Julie Bowen Jokes She Wishes Taylor Swift Was Around to Take Her Out amid Her Own Divorce (Exclusive)

Julie Bowen says she needs Taylor Swift had been round throughout her 2018 divorce.

Whereas talking solely with PEOPLE on the Step Up Inspiration Awards — which had been held on the Skirball Heart in Los Angeles on Friday — the Fashionable Household alum, 53, opened up about how good friend and former costar Sofia Vergara is doing amid her divorce, and why she needs Swift, 33, had been “round” throughout her personal.

Revealing that Vergara, 51, is “nice” following her break up from Joe Manganiello in July, and “has an exquisite household that surrounds her and fantastic associates,” the actress jokingly stated that “she does not want Taylor Swift to take her to a recreation. She’s good.”

“I am tremendous completely satisfied that each one these different women are going to video games with T Swifty,” Bowen playfully added. “I want she had been round for me.”

Swift attended final weekend’s Kansas Metropolis Chiefs recreation towards the New York Jets at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey with associates, together with Sophie Turner, who’s at present going by means of a divorce from Joe Jonas.

Bowen and ex-husband Scott Phillips finalized their divorce in September 2018 after 13 years of marriage. Bowen had filed for divorce that February.

The actress and Phillips share three kids collectively: son Oliver, 16, and 14-year-old twins Gustave and John.

In relation to whether or not she is at present courting, Bowen instructed PEOPLE that her sons are her important focus.

“No. No. Nah, I am seeing three boys,” she joked, noting, “And so they’re horrible dates. They by no means pay, they usually at all times simply stiff me.”

“They’re nice. They’re actually nice, however they’re youngsters, so it is largely grunting, and it is largely grunting and promoting cleaning soap, as a result of I am doing JB Skrub, which is my tween and teenage boys skincare line,” she continued.

The actress additionally added that she and her twins have one thing fairly uncommon in frequent. “I share garments with my children on a regular basis,” Bowen stated.

“They’re 14-year-old boys. I really like their garments. Excessive tops and saggy khakis, hell sure,” she detailed, although she admitted Vergara has helped her to embrace attire, stating, “Sofía is any individual that at all times has impressed me and given me the braveness to get in a costume and rise up and say, ‘It’s okay to be a feminine.’ It doesn’t reveal a weak point, and it is okay to be embracing that.”

Again in July, Bowen posted a uncommon picture of her three sons as she revealed that certainly one of her twins wanted to make a journey to the ER throughout a household trip. 

“It’s not a trip with out a journey to the ER for a damaged wrist… Each bones damaged, however John is on the mend and his brothers had been whole champs,” she wrote within the submit’s caption.

Together with a snap of an X-ray, Bowen additionally posted a photograph of her three sons. As John laid in a hospital mattress together with his arm coated in blankets, his two brothers stood close by. The actress later up to date her followers that John was doing nicely.

“Down, however not out! John is again in a ship after yesterday’s run-in with a rogue wave,” she captioned a subsequent Instagram submit made on the identical day.

When she’s not caring for household emergencies, the actress is busy along with her JB Skrub model and stated she’s “studying every single day” relating to the enterprise.

“It is loopy,” Bowen famous of how the model got here to life. “It is simply me and this different mother from college who had been like, ‘Our youngsters odor, it is gross, and we do not like what’s on the market.’ So over COVID, we developed this line, which is insane as a result of I had no thought what I used to be doing. And now every single day, I get spreadsheets and telephone calls, I am like, ‘Oh, I am a enterprise bitch.’ ”

“However I actually do not know what I am doing. I am studying every single day. The excellent news is I imagine within the product lots, as a result of boys get left behind,” she added.”They go within the toilet and … let me inform you. I do their laundry. They don’t seem to be clear, they don’t seem to be caring for all of the elements. So our tagline is pits, nuts, butts — in that order,” Bowen continued.