John Stamos Claims He Caught His Girlfriend Teri Copley In Bed With Tony Danza

In John Stamos’ upcoming memoir, If You Could Have Told Me, he claims that back in the 1980s, he walked in on his then-girlfriend Teri Copley in bed with Tony Danza.

“I can’t explain it, but I would’ve rather been punched in the nose again or something because the pain is so overwhelming,” he told People. “Looking back, it’s like, probably, she wasn’t the right girl for me. So seeing him, realizing it was him and stuff, it was hard. I mean, it was awful.”

Stamos, 60, described when he found Copley asleep next to Danza, whom he didn’t immediately recognize.

At the sight of her in bed with another man, Stamos said he stumbled backward out of the room. 

He recalled, “At first I was like, ‘I’m going to kick his…’ I didn’t know it was [Danza] yet. I see his abs. I’m like, ‘Maybe not. F— it.’ And I ran… But I remember running down the driveway with tears streaming down my face and I didn’t want anyone to see me.”

The Full House actor went on to describe Copley as “just a nice person.”

“I mean, it wasn’t right to cheat on me, but I was too immature,” he said. “I wasn’t a man… didn’t become a man for a long time and I think she was… I don’t know. I was broken.”

In his memoir, Stamos wrote that he was only able to identify Danza after he spotted a poster of Copley she had signed “My Dear Tony” in the front seat of an unfamiliar car outside her house.

Copley, 62, maintains that she and Stamos were not together at the time of the incident.

Stamos said that he decided to include the alleged incident in his book because “I really wanted to find relatable things that happened in my life. I think everybody thinks, like, ‘Oh, this guy’s got no problems. I’m sure he’s never been cheated on.’ When people are cheated on, they make a list. It’s like, ‘Oh, she left me because I don’t have enough money,’ or ‘I’m not good-looking,’ or this and that. And then you look at me and I go, ‘Well, he had all those things. People are s—-. And it’s life.”

Stamos noted he saw a sense of balance and fairness in the outcome, as a significant portion of  Full House‘s early success can be attributed to Danza’s popular show, Who’s the Boss?, which helped establish family comedies in primetime.