John Stamos ‘hated’ Rebecca Romijn after divorce: The Devil

John Stamos did not handle his divorce from Rebecca Romijn well. In his new memoir, If You Would Have Told Me, the “Fuller House” actor looks back on their relationship and split.

“My first marriage was shattering to me. I was shattered for way too long, too,” Stamos, 60, told People. “I mean, a year, okay, good. But it went on [for] years and years.”

“In my mind back then, she was the Devil, and I just hated her,” he continued. “I couldn’t believe how much I hated her, and it ruined my life. Looking back, and I talk about it [in the book], because it’s one of the steps in AA where the fourth step is you lay out all your grievances, everything that people did to you. I go like, ‘None.’”

Stamos said it was “really difficult” to write the chapters about his failed marriage to the model, but admitted he had “some part” in their breakup. They married in 1998 and announced their separation in 2004.

“You start thinking, it’s like, ‘Oh, she wasn’t the Devil. Maybe I was as much to blame as her,’” he told the outlet. “It was very public, and that was very painful. I didn’t write much about that, but it’s hard.”

The “Full House” alum added that he felt Romijn “was trying to make it work because she cared” at the time and he “started to kind of drink a lot” in the fallout.

“It was very much the opinion that she dumped me because her career was going great and mine wasn’t, and that’s humiliating,” he said. “I don’t blame her for it. It was just the perception that people took, and maybe they weren’t wrong. She was doing great at that time and I wasn’t.”

“But without that, I never would’ve known what a real love is, and I would’ve never straightened up to get someone like Caitlin in my life.”

Stamos — who hasn’t seen the “Ugly Betty” alum since they sat down with divorce lawyers — went on to marry Caitlin McHugh Stamos in 2018. The pair are parents of son Billy, 5.

Romijn, for her part, married actor Jerry O’Connell in 2007 and they share 13-year-old twin daughters.