It seems to be the year of celebrity memoirs dropping bombshells to the public. 2023 kicked off with Prince Henry’s Spare. Closing out the year there is Jada Pinkett Smith’s Worthy and Britney Spears’ The Woman in Me. Let’s not forget John Stamos’ If You Would Have Told Me.
John reveals in his memoir that he caught then-girlfriend Teri Copley asleep in bed with actor Tony Danza. Teri denies she and John were together at the time of this incident.
John and Teri dated during the 1980s. John describes seeing Teri and Tony in bed together as “physically painful” and “worse than anything.” He did not even recognize Tony at first. He just noticed his “ripped abs.”
“I can't explain it, but I would've rather been punched in the nose again or something because the pain is so overwhelming,” he explained. “Looking back, it's like, probably, she wasn't the right girl for me. So seeing him, realizing it was him and stuff, it was hard. I mean, it was awful.”
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John recalled walking into Teri’s guesthouse and discovering her asleep in bed with another man. “At first I was like, ‘I'm going to kick his [expletive]’ I didn't know it was [Tony] yet. I see his abs. I'm like, ‘Maybe not. [expletive] it.’ And I ran,” John wrote. “But I remember running down the driveway with tears streaming down my face and I didn't want anyone to see me."
Teri remembers things differently. She maintains she and John were already broken up. "I wondered, 'What was John doing there?' because we had broken up," she recalled. "He just looked at me and shook his head, and walked away."
John did not realize it was Tony until he saw a poster in his car that Teri had signed for him. “I jump in the El Co, start the car, and Elton John is still singing, and that’s when it hits me,” John recalled. “I mouth the words to his most famous lyrics and realize the name of my rival: ‘Hold me closer, Tony Danza… .’”
John admits that even though it took him a while to get over it, he still considers Teri to be a good person. “I mean, it wasn't right to cheat on me, but I was too immature; I wasn't a man,” he explained. “I didn't become a man for a long time and I think she was … I don't know. I was broken.”
John included this part of his life in the memoir because he wanted to be open and honest about all of his struggles. “I really wanted to find relatable things that happened in my life,” he explained. “Because I think everybody thinks, like, ‘Oh, this guy's got no problems. I'm sure he's never been cheated on.’ ”
John also admits Tony helped launch his career. Full House aired right after Who's the Boss on Tuesday nights, exposing it to a wider audience. “Back then you go, ‘Life isn't fair.’ And then, ‘Oh, wait a minute. It got evened out,’ ” John mused. “I honestly believe if we didn't follow his show in the summer, that would've been one and done for that show, Full House.”
John believes everything worked out OK in the end. “Sometimes the hardest thing to do is go with the flow,” he explained. “Because if you're a good person, and you treat people well and you do good things in the world, most of the time, you're going to be okay.”
