Kaley Cuoco and Johnny Galecki‘s respective characters of Penny and Leonard fell successful love, got married, and had a kid during the 12-seasons The Big Bang Theory aired connected CBS. And arsenic galore fans know, beingness imitated art, and Kaley, 36, and Johnny, 47, besides fell successful love. In excerpts from The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series published by Vanity Fair connected Oct. 3, the actors opened up astir their evident transportation and what led them to yet day betwixt 2008 and 2010.
“I had a precise large crush connected Johnny aboriginal on. I was truthful not adjacent hiding it,” Kaley recalled successful the book. “We were some dating radical astatine the time, but I lone had eyes for Johnny. Then, erstwhile I recovered retired helium had eyes for maine too, I was like, Uh‑oh, this is going to beryllium trouble.” Later on, Kaley said the full archetypal play of the amusement consisted of their chemistry increasing connected and disconnected the screen. “All the scenes up until we really got unneurotic successful existent life, it was evident determination was ever thing there,” the histrion confirmed. “There was chemistry and we were crushing connected each other.”

It was that “obvious” chemistry that encouraged some Kaley and Johnny to yet bash thing astir their connection. The brace admitted they could nary longer disregard their feelings aft they filmed a dream-sequence country for the Season 1 occurrence “The Nerdvana Annihilation”, which featured Leonard redeeming Penny from an elevator shaft and the brace lovingly embracing each other. “We had to beryllium successful each other’s arms — and for rather immoderate time, due to the fact that it was a spot of a stunt that we were doing,” Johnny recalled successful the excerpt. “Kaley didn’t look freaked retired astatine all. In fact, she looked highly blessed successful those arms.”
Kaley noted she believes they “fell a small successful emotion successful that elevator shaft,” and Johnny agreed that they “felt something.” He added, “I deliberation that was a monolithic turning constituent [in our relationship]. At that point, some she and I knew that thing communal was felt, and that it was going to beryllium much of a distraction from the enactment to effort and proceed to disregard it than to really admit it and surrender to it.”

A fewer months aft Kaley had breached up with her fellow astatine the time, Johnny made the determination and invited her to the Smoke House successful Burbank, Calif. Kaley admitted she got determination arsenic rapidly arsenic possible, and the remainder is history. The 2 shared a buss that evening, and Kaley invited him backmost to her house. “After that buss astatine the Smoke House, she said, ‘You gotta travel implicit to my house,’ truthful I did. And past she disappeared. She came backmost having showered, wearing thing but a towel, and sat connected my lap. I was like, ‘Okay, I conjecture we’re dating!'” Johnny fondly remembered. However, Kaley said she remembered being afloat clothed erstwhile she jumped connected his lap. Regardless, they were an point — but worked to support their narration a concealed connected set. Eventually, radical picked up connected their romance, but the mates made definite to ne'er fto it impact the amusement oregon their nonrecreational relationships.
The brace went connected to person a beauteous romance that simply faded distant aft 2 years of emotion and laughter. During their revealing chat, they noted they were conscionable 2 antithetic radical from 2 antithetic worlds who wanted antithetic things retired of life. “We truly adored each other, and we were fortunate due to the fact that arsenic our breakup was happening, determination was nary foul play, determination was thing atrocious astir our narration . . . it conscionable ended,” the Flight Attendant histrion explained. “Yes, determination was immoderate wounded determination for a bit, but it didn’t instrumentality america that agelong to spell backmost to what we were earlier we were dating and beryllium friends. He was beforehand enactment astatine some of my weddings, and we’ve been truthful supportive of each different ever since. We adore each other.”
Following her breakup from the erstwhile Roseanne star, Kaley went connected to marry pro tennis subordinate Ryan Sweeting in 2013 and equestrian Karl Cook in 2018. Both marriages ended successful divorce, and she is presently dating Ozark‘s Tom Pelphrey. Johnny got into a superior narration with Alaina Meyer and welcomed a son, Avery, with her successful 2019. They separated successful 2020.