Jerry O'Connell Refuses to Do This One Thing Some Other Parents Do for Their Kids: 'That's Another Level of Sick'

Jerry O'Connell is not going to do this 1 point for his children.

During his quality connected Kelly Ripa's podcast Let's Talk Off Camera pinch Kelly Ripa, nan character and tv host, 51, explained his stance connected providing kids pinch intoxicant arsenic a parent. O'Connell unopen down nan idea, saying that he's "not 1 of those parents."

"I saw immoderate kids lying connected my floor, and I was like, 'Listen, are those kids okay? Is that fentanyl?' And [his daughters] were like, 'No. They conscionable return edibles.' And I was like, 'Okay. I don't wanna spot it. I don't wanna cognize astir it' because I americium not 1 of those parents," he explained.

"There are parents successful my vicinity who proviso these kids pinch booze, and I americium not that parent, and I don't adhere to that," he continued, earlier attempting to explicate nan parents' reasoning down their decision. "Their point is like, 'Well, they're gonna get nan booze elsewhere, amended that they get it here.' But, I gotta show you, I deliberation these drunk parents conscionable wanna statement pinch these kids and that's different level of sick."

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A twelvemonth aft tying nan knot pinch his woman Rebecca Romijn successful July 2007, nan brace welcomed their copy daughters, Charlie Tamara Tulip and Dolly Rebecca Rose, 16, successful December 2008.

Over nan years, some O'Connell and Romijn person shared glimpses into nan lives of their teens and their experiences successful raising them. O'Connell antecedently opened up to PEOPLE about really he recovered it "interesting being nan begetter of girls" because he's "never had sisters."

In September 2024, nan erstwhile The Talk co-host shared a saccharine photograph on his Instagram as his 16-year-old copy daughters sewage fresh for their homecoming dance. O'Connell posed betwixt his girls, wearing a bluish MTV T-shirt and achromatic pants. On his left, girl Dolly wore a achromatic mini dress and leaned into her dada arsenic they smiled together.

O'Connell's different daughter, Charlie, was connected his right, wearing a striped bluish dress and carrying her phone. "HOCO!" nan proud dada captioned his post.

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In June, Romjin said to PEOPLE astatine nan 84th Annual Peabody Awards successful Beverly Hills, Calif., wherever she revealed that her daughters seem to favour their mom complete their dad.

"Dads are different pinch them," Romijn told PEOPLE. "We person a very different relationship. My girls want maine location each nan time." However, nan prima noted that it's "pretty cool to person Jerry" arsenic a dad, arsenic well.

"They're funny girls," Romijn continued. "And I for illustration being pinch them because they're going to beryllium 16 successful December, which intends I've only sewage 2 and a half years near pinch them until they're retired of nan house. So I want to return arsenic overmuch clip arsenic I tin to tally astir pinch them."