“Wednesday” actors Fred Armisen and Riki Lindhome confirmed Wednesday that they tied the knot two years ago.
The couple, friends for more than 15 years, are also parents to 2-year-old son Keaton, whom Lindhome welcomed about two weeks after beginning her romantic relationship with the “Portlandia” star via surrogate.
“The traditional way to get a man is not to have a baby by yourself and move to Romania,” the “Knives Out” actor told People.
Lindhome, who said she used sperm and an egg obtained from donors, thought she might just be “a single mom with a boyfriend” when Keaton was born in March 2022. Armisen was filming overseas and didn’t meet the baby until he was about 3 weeks old. Lindhome detailed her initial apprehension about jumping into a relationship.
“I said, ‘All I want is the truth. If deep down you feel like that’s not for you, it doesn’t make you an idiot. I’m not mad at you,’” Lindhome said she told him. “I said, ‘I still think you’re the best. I just want you to really feel what you feel. And then be honest about it because it’s such a life-changing thing.’ And he said, ‘Okay, okay. ’”
“I said, ‘So tell me what your heart tells you,’ and he said, ‘Yeah. ’ Basically, it was an instant family,” she said.
On “Wednesday,” Lindhome played town therapist Dr. Valerie Kinbott in the show’s first season; Armisen guest-stars in the 2022 Netflix series as the Addams Family’s Uncle Fester. Lindhome and the “Saturday Night Live” alum worked together on the set in Romania for two months in 2020 and she described early feelings that “developed naturally over time.” Two weeks before her son was born, she told Armisen she loved him, she said.
“We were friends for so long that it all happened so quickly. We had a dinner and then we were like, ‘Oh yeah, let’s see how this ends. ’ It was surprising. I would say it was more of a shock to him. He didn’t see it coming at all,” she added.
An Armisen spokesman did not immediately respond to The Times' request for comment Thursday.
The couple tied the knot in what Lindhome called a “three-minute” courthouse ceremony on June 1, 2022, on a random Wednesday afternoon to honor the moment they fell in love on set, People reported. Lindhome said she wore a white summer dress she purchased at Macy’s in the Glendale Galleria and Armisen wore a suit. Their rings didn’t arrive in time, so they had to wear temporary wedding bands for the ceremony, an intimate event that included their son and a friend who served as a witness.
It wasn’t a secret, but the couple “didn’t tell anyone,” Lindhome said. After the ceremony, they had ice cream. (A year later, they celebrated their anniversary with a trip to Iceland.)
“I didn’t even tell my mom,” Lindhome said of the nuptials. “I never wanted to get married. I’m not a wedding person. It’s not for me. But this was just for us. We also didn’t want to hurt people’s feelings by not having a wedding, and we didn’t want to be pressured into it. We just wanted to say, ‘Guess what we did a few months ago?’”
The “Duncanville” star will detail her journey to motherhood in her new musical, “Dead Inside,” at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland next month.
This appears to be Lindhome's first marriage. Armisen was previously married to singer Sally Timms (from 1998 to 2004) and “Mad Men” star Elisabeth Moss (from 2009 to 2011).
Their bitter split made headlines for years and Armisen has said the failed union with Moss was his fault, describing himself on Howard Stern's show in 2013 as “a terrible husband.”
He later dated “Russian Doll” star Natasha Lyonne (2014 to 2022), who confirmed in 2022 that she and Armisen split after living together in Los Angeles during the COVID-19 pandemic and discovering their priorities and preferences did not match.
