Sci-Fi Icon Jerry O’Connell Admits To Physical Abuse By His Wife And Daughters Over His Politics

By Henry Hards
| Updated 15 seconds ago

Beloved and affable actor Jerry O’Connell appeared on Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast this weekend, where he revealed he was physically assaulted by his wife and two 17-year-old daughters after making a negative comment about Kamala Harris. It happened on the night of Donald Trump’s victory over Harris, while watching election returns with his family.

As O’Connell tells it, he’s a lifelong liberal who voted for Kamala Harris. However, when the returns started coming in, and it became clear Trump would win, he said of Kamala Harris: “There was no planning. This is what they get. There should have been a primary.”

According to Jerry, at this moment, his two 17-year-old daughters and his wife, actress and model Rebecca Romijn, assaulted him. He says, “My wife and daughters, without saying anything, became physical with me. They were filled with rage.”

He went on to paint a picture of a world where he lives in daily terror of saying the wrong thing, suggesting that this wasn’t an isolated incident. Jerry explained, “So if I am being careful with you in how I say things, I live with not one, not two, but three people who, if I made any kind of joke, they’d become very angry with me, you know?”

The interview went on, but Jerry kept making sad references to what seems like a difficult home life. Though he doesn’t use drugs himself, he admitted that his wife has to vape before she’ll be intimate with him. He explained, “The only time my wife finds me appealing, is intimate with me… the only time my wife, what’s the word, touches me, is if my wife takes a hit off that pen.”

Jerry O’Connell is a bona fide geek icon. He starred in the cult-hit kid superhero show My Secret Identity in the late 80s, led the beloved multiverse-hopping series Sliders in the 1990s, and, in recent years, starred as the voice of Commander Ransom on the best of the modern Star Trek shows, Lower Decks.

He has millions of fans who want nothing but the best for him, and if his story is true, it sounds like his life may be in turmoil. No one should suffer abuse of any kind, from their family or anyone else, for the things they say.