"Barbie" actress Rhea Perlman recently opened up about her relationship with her ex Danny DeVito, who she still remains married to despite their split more than a decade ago. The actress appeared on the podcast "Wiser Than Me" with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, where she got candid about her current relationship with her ex and how she is handling living alone. "We are still married, and we are still very good friends. And we see each other a lot, and our family is still the most important thing to both of us, I believe. " On their split, Perlman said, "I’m not gonna sugarcoat it, it was very difficult at first. And there were a lot of reasons that we separated, which I’m not going to go into. It took time for us to come to this, somehow, pretty decent understanding and relationship with each other."
The "Cheers" alum also opened up about living alone, saying, "I live alone with my little dog, who is my partner in life now. I don’t like living alone. I like being alone. I like having time to myself. When I was living with Danny and the kids were all in college or wherever … if he went away to do something, I thought, ‘Oh good, I have two weeks where I can do whatever I want, you know. But when it’s every day, it’s not my favorite." The pair shares three grown children together: Lucy, 40, Grace, 38 and Jake, 35. Perlman and DeVito recently became grandparents, and Perlman said she has never felt a love as she has for her seven-week-old granddaughter. "There’s a certain love. I mean, I felt it when my own children were born. It’s a kind of love I had never felt before for anything," she said of her first grandchild.
When asked about the reason why the pair never divorced after splitting up, Perlman told the New York Post in 2018, "We’ve been together a very long time, so there’s a lot of love and history. We agree on enough things, so why ruin that with the yucky things that come with a divorce?"