Kaley Cuoco Shares Why She Stopped Sleeping With Fiancé Tom Pelphrey: ‘I Can’t Do This Anymore’
Kaley Cuoco is done sharing her bed with fiancé Tom Pelphrey.
In a Feb. 9 interview on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast, she candidly revealed that she stopped sleeping with her significant other after he told her, “I can’t do this anymore.”
Despite how ominous that might sound for their relationship, the couple is actually doing better than ever.
The Big Bang Theory star, who shares 2-year-old daughter Matilda and several dogs with Pelphrey, opened up about their sleep divorce in a way that feels refreshing and relatable. It all started when the Task star told Cuoco in a couples’ therapy session that he was having trouble sleeping with their different bedtime schedules (not to mention having to share their bed often with several dogs and a toddler).
Kaley Cuoco and Tom Pelphrey.
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“He was like, ‘I can’t do this anymore,’ and I’m like, ‘I understand,’” Cuoco said. “So he started sleeping in the guest room.”
“Tom is a night owl,” she explained. “I go to bed earlier because I’m the one who gets up with Matilda in the morning… He is a night owl. He writes at night. He reads. It’s his quiet time.”
However, it took a minute for Cuoco to come around to the idea. She revealed her complicated feelings after he first told her that he wanted to sleep somewhere else.
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“At first, I’m like, ‘What will people think?’” she said. Which is a valid feeling — but definitely should not be the determining factor in what two people do in their relationship. “And he’s like, ‘I never see you at night,’” Cuoco recalled. “It’s not our sexy time, we don’t cuddle, we don’t see each other at night. He goes, ‘Why do you care?’ And I sat there and I went, ‘God, I don’t care.’ And he goes, ‘Let’s try it.’”
Things turned out better than she expected. “He sleeps great,” Cuoco shared. “No dogs in his way. I’m up with Matilda at 7 a.m. She comes in bed with me. I can turn things on. I don’t have to worry about waking him up. It just works for us.”
She called the arrangement a “game changer,” and honestly, we’re so happy for them. Sometimes it’s best for couples to sleep separately, despite the taboo that might surround that. Because a sleep-deprived partner is not a happy partner!
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In a Nov. 2025 Instagram story, the Vanished star revealed that her toddler often crawls into bed with her in the early mornings. “For people asking, no she doesn’t sleep in our bed, in fact she’s NEVER spent a single night in bed with us…..” Cuoco wrote. “but her favorite thing is to crawl in our bed when she wakes up and watch a movie.”
“It’s been Jack [Skellington, from The Nightmare Before Christmas] for the last month lol 😭” she added.
It’s not hard to imagine how hearing “This Is Halloween” blaring super early in the morning would prompt Pelphrey to sleep in the guest room. Thankfully, their relationship is doing better than ever with this arrangement, and we love their honesty about it!
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