Kaley Cuoco is reflecting on her painful divorce from her second husband, Karl Cook.
During an appearance on “The Drew Barrymore Show,” Cuoco, 40, opened up about how she battled depression when the former couple were going through their divorce proceedings in 2022.
“It was the premiere of the second season of ‘Flight Attendant,’ and I woke up that morning, I was so depressed and so sad, I couldn’t even breathe and I was just laying on the floor,” Cuoco explained.
“I literally thought I was gonna die,” she admitted. “I really did. I said, ‘What am I doing?’”
Cuoco recalled that her team had to help her get ready for the event, which took place in April 2022.
“They literally got me ready on the floor. I couldn’t get up,” she shared. “I’m like, ‘I can’t go. I can’t go anywhere.’ I just blew up my life. My life’s over. I truly thought that.”
“I knew, when I was laying on that floor in my house, I thought, ‘Oh my God, this is what they talk about. This is the lowest point I could get,’” Cuoco added.
The “Big Bang Theory” alum called the moment “the worst morning of my life” and noted that the irony was she thought the Season 2 premiere of her HBO Max show “was supposed to be the best night of my life.”
“It’s so crazy those things sometimes happen at the same time,” she told Barrymore, 50.
Cuoco filed for divorce from Cook, 35, in September 2021 after four years of marriage.
The pair, who wed in June 2018, said in a joint statement at the time, “Despite a deep love and respect for one another, we have realized that our current paths have taken us in opposite directions.”
“There is no anger or animosity, quite the contrary,” they added.
The exes finalized their divorce in June 2022.
On “The Drew Barrymore Show,” Cuoco said that three weeks after her low moment, she met her now fiancé, “Ozark” star Tom Pelphrey, with whom she shares daughter Matilda, 2.
“I had prayed, and I feel like my soul died,” Cuoco shared. “And I had also said — I think I did a magazine. It was like, ‘I’m never getting married again.’ I said it, I believed that in the moment, [and then] met Tom.”
“Sometimes you just change your mind and that’s okay,” the Emmy nominee, who got engaged to Pelphrey, 43, in 2024, continued. “You probably didn’t know I was laying on the floor before my premiere ready to die, that’s true. It still chokes me up because I can remember it so clearly, but it made me a whole new person.”
“But it takes a long time,” Cuoco added. “It takes a long time to figure that out and a lot of forgiveness.”
Before Cook, Cuoco was married to former professional tennis player Ryan Sweeting from 2013 to 2016.
