{"id":201758,"date":"2025-10-10T03:55:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T03:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/201758\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T03:55:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T03:55:14","slug":"stephen-colbert-is-going-viral-for-these-extremely-open-comments-about-his-wife-evelyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/201758\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert Is Going Viral For These Extremely Open Comments About His Wife, Evelyn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stephen Colbert<\/a> has met a lot of remarkable people over the years \u2014 actors, politicians, activists, scientists \u2014 but no one matters as much to him as his wife, Evelyn.\"Stephen<\/p>\n

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Stephen met Evelyn, an actor and producer, in 1990 at a theater, and they married in 1993. He recalled<\/a> seeing her and instantly thinking, “[That’s] her. There’s your wife. You’re going to marry her.”\"Stephen<\/p>\n

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After introducing himself, he learned they were actually connected \u2014 both grew up in Charleston, and their families already knew each other. He said, “We took two steps out of line, and we talked for two hours. And I was completely taken.”\"Stephen<\/p>\n

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Still, he was unsure if Evelyn liked him. So when a guy came up and interrupted their conversation, he turned away, thinking that would give her a chance to “get away.”\"Evelyn<\/p>\n

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“But she didn’t. She was still there when I turned around, smiling at me, and now, we’re married,” he said, visibly emotional.<\/p>\n

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Today, Stephen and Evelyn have been married for 32 years and share three adult children: John, Madeleine, and Peter. He’s credited<\/a> Evelyn for helping him through major moments in his career, from producing his show during the coronavirus pandemic to, more recently, helping<\/a> him tell his staff it was canceled.\"Stephen<\/p>\n

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He sang her praises again in an interview<\/a> with John Oliver<\/a>, when John asked him to share the relationship that has “impacted [him] the most.” Without hesitation, Stephen answered, “My wife.”\"Stephen<\/p>\n

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“Without a doubt,” he continued. “There is absolutely, bar none, no one who comes close, and the most harrowing idea would be that I would spend any part of my life without her because that would be a level of loneliness and irreplaceable, irredeemable emotional desolation that I could not possibly contemplate.”\"Stephen<\/p>\n

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“And I understand why old men die, like, a month after their wives go \u2014 because how I will actually die is she will die first and I will not last a year,” he continued as the audience collectively said, “Aww!”People were just as emotional in the comments when the video was shared on TikTok today to mark the couple’s 32nd wedding anniversary. “This is so beautiful \u2764\ufe0f,” one viewer gushed. Another said, “Love Colbert’s love for his wife \ud83d\ude0d.”\"Stephen<\/p>\n

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“I’ll never not love him talking about his lovely wife,” a third person commented, as someone said, “Makes me tear up.”\"Evelyn<\/p>\n

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“came here for comedy but someone is cutting onions,” another person joked. Someone else called Stephen a “class act” and an example of “what men should strive to be.”\"Stephen<\/p>\n

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And of course, people called on other men to take notes.<\/p>\n

One person declared, “You’ll never hear Trump talk like that! About ANYBODY ELSE!” Another added, “In a world of Kanyes be a Colbert.”<\/p>\n

(Seriously, though.) Anyway, Happy Anniversary, Evelyn and Stephen! Let me know your thoughts on the video in the comments.<\/p>\n

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