O’Connell, who got his start as a child star in 1986’s Stand by Me, said that he and Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Sarah Michelle Gellar went out exactly once. “Sarah Michelle dumped my a--.” “Sarah Michelle took one look at me and was like, ‘I got to get away from this drunk,’” he joked on Sunday. Sarah Michelle Gellar and Jerry O'Connell at the 1998 Emmy Awards in Los Angeles. Romijn and O'Connell married in 2007.