Kaley Cuoco was 'so depressed' before “Flight Attendant” premiere amid divorce: 'I literally thought I was gonna die'
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Wesley StenzelFebruary 8, 2026 at 2:19 AM
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Kaley Cuoco attends the 2024 Critics Choice Awards in Santa Monica, Calif.
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Kaley Cuoco said she was "so depressed" amid her divorce proceedings on the day of The Flight Attendant's season 2 premiere.
The actress said that she was "laying on the floor" and "literally thought I was gonna die."
Three weeks after that "lowest point," Cuoco met actor Tom Pelphrey and got engaged to him two years later.
Kaley Cuoco reached a low point in her personal life the same day she had to walk a major red carpet.
The Big Bang Theory star candidly reflected on a bout of depression she faced amid her divorce proceedings in 2022 during a recent interview with Drew Barrymore, which is set to air Monday, Feb. 9, on The Drew Barrymore Show.
"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 remembered. "I literally thought I was gonna die. I really did. I said, 'What am I doing?'"
Cuoco refers to that moment as "the worst morning of my life," which was especially complicated because she thought the premiere of her HBO Max series "was supposed to be the best night of my life" later that day.
"It's so crazy those things sometimes happen at the same time," she said.
Drew Barrymore and Kaley Cuoco on 'The Drew Barrymore Show'
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The actress revealed that she couldn't get back on her feet as she prepared for the premiere.
"My team came over to get me ready, and they literally got me ready on the floor," she said. "I couldn't get up. I'm like, 'I can't go. I can't go anywhere. I blew up my life. My life's over.' I truly thought that. Never getting married again. I'm never gonna have kids. This is it."
In that moment, Cuoco felt that she'd hit rock bottom.
"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,'" she recalled.
The actress said that three weeks after that moment, she met Ozark star Tom Pelphrey, to whom she is now engaged. The couple are also parents to daughter Matilda, who will turn 3 on March 30.
"I had prayed, and I feel like my soul died," she said. I feel like my soul died, 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."
Kaley Cuoco and Tom Pelphrey Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
Cuoco is totally comfortable with initially swearing off marriage and then changing her position.
"Sometimes you just change your mind and that's okay," she said. "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. It takes a long time to figure that out and a lot of forgiveness."
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After ending her three-year marriage to tennis pro Ryan Sweeting, Cuoco began dating equestrian Karl Cook in 2016. They wed in 2018 and announced their separation in 2021. She then confirmed she was dating Pelphrey in May 2022, and later that same year, the couple revealed that they were expecting their first child. Cuoco and Pelphrey and got engaged in August 2024.
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