Kelly Rizzo gushes about how ‘kind’ new boyfriend Breckin Meyer has been as she mourns loss of Bob Saget

Kelly Rizzo has gushed about her ‘supportive’ new boyfriend Breckin Meyer and just how understanding he has been as she continues to mourn the loss of her husband Bob Saget.

Saget passed at age 65 in January 2022 and earlier this year Rizzo debuted her romance with Clueless alum Meyer.

Now Rizzo, 45, has opened up about how Meyer, 50, has supported her during the grieving process. 

‘He’s just been so supportive,’ Rizzo told E! News. ‘Since day one, that’s just been such a big thing with him. He knew what I went through, and he appreciated it and accepted it—and always likes to talk about Bob.’

‘It’s never like, “Oh, I don’t wanna mention Bob. I don’t want Breckin to feel bad about that,”‘ she continued.

Kelly Rizzo has gushed about her ‘supportive’ new boyfriend Breckin Meyer and just how understanding he has been as she continues to grieve the loss of her late husband Bob Saget; Rizzo and Breckin pictured earlier this month

‘He’s just always been so kind about it. It’s been really special. It’s really nice that I’ve been able to move forward with him,’ she continued.

The star described just how appreciative she was to ‘have this really special relationship now’ on top of treasuring ‘all the wonderful parts of Bob in my life.’  

Breckin has also met the three daughters Saget had with his ex-wife Sherri Kramer – Aubrey, 37, Lara, 35, and Jennifer, 31.

‘He’s met Bob’s girls multiple times,’ Rizzo said. ‘We’ve had dinners together. They adore him. He adores them. It’s been really, really nice. They’ve kind of welcomed him.’

Kelly also believes her new boyfriend is the perhaps the only person Saget ‘would be OK’ about her beginning a relationship with after his death.

She humorously remarked, ‘He’s like, “Alright, I’m not thrilled about any of this, but it’s got to be somebody, let it be Breckin.”‘

Rizzo debuted her romance with Breckin earlier this year at a Grammys party.

She was married to Saget for four years up until his death in 2022. They met and 2015 and tied the knot in 2018.

Kelly also believes her new boyfriend is the only person Saget ‘would be OK’ about her beginning a relationship with after his death

Rizzo initially faced backlash from social media users who believed she began a relationship with Meyer too soon after Saget’s death.

But she pushed back against those telling her how to live her life.

‘The vast, vast, vast majority of all of the comments and feedback and support and everything I’ve gotten since Bob passed, 99 percent has been positive and lovely and wonderful,’ she said.

‘But there are some people who just LOVE to talk when it comes to dating after your spouse passes away.’

‘I’ll start by saying, unless you are a widow or a widower, you truly have absolutely no place and no right to comment on this because you do not know what it’s like.’

Saget died in his sleep aged 65 on January 2022 at The Ritz-Carlton Orlando, after accidentally sustaining blunt head trauma; Rizzo and Saget pictured 2018

The travel host said it took her more than a year after The Full House star passed away to feel comfortable with the idea of dating and she didn’t begin seeing other people until 18 months after her husband’s death, but needed support to make the next step.

‘In my situation, it was Bob’s daughters, Bob’s friends,’ she explained. ‘They were saying, “It’s OK.” So I’m like, “OK, it must be OK.”‘

She also opened up about her relationship with Meyer.

‘I was concerned about how I could move on and find someone who appreciates what I went through and understands that Bob is always going to be a part of my life,’ she explained.

Rizzo went public with Meyer at a Grammys party earlier this year

Although she did not mention Meyer by name, she said ‘I’m very fortunate that I was able to find someone who holds space for that and appreciates it and gets it and is strong enough and confident enough to know that Bob’s always going to be a part of my life’.

She said the Happily actor, a divorced dad of two adult daughters, ‘always asks questions about [Saget] and keeps him part of the conversation, and that means so much to me, because I knew I was going to have to find somebody who just got it.’

Saget died in his sleep aged 65 on January 2022 at The Ritz-Carlton Orlando, after accidentally sustaining blunt head trauma.

Saget was found dead in his hotel room bed in Orlando around 4pm EST on January 9, 2022 after performing a stand-up gig in Jacksonville the previous night, sources close to the investigation informed TMZ.

The police saw no sign of drugs or foul play and it was initially suspected that he succumbed to either a stroke or a heart attack.

However, the following month, his family announced that medical examiners had ruled head trauma to be the cause of death.

‘They have concluded that he accidentally hit the back of his head on something, thought nothing of it and went to sleep,’ said the family’s statement.

Florida medical examiner Joshua Stephany, MD confirmed to People magazine that Saget’s death was ‘the result of blunt head trauma.’

Blunt head trauma can cause death via brain bleed, bruising to the brain or asphyxiation while unconscious.