John Stamos Agrees He Was ‘Doomed’ and ‘Emasculated’ in Marriage to Rebecca Romijn: ‘She Outgrew Me’

John Stamos gets candid about the effort he was able to put into his career and past marriage.

During an appearance on Sirius XM The Howard Stern Showthe Full house The alum, 60, opened up about his marriage to ex-wife Rebecca Romijn and how his disillusionment with his early career trajectory affected their relationship.

Stamos admitted he stopped putting his career first as he watched the Victoria’s Secret model’s career skyrocket, leaving him feeling “stuck” in their marriage.

“I loved her and I thought she was super talented. So I was happy to do it,” he said of helping Romijn, 50, launch his acting career. “But I forgot about my stuff. She started growing and I just wasn’t paying attention to mine. And it wasn’t her fault.”

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The Scream queens star continued: “I mean, you know, you just get wrapped up in that stuff. I said ‘You know what? I’ve had enough of fame, I’m fine. Let’s put the spotlight on her.’ And I loved watching it. I think she has outgrown me.”

Stamos recalled how he gave everything in his life — including his marriage — “50, 60 percent” of his effort, thinking, “’Well, my 50% is better than you know 99% of the people out there. I don’t have to give everything.’”

“I didn’t work on anything. I didn’t work as hard on anything as I should have,” he added, noting that his “career and my life would have been much better” if he had concentrated his efforts on those areas of his life.

John Stamos.

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When Stern asked if their marriage was “doomed” at that point, Stamos admitted he didn’t believe his marriage to Romijn could have worked, though he admitted he could have tried harder to save it.

Stamos and Romijn became engaged in 1997 and married in September 1998. Stamos filed for divorce in August 2004 and it was finalized the following year.

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In his forthcoming memoir, If you had told menow out, Stamos got candid about the ups and downs of his love story with Romijn, as well as the aftermath of their divorce in the early 2000s.

“My first marriage was breaking me. I was broken for too long,” Stamos recently told PEOPLE. “I mean, a year, okay, fine. But it continued [for] years and years.”

“Then in my mind she was the Devil and I just hated her,” he admitted. – I couldn’t believe how much I hated her and it ruined my life.

He went on to explain that back then, “one of the steps in AA, the fourth step, is to come up with all your grievances, all the things people have done to you. And then I said, ‘Oh, she did this, she did that, blah, blah, she did is blah, blah.’ And then my sponsor says, ‘What part did you play in that?’ And I say, ‘Nothing’.”

The big beast the actor eventually admitted that he had “some role” in the breakdown of his first marriage after being pressed further by his sponsor. “You start thinking, it’s like, ‘Oh, she wasn’t the Devil. Maybe I was just as guilty as she was.'”

Rebecca Romijn.

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From his perspective, Stamos — who hasn’t seen Romijn since they met together with their divorce lawyers — felt that his now-ex-wife was “trying to make it work because she cares” for him before they finally split.

“There was a lot of perception that she left me because her career was going great and mine wasn’t, and that’s humiliating,” he continued. “I don’t blame her for that. It was just a perception that people took, and maybe they weren’t wrong. She had a great time at the time and I didn’t.”

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