{"id":863,"date":"2026-05-05T14:47:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/james-gandolfini-was-no-show-for-sopranos-daughter-jamie-lynn-siglers-wedding-memoir\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T14:47:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:47:58","slug":"james-gandolfini-was-no-show-for-sopranos-daughter-jamie-lynn-siglers-wedding-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/james-gandolfini-was-no-show-for-sopranos-daughter-jamie-lynn-siglers-wedding-memoir\/","title":{"rendered":"James Gandolfini was no-show for &#8216;Sopranos&#8217; daughter Jamie-Lynn Sigler&#8217;s wedding: memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/05\/127060575.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>James Gandolfini skipped his on-screen daughter, Jamie-Lynn Sigler\u2019s, wedding with \u201cno warning\u201d when she married her first husband in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cSopranos\u201d starlet opens up about Gandolfini\u2019s surprising no-show and her disappointment over his absence in her newly released memoir, <a data-aps-asc-tag=\"pagesix-20\" data-aps-asin=\"0063434717\" data-wrapped-template=\"https:\/\/r.pagesixlink.com?btn_ref=org-282f0dd399864b44&amp;btn_url\" href=\"https:\/\/r.pagesixlink.com?btn_ref=org-282f0dd399864b44&amp;btn_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSo-Memoir-Acceptance-Hope%2Fdp%2F0063434717%3Ftag%3Dpagesix-20%26asc_refurl%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fpagesix.com%2F2026%2F05%2F05%2Fcelebrity-news%2Fjames-gandolfini-was-no-show-for-sopranos-daughter-jamie-lynn-siglers-wedding-memoir%2F%26asc_source%3Dweb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">\u201cAnd So It Is\u2026A Memoir of Acceptance and Hope.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cJim didn\u2019t show up. No indication, no warning. I can\u2019t say for certain why. He\u2019s not here, so I can\u2019t ask him,\u201d Sigler, 44, writes of the Tony Soprano actor, who <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2013\/06\/20\/james-gandolfini-dead-at-51\/\">died from a heart attack<\/a> in 2013 at the age of 51.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>James Gandolfini skipped Jamie-Lynn Sigler\u2019s (pictured here on \u201cGood Morning America\u201d on Monday) wedding with \u201cno warning\u201d when she married her first husband in 2003. <span class=\"credit\">ABC via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The \u201cSopranos\u201d star discusses Gandolfini\u2019s no-show in her newly released memoir, \u201cAnd So It Is\u2026A Memoir of Acceptance and Hope\u201d (seen here).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThe Jim I knew wouldn\u2019t have just skipped my wedding without a word or an excuse,\u201d she continues, <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/jamie-lynn-sigler-reveals-james-gandolfini-no-show-1st-wedding-11963057\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">per Entertainment Weekly<\/a>. \u201cPart of me wonders if maybe he didn\u2019t want it for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And while Sigler \u201cexpected some smiles\u201d and congratulations when she returned to the \u201cSopranos\u201d set for her first table read after her wedding, she writes that \u201cinstead, the room was completely silent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was clear: none of them were happy about this for me,\u201d the \u201cGangster Land\u201d actress pens. \u201cIt would take me two long years to understand why.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sigler and her first husband, and then-manager Abraxas \u201cAJ\u201d Discala, tied the knot in July 2003 when she was 22 and he was 32.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cThe Jim I knew wouldn\u2019t have just skipped my wedding without a word or an excuse,\u201d Sigler (pictured here with Gandolfini during a party) writes. <span class=\"credit\">FilmMagic, Inc<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The Tony Soprano actor (seen here in February 2012) died from a heart attack in 2013 at 51. <span class=\"credit\">Ethan Miller<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The pair then separated in September 2005. Sigler <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/24\/celebrity-news\/jamie-lynn-sigler-fantasized-about-death-during-dark-abraxas-aj-discala-marriage\/\">called her and Discala\u2019s two-year marriage \u201creally toxic and complicated\u201d<\/a> during an interview with Us Weekly last month.<\/p>\n<p>The Broadway star ultimately moved on with former MLB infielder Cutter Dykstra. The couple married in 2016 and have since <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2024\/08\/20\/parents\/jamie-lynn-siglers-son-beau-leaves-hospital-after-diagnosis\/\">welcomed two sons together<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in \u201cAnd So It Is,\u201d Sigler celebrates Gandolfini and remembers him as \u201cthe sun around which the rest of [the \u2018Sopranos\u2019 cast] orbited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sigler played the late actor\u2019s on-screen daughter, Meadow Soprano, in the Emmy-winning HBO crime drama for all six seasons from 1999 to 2007.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Sigler starred in \u201cThe Sopranos\u201d as Meadow Soprano (pictured here in 2001) for all six seasons.  <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Sigler writes that Gandolfini (seen here as Tony Soprano) was \u201cthe sun around which the rest of [the \u2018Sopranos\u2019 cast] orbited.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Soprano family also included Edie Falco as Tony\u2019s wife, Carmela Soprano, and Robert Iler as the mob boss\u2019 son, A.J. Soprano.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was larger than life,\u201d Sigler, who has since <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/22\/celebrity-news\/the-sopranos-star-jamie-lynn-sigler-reveals-why-she-fled-hollywood\/\">ditched Hollywood for Texas<\/a>, writes. \u201cHis energy filled the room. Sometimes I think he hated that power. But it was just part of him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She continues, \u201cHe was magnetic \u2013 so big, so beautiful. His presence took up space in the most brilliant way. Jim was humble and present. He cared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Sigler\u2019s 2003 wedding wouldn\u2019t have been the first time Gandolfini was notably absent from an important event.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Besides Gandolfini as Tony and Sigler as Meadow, Edie Falco played Carmela and Robert Iler played A.J. Soprano (all pictured here on the \u201cSopranos\u201d set).   <span class=\"credit\">Anthony Neste\/Globe Photos\/ZUMA Press Wire \/ Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Iler, Falco, Gandolfini and Sigler (seen here together in 2007) starred together for all six seasons of \u201cThe Sopranos\u201d from 1999 to 2007. <span class=\"credit\">Dimitrios Kambouris<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe Sopranos\u201d creator, David Chase, recently <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/03\/30\/entertainment\/sopranos-showrunner-addresses-rumors-james-gandolfini-kept-going-missing-from-set\/\">confirmed that the actor kept \u201cgoing missing\u201d<\/a> from set while filming the hit show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, fortunately, I wasn\u2019t the one who dealt with him going missing,\u201d he told the Guardian in March.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, he asked to meet me a couple of times, once on the banks of the Hudson River when he didn\u2019t want to go to work, and he was so unhappy. This happened three or four times, and we talked and talked and talked, but I was never the one who had to find out where he was.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/05\/celebrity-news\/james-gandolfini-was-no-show-for-sopranos-daughter-jamie-lynn-siglers-wedding-memoir\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Gandolfini skipped his on-screen daughter, Jamie-Lynn Sigler\u2019s, wedding with \u201cno warning\u201d when she married<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/127060575.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}