Fred Armisen and his 'Wednesday' co-star Riki Lindhome quietly married two years ago
Fred Armisen and Riki Lindhome are married.
Lindhome told People in a new interview that she and the former "Saturday Night Live" star privately tied the knot on June 1, 2022, months after she welcomed her first child. Lindhome had a son, Keaton, via surrogacy in March 2022 after struggling with infertility for years.
Lindhome, who had known Armisen for 15 years, said she fell for him while shooting the 2022 Netflix series "Wednesday." In the show, Armisen transformed into Uncle Fester while Lindhome played Wednesday's therapist.
“I could tell I was having feelings, but then I was like, ‘Well, I can’t say anything because I’m about to have a baby,’” said Lindhome, 45, who started dating Armisen weeks before Keaton arrived.
Lindhome recalled questioning whether Armisen, 57, who was filming abroad when Keaton was born, was ready for the "big life-altering" challenge of welcoming a baby into his life.
“And I said, ‘All I want is the truth. If you feel in your gut that’s not for you, it doesn’t make you a jerk. I’m not mad at you,” she recalled telling the comedian.
“And he said, ‘OK, OK,’” Lindhome remembered.
Lindhome, one half of the comedy folk duo Garfunkel and Oates, said her on-set romance with Armisen "unfolded naturally over time."
“I knew that I was starting to have feelings for him, and I wanted to go on a date. That’s what I knew. So I was like, ‘OK, let’s explore,’” she recalled.
Two weeks before her son was born, Lindhome told Armisen she loved him. "We were friends for so long that it just happened fast. We had one dinner and then it was like, ‘Oh, yeah, let’s see where this goes,'" she said.
After Keaton arrived, Lindhome moved into Armisen's house. A simple courthouse wedding came next. Baby Keaton and a friend who acted as a witness were the couple's only guests.
"The wedding was three minutes long and then we got some ice cream,” Lindhome said.
Though their marriage wasn't technically "a secret," the couple also "didn’t really tell people."
"We didn’t announce it or anything. And we thought people would hear about it eventually. And that’s what happened, one friend at a time," Lindhome said.
Over time, Armisen, who was previously married to British musician Sally Timms and actor Elisabeth Moss, has become comfortable with the idea of parenthood, Lindhome said, jokingly calling the trio an “insta-family.”
“I’m sure he had reservations, I’m sure. I had been planning on being a single mom. I wasn’t planning on adding another entity into the mix,” Lindhome said.
“It was something we had to find together and see if it could work," she said. "Every relationship has a different pace. Every single one. Mine was faster because I was in a different circumstance. But we just went at the pace that was natural. It didn’t feel rushed. We just found our rhythm together."
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