Kelly Rizzo is getting candid on the wisdom shared by her late husband Bob Saget.
The travel blogger revealed that while she was married to the comedian, who passed away at age 65 in 2022, he taught her that communication is key.
“Just being very open about communicating,” Rizzo exclusively told The Post at the Scleroderma Research Foundation’s “Cool Comedy – Hot Cuisine” event Tuesday. “If there is something you’re going through just share it, talk about it and be honest and open about it because keeping things in and letting things fester is the worst thing you could do.”
And she took this piece of advice over into her relationship with Breckin Meyer, 50, who she started dating in February, two years after Saget’s death.
As for what Rizzo wants the “Full House” alum’s legacy to be known for?
The podcaster shared, “I want him to be remembered as an incredible, selfless friend, father, husband, and someone who all he wanted to do was to make people laugh and to make people happy.”
“Especially the last few years of his life,” Rizzo confessed. “Especially during the pandemic, all he wanted to do was like, ‘The world is hurting and I just want to make people laugh.’ And not only was that the biggest burning desire in his soul but he also just loved his family and his friends so endlessly and fearlessly and he would do anything for them.”
She added, “He just had the biggest heart.”
But despite wanting to make the world laugh, Rizzo revealed fans may be surprised to know that Saget had low moments as well.
“A lot of people think that comedians are always laughing,” she explained, “and they’re always happy and they’re always telling jokes all the time and that is not the case. Bob had gone through a lot of loss in his life. A lot of pain, a lot of suffering. A lot of comedians turn to comedy because they had some very dark times in their life.”
One of the losses was Saget’s sister Gay. She died from scleroderma, an autoimmune disease where excess collagen causes tissue to lose its elasticity, in 1994 at age 47.
“So, even though he was a happy person, full of energy and full of laughter, when we were home he was feeling the weight of the world and the pain of the world a lot,” Rizzo said. “People who are married to comedians know they are not laughing all the time.”
Rizzo and Saget met in 2015 through mutual friends and announced their engagement in 2017. They married the following year, and their wedding day is a moment the Comfort Club founder holds near to her heart.
“Our wedding was so special,” recalled Rizzo. “It was so nice because he never thought he would find love again and we had such a beautiful wedding. It was very intimate with so many wonderful, close friends and it was so amazing to see him so happy and to really be like, wow, even at 60 years old he was able to find love again.”
She noted, “So I was happy that I was able to make him happy for when I did.”
As the three-year anniversary of Saget’s death approaches, Rizzo notes her emotions are “different every year.”
“The first year was incredibly hard. Last year was a little bit easier but it’s always hard because then I take myself back to that actual day and it’s just pretty horrible,” she told the Post. “But last year was easier and I’m assuming this year will be little bit easier. But I spend as much time as I can with his daughters and talking about him and we share about him all the time.”
