Ali Wentworth says she cried for 45 minutes with husband George Stephanopolus after Ginsburg died

Actress Ali Wentworth said that she and her husband, Good Morning America anchor George Stephanopoulos, both ended up crying in the family car for 45 minutes after he told her the news that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died on Friday, at the age of 87. 

The 55-year-old appeared on Live with Kelly and Ryan on Monday where she revealed the deeply personal moment on air.  

Wentworth explained how the family were out to dinner when they heard the sad news.

Her husband, Stephanopoulos, 59, was immediately summoned to report on air using his cellphone.

‘George runs out, by the way, with the wallet. And me and our two [teenage] girls, Elliott and Harper, we are just sitting at this restaurant for 45 minutes, enraged that he’s just left us. So then I go outside, I see George pacing on the street. I come back in. We keep going ‘Daddy, Daddy.’ bugging him. He’s live on ABC, talking about Ruth Bader Ginsburg,’ Wentworth began admitting she didn’t know at the time whom he was speaking with.  

‘I’m going ‘Hope she’s worth it, whatever woman he’s seeing,’ We finally get in the car. Me and the girls get into the car. We are waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting. He finally comes in. He bursts into tears. Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died. My two daughters. We sat there in the parking lot, crying for 45 minutes.’       

After sharing the emotional comment, peppered with Wentworth’s usual humor she joked: ‘Anyway, I thought George was crying about the brisket, but it really was about Ruth Bader Ginsburg. So that was my Friday night.’ 

She then handed Kelly Ripa an RBG emotional support doll as a joke, but which Ripa, who was almost in tears, took willingly.

Wentworth had previously posted a tribute on her Instagram page using one of Ginsburg’s own quotes.

‘”Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.” – RBG. Rest in Power to a true warrior. Eternally grateful for all that you have done. Vote in her honor on November 3rd,’ she wrote. 

Ginsburg was the second woman to be nominated to the highest court in America.

As an advocate, litigator, professor and judge, she spent much of her career calling for gender equality.

She died of metastatic pancreatic cancer, the Supreme Court announced on Friday.

A household name in the US, she was an unlikely cult figure among many young people, earning the nickname The Notorious RBG, inspired by the rapper Notorious BIG.