Rachael Ray opened up about her marriage dynamics with husband John Cusimano in a recent episode of her podcast, I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead.
The second episode of the pod, which aired on Tuesday, October 29, featured actor Billy Crudup as her guest. During the discussion, Ray, 56, revealed that both she and Cusimano, also 56, occasionally need space from each other.
“I am wildly, wildly lucky that I have my husband. But he understands I need my space. He needs his space. John and I largely stay in separate corners,” Ray admitted to Crudup and her listeners.
Rachael Ray and John M. Cusimano are seen during the 2024 South Beach Wine and Food Festival on February 24, 2024 in Miami Beach, Florida. The celebrity cook recently revealed details about her relationship and interesting living arrangement with husband John Cusimano.
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These new details of their relationship emerged just a week after the podcast’s premiere episode on October 22, where Ray revealed that she and Cusimano have “huge screaming matches all the time,” and that she thinks it is “healthy.” In the same episode, she went on to explain that, despite their frequent arguments, they’ve found ways to reconcile. “Eventually I pat him on his a** or he kisses me on the head, and that’s just sort of it. That’s the apology. It’s just sort of understood. ‘I still like your a**.’ ‘I still like your head.’ It’s kind of in that zone,” Ray explained.
The celebrity cook and Cusimano first met at a friend’s birthday in 2001. They married on September 24, 2005, in Montalcino, Tuscany, and throughout their nearly 20-year marriage they have opted not to have any children. The two have stated that they often split their time between their home in Lake Luzerne, New York, and the Italian countryside.
Recently, fans expressed concern for Ray’s health after she posted a video on Instagram on September 2 where she appeared to be slurring her words. Some noted that she did not look her best, with a few adding that she seemed “puffy” in the video. Ray has not made a comment about the video yet.
