Kirstie Alley’s Husband: Everything To Know About Her 2 Marriages To Parker Stevenson & Bob Alley

• Kirstie Alley was joined to her precocious schoolhouse sweetheart Bob Alley from 1970-1977.
• Her ex coincidentally shared the aforesaid past sanction arsenic her father.
• Kirstie joined chap histrion Parker Stevenson successful 1983, and they adopted.
• Kirstie’s household announced her decease connected December 5, 2022.

One of the tiny and large screen’s astir beloved stars, Kirstie Alley, died on December 5, and galore are wondering astir her beingness down the camera. Kirstie, who passed astatine the property of 71, had an highly high-profile career, from her breakout relation arsenic seductive Rebecca Howe other Ted Danson connected Cheers, to movie roles including the 1 other John Travolta in Look Who’s Talking.

And portion her clip successful Hollywood has been the worldly icons are made of, she surely had her just stock of ups and downs successful her idiosyncratic life. Here’s everything to cognize astir her 2 astir important romanticist relationships, 1 of which stretched each the mode backmost to precocious school.

Parker Stevenson

Kirstie Alley and Parker Stevenson (Bei/Shutterstock)

Kirstie joined chap histrion Parker Stevenson, present 70, connected December 22, 1983. Though the matrimony ended successful 1997, the mates welcomed two children done adoption, Lillie, 28 and William [who goes by True,] 30, with the Hardy Boys prima aft a reported miscarriage. In 2016, the erstwhile mates became grandparents erstwhile William had his ain son. The matrimony was allegedly fraught with difficulties, and successful 2012 the gorgeous histrion adjacent opened up astir feelings she had for radical extracurricular the marriage.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, portion promoting her publication The Art of Men (I Prefer Mine al Dente), she admitted that her “greatest love” was movie costar John Travolta, though she kept it successful for the involvement of her marriage. “Believe me, it took everything that I had, inside, outside, whatever, to not tally disconnected and wed John — and beryllium with John for the remainder of my life,” she said, per The Huffington Post at the time.

The Drop Dead Gorgeous prima besides admitted to falling successful emotion with the precocious Patrick Swayze, with whom she costarred successful North and South — though she said determination was nary affair. “We did not person an affair,” she said. “But again, I deliberation what I did was worse. Because I deliberation erstwhile you autumn successful emotion with idiosyncratic erstwhile you’re married, you jeopardize your ain matrimony and their marriage. It’s doubly bad.”

Parker erstwhile remembered being opposites with the Jenny Craig spokesperson. “Kirstie and I are nonstop opposites,” helium told People successful 1999. “That’s what made it truthful interesting, [but being opposites] makes for not a bully marriage.” He besides pondered connected the “ugly process” of divorcement and whether they’d beryllium friends again. “Will we beryllium friends someday? I don’t know.”

It was Kirstie’s 2 children from her matrimony to Parker that announced her decease connected Dec 5, 2022. “She was surrounded by her closest household and fought with large strength, leaving america with a certainty of her never-ending joyousness of surviving and immoderate adventures prevarication ahead,” they wrote successful part, successful an authoritative societal media statement. “As iconic arsenic she was connected screen, she was an adjacent much astonishing parent and grandmother.”

Bob Alley

Bob Alley was adjacent to Kirstie successful much ways than one. The erstwhile mates reportedly met and fell successful emotion successful precocious school, and Bob already shared Kristie’s maiden sanction of Alley. Very small is known astir their matrimony beyond that (and photos are virtually intolerable to find), though Kirstie did admit to an matter of sorts, per The Hollywood Reporter successful 2012, identifying the antheral by the archetypal sanction of “Jake.” She besides revealed that it was what ended her archetypal marriage.

“I didn’t person sex, but I deliberation it was worse erstwhile you autumn successful emotion with idiosyncratic else, erstwhile you’re with someone, and you’re plotting and you’re planning,” she said astatine the time. “What I did bash with Jake was I kissed him. And successful my world, successful Kirstie world, that meant I had to get a divorce. … It took a agelong clip [to forgive myself] due to the fact that I was a horrible person, I destroyed my marriage.”