It would ‘be bringing the attention to a situation that I don’t want to feed into’

• The New York City native, 49, spoke on the topic on CBS show The Talk Monday
• The Crossing Jordan star and Romijn, 51, tied the knot in 2007, two years after her split from Stamos, 60, who she was wed to from 1998 to 2005
• Stamos opens up about the marriage in new memoir If You Would Have Told Me 

Jerry O’Connell addressed why he hasn’t publicly commented on inflammatory remarks made about his wife Rebecca Romijn by her ex-husband John Stamos in his new book.

The New York City native, 49, on the CBS show The Talk Monday, said that he’s refrained from getting into detail about Stamos’ comments about Romijn because ‘there are children involved.’

He said: ‘My wife’s ex-husband recently wrote a biography, and it referred to my wife in a negative manner. And a lot of people have asked me about that in press, and it would be easy for me to say, “Screw you, how dare you ask me that?”‘

The actor, who has been seen in films including Jerry Maguire and Stand By Me, said that commenting on the Stamos remarks would ‘be bringing the attention to a situation that I don’t want to feed into.’

The Crossing Jordan star and Berkeley, California-born beauty, 51, tied the knot two years after her split from Stamos, 60, who she was wed to from 1998 to 2005.

O’Connell and Romijn are parents to 14-year-old twin daughters Charlie Tamara Tulip and Dolly Rebecca Rose.

‘There’s children involved, teenage children who read everything on the Internet; so you don’t want to feed that fire,’ O’Connell said, receiving applause from the studio audience.

In an interview with People last month promoting his his new memoir If You Would Have Told Me, Stamos said he was embittered toward Romijn during the end of their marriage.

‘In my mind back then, she was the Devil, and I just hated her,’ Stamos told the publication. ‘I couldn’t believe how much I hated her, and it ruined my life.’

He later added: ‘It was very much the opinion that she dumped me because her career was going great and mine wasn’t, and that’s humiliating. 

‘I don’t blame her for it. It was just the perception that people took, and maybe they weren’t wrong. She was doing great at that time and I wasn’t.’

O’Connell last month said he and his spouse did not get warning from the Full House star before he wrote about them in his new memoir. 

O’Connell made an appearance on Access Hollywood October 23, and told hosts Mario Lopez and Kit Hoover that he and his wife found out about the book after it was already released.

‘We don’t get any warning,’ he said. ‘We find out just like anyone else.’

O’Connell then declined to comment on whether or not his wife was shocked by the comments Stamos, 60, made about their divorce in his book – which was released October 24.

‘It’s not really my place to say,’ he said in response to the question. ‘I would rather my wife talk about that. My wife and I are getting along so well today.’ 

In his new memoir, Stamos spoke candidly about his ‘failed’ first marriage with the former model.

In the People interview, Stamos also revealed that he was ‘shattered’ after they ended their seven-year marriage and said he ‘hated her’ during their divorce.

The General Hospital vet confessed: ‘My first marriage was shattering to me. I was shattered for way too long, too.

‘I mean, a year, okay, good,’ he continued. ‘But it went on [for] years and years.’ 

Stamos said following their split, he relied heavily on alcohol as a coping mechanism and only worked through his resentment towards her after going through the steps in AA. 

Stamos also revealed that he has kept a special gift that his ex-wife had given him while they were together.  

In Stamos’ bombshell memoir, he opens up about his alcoholism and going to rehab. He also talked about finding out his late friend and Full House costar, Bob Saget, had passed away.

He also spoke about being sexually assaulted and revealed he had multiple rhinoplasties early in his career.