Kaley Cuoco was ready to ‘strangle’ woman who tried to mom-shame her

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Kaley Cuoco had to channel George Costanza and silently tell herself “Serenity Now” after a fellow passenger tried to mom-shame her on a recent flight.

The Big Bang Theory actress, 38, recounted how she tried desperately to get nine-month-old daughter Matilda to fall asleep as she took her on her first flight.

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“I was so terrified,” Cuoco told late-night host Jimmy Kimmel this week. “So I thought, ‘What do we do? We have to bring her sound machine on the plane.’ It’s the only thing she can go to sleep to.”

The trick eventually worked, but Matilda was crying for a period of time before she eventually fell asleep so she decided to leave the sound machine running.

“It was hard. She finally falls asleep and she’s on Tom (Pelphrey, Matilda’s father) and the sound machine is on and we were finally like [sighs].”

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But the device proved to be a bone of contention with one of Cuoco’s fellow passengers.

“The steward comes over and he’s like, ‘Hey, one of our passengers would love it if you would turn the sound machine off.’ And I’m sitting there, and I’m like, ‘Oh my god,’ ” Cuoco told Kimmel. “And I can feel Tom be like, ‘Hey, ask the passenger if she wants to hold our screaming child when we turn it off.’ And I mean, the ice went into his veins.”

Cuoco went on to add that she was shocked that someone asked her to turn the mechanism off.

“I couldn’t believe, by the way, she asked us to turn it off!” she said.

“That is so crazy,” Kimmel agreed. “And what a terrible job to have to be a flight attendant and have to deliver a message of that type.”

The Flight Attendant star said when the plane landed, she realized it was the woman in front of her who complained.

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“The lady turns around and goes, ‘Oh, so your daughter does know how to smile,’” Cuoco said.

The three-time Emmy nominee jokingly told Kimmel she had to channel her very best acting skills to not lose her temper with the passenger.

“It was in that moment where I understood why women end up on Dateline. I could have strangled (her). … I could’ve thrown that woman off the plane,” Cuoco said.

“You see all these things on social media where people are really, truly getting mad at these babies. Like, justice for babies! This is ridiculous … leave them alone!” she added.

Being a mom is an experience, Cuoco, who divorced Karl Cook in 2022 after three years of marriage, said she didn’t think about until she met Pelphrey.

“As a young girl, I dreamed of it,” she told Emmy Magazine last year. “Then when we met, it was instantaneous — ‘Oh my God, I want to have a kid with you.’

“We both wanted it so badly, which was not what I thought my life would be. I love my career and wanted to just keep living my life. But Tom came along, and something changed. We’re not 20, so we felt like we probably couldn’t wait too long. Then we got so blessed — it happened right away.”

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