Jerry O’Connell Broke Up With Giuliana Rancic Over Intercom, Apologizes

Jerry O’Connell didn’t want Giuliana Rancic to stand by him.

In fact, the Stand By Me actor ended his relationship with the former E! News anchor in the early aughts after she showed up unannounced at his home.

“I broke up with her through an intercom because Giuliana Rancic came to my condominium,” O’Connell said on the July 19 episode of Kelly Ripa’s SiriusXM show Let’s Talk Off Camera. “I was not expecting Giuliana Rancic to come to said condominium.”

The 52-year-old added, “I said, ‘I did not know you were coming. You can’t come up here. You can’t come here unannounced.’”

Besides being surprised by her appearance, the former host of The Talk admitted that he didn’t want Rancic coming up to his condo because he had another girl over.

As he put it, “I didn’t want any confrontation.”

Since the end of their tryst, Rancic released her 2016 memoir Going Off Script, in which she compared O’Connell’s handling of their breakup to “the customer service representative who tells you your bags missed the flight.”