Peter Sagal Has These New People In His House

Peter Sagal always sounds chipper and fun on the hit
NPR quiz show Wait Wait Don't Tell Me but that's always been just
one part of his personality. In recent years, Sagal went
through a divorce that resulted in his three daughters cutting
off all contact with him. He spent some time coming to grips with
some depression issues that he had been experiencing and largely
walking away from most of his life

Peter was also up against the portrayal of the dad who loses
everything in movies and television, where said dad somehow
proves to be a hero and wins back the hearts of everyone who left
him. Because in Peter's case, that's not how it worked. His
daughters still don't speak to him.


But now some other people do. He remarried and recently became
the father to a baby boy named Elliott ("two Ls, two Ts, don't
get it wrong, I have," he says). It's been a hard road in recent
years but Peter's learned a lot about walking through it and he
likes where he ended up.


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