Actor Bob Saget’s widow made her first public appearance with her new boyfriend two years after her husband’s death.
Kelly Rizzo, 44, attended the 2024 Grammy Awards with actor Breckin Meyer, 49, per E! News. She spoke with the outlet about how she believes Saget would have approved 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 told the outlet.
She previously spoke to Fox News Digital about how Saget’s kids reacted to the idea of her dating again.
“It’s meant everything,” Rizzo said during an interview in December. “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.”
She continued, “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.”
Rizzo was married to Saget from 2018 until he died in 2022. Saget had three daughters with his first wife, Sherri Kramer, to whom he was married from 1982 until 1997.
Saget died in a hotel room in January 2022 at the age of 65 from blunt head trauma believed to be caused by a fall.
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Rizzo launched the podcast “Comfort Food with Kelly Rizzo” as a means of processing her feelings about losing her husband.
“I had never lost anybody before,” she told Fox News. “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.”
Rizzo said she wanted to keep things from getting too heavy, though.
“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.”