Dating is always hard to do, especially when you’re a woman of a certain age — Gayle King learned the hard way!

In a recent appearance on Harry Connic Jr.’s new daytime show Harry, Gayle revealed she’d gone on a date with a man, only to find out he was married in the middle of icebreaking convo!

“So I’m out to dinner and he’s talking and then he said something about my wife and I said, ‘Wait, wait, wait, your wife? You have a wife?’ He goes, ‘Yeah.’ I said, ‘Does she know you’re here?’ He said, ‘But, we’re separated,’” Gayle told Harry. “I said, ‘Oh, you’re getting a divorce.’ He said, ‘No, we’re separated, we live in the same house, it hasn’t been good for a really long time.’ And I was like, ‘Check please, I know that story.’

Back in 2006, Gayle said on her XM radio show that she was married to a cheater: “I went to marital counseling,” she said back then. “I have been divorced since 1993, so I’m all healed and everything. I have worked it out. I’m not bitter. I’m OK. I’m really OK.”

H/T: Daily Mail