Tom Arnold says he’s done being single. The 67-year-old actor and comedian told Page Six in a recent interview that he hasn’t been on a date in nine and a half years but is now open to finding love again.
“It would be good to love somebody and be loved,” Arnold said.
Arnold admitted he once dismissed the idea of dating someone his own age. “I used to say, people are like, because I haven’t had a date for nine and a half years, ‘You should date someone your own age,'” he said. “And I’m like, ‘Dude, have you seen people my age? We are freaking disgusting.'”
That view changed after Arnold met women of various ages while touring his comedy show “My Crazy X-Wife.” He said he has “learned there’s a lot of funny, smart, sexy 60-something women” out there.
Arnold has been married four times. His first marriage, to Roseanne Barr, lasted from 1990 to 1994. He later married hair stylist Julie Lynn Champnella from 1995 to 1999, Shelby Roos from 2002 to 2008, and Ashley Groussman from 2009 to 2020. Arnold and Groussman had two children together, Jax, 13, and Quinn, 10, and had been separated for several years before their divorce was finalized.
Arnold’s remarks come after Barr defended him in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, pushing back on a claim by producer Chuck Lorre in his memoir “Sitcom” that “Roseanne” writers were encouraged to credit scripts to Arnold as though he had written them. Arnold had denied those claims to Entertainment Weekly.
“Unbelievably — I don’t think you’ll hear me say this often — but Tom Arnold is telling the truth for once. Talk about the paradigm switch here,” Barr said. “Tom Arnold is defending me. I have to thank him for that. That’s the first time he’s done something right by me in his f—ing life. Thanks, Tom.”
Arnold responded to Barr’s comments on social media, writing, “Hell finally froze over today.”
As for his dating prospects, Arnold said he doesn’t expect women to be drawn to a man “that used to have a lot of money and now has two little kids.” In the meantime, he says he’s content with what he has. “I love my kids so much,” he said. “That’s a lot of love there. And my buddies. But I’ll be okay. You know, I’ve had four marriages.”
