Monsters Actress Leslie Grossman Is Engaged: ‘I’m So Happy’

Monsters: The Erik and Lyle Menéndez actress and frequent American Horror Story star Leslie Grossman is engaged!

Grossman shared the information for the primary time publicly Tuesday, October 22, on her former What I Like About You costar Jennie Garth’s podcast, “I Choose Me With Jennie Garth.”

“I’m engaged, which is so enjoyable!” the Common alum, 52, shared. “That’s a wild factor that I didn’t see coming. Not that I didn’t see it coming with this individual. I simply didn’t see any of this subsequent chapter of my life coming.”

Grossman was beforehand married to Jon Bronson for 20 years. The previous couple, who share adopted daughter Goldie, 17, divorced in 2020.

“I’m so completely satisfied for you,” Garth, additionally 52, congratulated her former costar and pal.

Grossman responded, “I’m so completely satisfied for me too! He’s an exquisite individual. It’s so humorous that is the primary time I’m speaking about it publicly,” although she didn’t determine her new fiancé.

“It’s a very fortunate and fantastic subsequent chapter. I imply, look, my entire life acquired reorganized round my fiftieth birthday and every thing acquired thrown up into the air, and it kind of fell to the bottom,” the frequent Ryan Murphy collaborator stated of varied life adjustments that affected her earlier than she turned 50, together with her separation from Bronson.

“I used to be very intentional about kind of deciding what I used to be going to choose up and what doesn’t include me anymore,” she continued.

Grossman stated that she was “48, 49-ish” when she and Bronson broke up, however that was not the one factor that led to her embracing a brand new chapter when she turned 50.

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Netflix’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menéndez Story labored exhausting to ensure the forged resembled their real-life counterparts. The ten-episode restricted sequence, which shall be launched on September 19, follows Lyle and Erik Menéndez, who have been convicted for the 1989 homicide of their mother and father. The siblings confessed to the crime and claimed they killed […]

“I used to be married for nearly 21 years and that ended. It was additionally the primary month of the pandemic shutdown. The timing of that was as unhealthy because it may have been,” she stated. “After which fairly shortly after that [my] sister-in-law died. This was my brother’s spouse [who] died. She was my sister. You realize, you could have a selection when all of these things occurs. I made a decision I’ve to be courageous. I felt like I had a really exhausting reset.”

Grossman just lately appeared as Judalon Smyth in Netflix’s hit drama about Erik and Lyle Menéndez. She additionally performed Rabbi Shira in an episode of the streaming service’s hit new comedy, No one Desires This, which stars Kristen Bell and Adam Brody.