From Variety · Marc Malkin · · 1m 20s
Kaley Cuoco cries for her TV dad
At a gala for aortic health, Kaley Cuoco broke down remembering John Ritter, the sitcom dad she lost on set at 16.
In brief
At a gala for aortic health, Kaley Cuoco broke down remembering John Ritter, the sitcom dad she lost on set at 16. John Ritter died of a thoracic aortic dissection at 54, and the foundation his family built keeps raising money for the heart condition that took him. Originally reported by Variety.
A night for her TV dad
Kaley Cuoco turned up Saturday in Los Angeles to honor John Ritter, who played her father on the ABC sitcom "8 Simple Rules."
He died on set
In 2003, while the show was in production, Ritter suffered a fatal thoracic aortic dissection, a tear in the heart's main artery.
Still can't tell it dry
Twenty-three years on, Cuoco choked up the moment she started speaking about him.
“I always cry when I talk about him”
Evening From the Heart
She spoke at the annual gala for the John Ritter Foundation for Aortic Health, the group his family started after his death.
Sixteen and overdressed
Cuoco remembered meeting Ritter at the first table read. She was 16, cast as the hot girl, and picked the flashiest thing in her closet.
“It had these little spaghetti straps, just ridiculous.”
A joke about now
Pregnant with her second child with fiance Tom Pelphrey, she pointed at her belly and called herself the hot girl "before I was knocked up."
The headline
John Ritter died of a thoracic aortic dissection at 54, and the foundation his family built keeps raising money for the heart condition that took him.
