Rosemarie DeWitt Would 'Duck' from Angry Sex and The City Fans After Husband Ron Livingston's Infamous Role as Berger

Rosemarie DeWitt spoke out about the hostility her husband Ron Livingston faced after appearing in the Sex and the city.

In the latest season of the hit HBO comedy, Livingston played Jack Berger, a fellow author who infamously broke up with Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) on a note.

Dewitt, who has been married to Livingston since 2009, joined Drew Barrymore on the Wednesday, Nov. 20, episode of her daytime chat show, The Drew Barrymore Show. Host, a Sex and the city superfan, said she just found out DeWitt and Livingston are married.

Ron Livingston in the movie ‘Sex and the City’.

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Barrymore went on to note that the Post-it is actually more than what many people get in the age of ghosting, breaking down the exact wording of Berger’s controversial note.

” ‘I’m sorry.’ All right. “I can’t.” Now I know where you are. ‘Don’t hate me’. Well, that’s — we’ll figure that out later. They may or may not,” she said. “But it’s so informative and everyone used to poop on it.”

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But according to DeWitt, few are Sex and the city fans were as charitable as Barrymore.

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“Back in the day, when we first started dating, we’d be walking around the West Village and there would be those Sex and the city tour, and Ron would say, ‘Go left! Go left!’ “, she recalled. “And we’d have to take cover in Magnolia Bakery or something because the women would come up to him and scream at him. They’d say things like, ‘You broke up with her on a sticky note!’ You know what I mean? So he was really heated for a long time.”

Ron Livingston and Rosemarie DeWitt in 2006.

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Given Magnolia Bakery’s connection to the original series — the Manhattan bakery became something of a tourist destination after its West Village location was featured in a 2000 episode, and was almost certainly on those tours that DeWitt and Livingston were trying to avoid — perhaps she wasn’t the best a place to hide Sex and the city fans.

However, DeWitt may be back in the fans’ good graces these days. The actress was a guest in the second season of the revue series And just like that… as the ex-wife of Carrie’s longtime boyfriend Aiden Shaw (John Corbett).

Barrymore, who also made a guest appearance And just like thatThe second season as herself, she continued to defend Berger. After watching it again recently Sex and the cityshe said, realizing that “Carrie…she’s tough.”

Sarah Jessica Parker and Ron Livingston in the movie ‘Sex and the City’.

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“Watching it this time, I was like, ‘Ugh, Carrie is a lot. Carri can push you away. Carrie has some issues,’ Barrymore added. “She was really pushing him and … they weren’t doing well or making progress. He wasn’t the worst guy to have to say, ‘I think we’re in bad shape here.'”

“Wasn’t the whole point of that show, like, where me to be kind of empowered, and the guys were like playing the ‘girl’ roles?” DeWitt noted.

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“I think we’ve got to let Berger off the hook, that’s what I’m saying,” Barrymore said.

DeWitt admitted she “missed him.” Sex and the city phenomenon when the show was on the air, but caught Livingston’s episodes while the two were dating. “When Ron and I were dating, I remember being in a hotel room watching the show, going, ‘You’re so cute like Berger! I’m so glad I’m dating you!” she remembered.

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