Ray Romano’s Non-public Wife Turned 60 in 2023 — He Wept in Closet When He Found Out about Her Cancer

“Every Loves Raymond” actor Ray Romano is not just one of the greatest comedians of his generation but a wonderful husband to his wife, Anna Scarpulla, for more than 30 years. Their relationship has been tested repeatedly as they battled illness and financial troubles, but their great love stood strong, and they prove it to the world and their four children daily.

Ray Romano might be known best for his famous sitcom, voicing a mammoth on the “Ice Age” franchise, and several serious roles like in Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman,” but his first job wasn’t as glamorous.

Romano washed trailer trucks as a teenager to earn a little money. The actor explained on “The Ellen Show” that the trucks were so huge and parked so close together, so the washing boys had to fit close in between to wash them with long brushes.

The actor also told Ellen DeGeneres in another interview that he lived with his parents until he was 29, and their home in Queens only had one bathroom. He only moved away from his childhood home when he married Anna Scarpulla.

Their love story started when they worked together as bank tellers, as they revealed on “Double Date with Marlo Thomas & Phil Donahue.” Scarpulla had started that job at 18, while Romano began at the age of 25. They were both young.

The actor would say he wasn’t “the stud guy” at work because he rode his bike to work and was still living with his mother. Scarpulla said the other female bank tellers had been excited to meet the “new guy” at work, but Romano came in with his bike and was always 10 or 15 minutes late. Therefore, nothing happened until the actor quit his job two years later.

That’s when he asked her out, but he tried to go out with some of the other tellers too. Unfortunately, the others said “no.” The host...