Jeanie Buss and Jay Mohr. Kevin Winter/Getty Images
Los Angeles Lakers owner Jeanie Buss and comedian Jay Mohr have been married for over a year and have been a couple for nearly eight years, but they do not live together. Not exactly, at least.
Buss, 63, talked about the unique arrangement she has with Mohr, 54, in a resurfaced clip from “In Depth with Graham Bensinger,” recorded in 2023.
During the interview, she explains that her building has three units in it. She lives on the top floor and Mohr lives on the bottom with another family living in between them.
“Everybody is going to want to live exactly the same way,” Buss said. “We live together, we’re at the same address, except I’m unit 3 and he’s unit 1. We don’t really want to change anything because I like my space and have my schedule and he likes his space and has his schedule.”
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Buss, however, made it clear that the couple still spends plenty of time together.
“I can take the elevator down in my slippers and hang out a little bit and go back up,” she said. “I would recommend it to any couple that feels the same way.”
Jeanie Buss and Jay Mohr. Paul Archuleta/Getty Images
Mohr backed her up, saying, “We see each other every morning, every afternoon and every night.”
The Jerry Maguire actor added that, as a guy, he didn’t feel the need to subject his wife to the “gross” things that men do.
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“When you’re home alone in your bed, guys are gross,” he said. “We just make sounds, we sweat, the sheets get all wrinkly and weird. Just let her sleep like a princess or a Barbie still in the box. She doesn’t need to be subjected to me in my wrestling sweatpants just belching.”
Though Buss and Mohr began dating in 2017, they didn’t go public with their relationship until 2021. That same year, Mohr checked himself into rehab to confront his substance abuse. Buss looked back at that time in the interview, opening up about his erratic behavior and lying.
She explained that Mohr prevented her from talking to his agent and assistant, keeping everyone in his life at a distance so they “could not compare notes.”
“Finally, we all realized we were seeing the same thing and all his job opportunities were drying up because he was burning bridges wherever he was going,” she said.
Ultimately, it was Mohr’s son, Jackson, whom he shares with ex-wife Nicole Chamberlain, that kept them together through Jay’s struggles.
“I tried to date other people and just end the relationship but I was never going to end the relationship with his son,” Buss said. “I had grown attached to him and I worried about him.”
