Giuliana&#8217;s 2016 book Going Off Script, in which she alleged the Stand By Me actor had said: \u201cNope. Sorry, home girl. Things change, but you take care, okay?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nJerry replied: \u201cI don\u2019t recall exact wording, so I can\u2019t deny that I said that. It doesn\u2019t sound like something I would say. I mean, if I were writing a memoir, it made for a good quote.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I\u2019m going to applaud Giuliana for using colourful dialogue and everything.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\nThe Summer&#8217;s Last Resort actor &#8211; who married Rebecca Romijn, the mother of his 17-year-old twin daughters Charlie and Dolly, in 2007 &#8211; admitted he had crossed paths with Giuliana a number of times after their break-up because they went to the same gym, and he used to deliberately try and annoy her.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said: \u201cI would see Giuliana sometimes at Equinox, and I do this really funny thing. Everybody should do this with exes. It\u2019s really funny.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nJerry would &#8220;walk right up&#8221; to his former flame &#8220;nose to nose&#8221; and pretend to flirt with her in an over-the-top voice.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said: \u201cIt would annoy her so much. She would be like, &#8216;Get the f*** away.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cShe would be like, \u2018Go away. Stop it.\u2019 And I would be like \u2018Oh gosh I miss you. Do you have the same number?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/terrible-boyfriend-jerry-oconnell-apologises-giuliana-rancic-1447905.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>22 July 2026 Jerry O&#8217;Connell has apologised to ex-girlfriend Giuliana Rancic for being a \u201cterrible boyfriend.\u201d Jerry O&#8217;Connell was a &#8216;terrible&#8217; boyfriend The 52-year-old actor dated the entertainment reporter from 2003 to 2004 and she memorably revealed in her memoir that he had cheated on her and then ended their relationship over an intercom, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":253051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3767],"class_list":{"0":"post-253050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-jerry-o"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}