Giuliana Rancic revealed her “vague” memory of her ex Jerry O’Connell when she recalled their 2004 breakup.
Entertainment reporter, 51, Posted a carefree Instagram video Drinking cocktails on a boat on Thursday.
“Have you guys heard?” he asked his followers. “Apparently my ex-boyfriend is publicly talking about our breakup after 22 years. Hmm.”
“Imagine that,” the “Fashion Police” alumnus said, taking a sip. “And it looks like his memory is a little hazy.”
Explaining that she was “on vacation,” Rancic said her “emails are going haywire” after O’Connell, 52, appeared on Kelly Ripa’s “Let’s Talk Off Camera” podcast on Monday.
While the journalist, who dated the actor between 2003 and 2004, “could have given him two sentences” and “wished him all the best”, she “has decided to just take a deep dive and make” [the drama] 40 Minute Podcast.
Rancic concluded, “Jerry, you’re invited. We’d love to welcome you.”
O’Connell’s representative did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment.
Rancic, in particular, wrote about the split in her 2015 memoir, “Going Off Script” — and Ripa, 55, read excerpts to O’Connell during their sit-down.
According to Rancic, O’Connell told her through the intercom, “No, sorry, homegirl. Things change, but you care, okay?”
O’Connell couldn’t deny it [he] Said so” and confessed to being a “terrible boyfriend” to the former E! News personality.
“[Another woman] Inside my condominium was… [when] Giuliana Rancic wanted entry to my condominium,’” he recalled. “Thank God, buzzer, gate, security. I paid a hefty fee to the homeowner for these things. Cameras and everything.
“I said, ‘I didn’t know you were coming. You can’t come here unannounced,'” O’Connell continued. “Note that no one had a key, so there was no relationship like that. There was no warning, and I didn’t want anyone to come in because I didn’t want any confrontation.”
The “Jerry Maguire” star, who dated Spice Girls member Geri Halliwell before Rancic eventually married model Rebecca Romijn, did not reveal who was in her condominium at the time.
He neglected to specify whether he and Rancic were exclusive, saying only that their romance “was [already] In trouble” by this point.
O’Connell said he made headlines for being a “fraud” – and was even scolded by a corner store employee.
Since then he and Rancic have been bumping into each other, with O’Connell describing the “funny” and “weird” way he repeatedly approached his former girlfriend at the gym.
The former “Talk” co-host spoke with Rancic about “going up… nose-to-nose” and remembering him in a “weird” voice, which he confirmed was “upsetting.”[ed] A lot of him.”