Danny DeVito Found Out Daughter Lucy Was Pregnant 30 Minutes Before Performing on Broadway: 'I Just Burst into Tears'

Mar. 15, 2025

Danny DeVito (left) and Lucy DeVito in 2023.Photo:Bruce Glikas/WireImage

Bruce Glikas/WireImage

The father-daughter duo have been performing together in the broadway play titledI Need That, and Danny explained, “Every night she would come down a half hour before and we would talk about how we were going to do the play.”

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“One night she sits in her spot and she’s got her cup of tea,” he continued, emphasizing that in 30 minutes they were “going to go on.”

“She says, ‘Dad, I got something to tell you. I’m pregnant,’ " DeVito recalled, adding, “I just burst into tears.”

She added, “He’s getting to the point now where he’s smiling and very alert and, yeah, he’s amazing.”

DeVito also shared that his new grandson will call him “Pop-Pop,” along withhis older grandchild, a girl named Sinclair Lucille DeVito.

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Danny DeVito (left) and Lucy DeVito onstage in 2023.Daniel Zuchnik/Variety/Getty

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In June 2023, theCheersalum revealed on an episode of theWiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfuspodcast that her daughter Grace DeVito had welcomed a daughter of her own.

TheBarbieactress also reflected on what becoming a grandmother meant to her. “Everybody said it’ll change your life when you have a grandchild, and it does,” she explained.

Perlman continued, “There’s a certain love, I mean I felt it when my own children were born, the kind of love I never felt before for anything … But this was a profound kind of feeling, and here it is again. They can do no wrong. Looking at a new human being is so amazing, that people create other people. It’s mind-boggling.”

source: people.com