Kaley Cuoco claimed sex scenes with her ex on Big Bang Theory were added ‘to mess with her’

The show’s creator has denied it

The Big Bang Theory star Kaley Cuoco once claimed that she wondered whether she was given more sex scenes to do after she broke up with her co-star.

In the sitcom, one of the main relationship dramas is whether her character Penny will end up with Leonard (Johnny Galecki) or not, and they do end up getting over their ‘will they, won’t they’ to forge a proper relationship.

Just as the characters got together on the show, so too did their actors in real life, but the relationship wasn’t to last and the pair parted ways amicably and continued performing together.

Speaking to The Armchair Expert podcast in 2020, Cuoco said they ‘just fell mad for each other for two years’ and then broke up, but afterwards she thought that the sex scenes between their characters increased.

She said: “When we broke up, obviously it was a little sensitive for a minute, but I remember those weeks that Chuck had written these episodes where all of a sudden our characters were like sleeping together every other second.

Kaley Cuoco (right) and Johnny Galecki (left) wondered whether scenes were added to the show after their breakup. (Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images)

“Johnny and I talk about it and I think he did that on purpose — just to f**k with us.

“If I was with him, I would ask him, because that came out of nowhere. All of a sudden these characters were all up on each other.”

This is a claim that The Big Bang Theory creator Chuck Lorre addressed and denied in the book The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive, Inside Story.

He said: “No. Not at all. Making a good show has no room for f**king with anybody.

“There’s no, ‘Let’s mess with Kaley and Johnny’. The goal was to make a great show and make every minute of every episode count. And that was the only goal.

The Big Bang Theory creator Chuck Lorre addressed the suspicion and said there was ‘no room for f**king with anybody’ while making a TV show. (Evans Vestal Ward/WBTV via Getty Images)

“We don’t have that kind of freedom to risk a TV series that you put your heart and soul into to mess with somebody’s head. No.

“I think that’s charming that they think we had the mental capacity to mess with them. Penny and Leonard having difficulty sustaining a relationship was one of the reasons to keep watching – to see if they could make it.

“You were rooting for them to find happiness.”

After the book was released, Galecki said it was ‘pretty egotistical of us to think that’ scenes had been put in to mess with them.

He said: “We were reading into things a little too much. I’m going to sleep a little easier tonight.”