Mary Steenburgen Reveals the Cringe Phrase Ted Danson Says After Sex

Mary Steenburgen is getting candid about her first impression of her husband Ted Danson, even revealing the cringe phrase he sometimes says after sex.

“I admired him so much as an actor, but I didn’t personally know him,” Steenburgen told People on the red carpet at the Golden Gala on Friday. “And I had this stupid idea that he was, like, maybe kind of a slick guy.”

How “wrong” she was, said Steenburgen. “Slick guys don’t say, ‘Gosh-a-rooni,’ after making love. I’d like to apologize to my granddaughters.”

Postcoital talk aside, Steenburgen, who married and had two children, Lilly and Charlie, with actor Malcolm McDowell before tying the knot with Danson in 1995, also praised the Cheers star for his parenting abilities.

“I also fell in love with the sort of father that he is and with his beloved daughters… Ted loves them with all his heart and yet had space in there to love my Lilly and Charlie so perfectly as well. It’s pretty thrilling to go through life with Ted Danson,” Steenburgen said.

Danson fathered two daughters, Kate and Alexis, with ex-wife Casey Coates before making a blended family with Steenburgen.

In a November interview with People, Danson admitted that their decades-long relationship wouldn’t have worked if they had met earlier.

“I was not really fully emotionally baked until shortly before I met Mary,” Danson said.

He added that he had been working on being “a more emotionally mature, honest human being” a year before he and Steenburgen met at an audition in 1983.