Darva Conger and Rick Rockwell Reunite

Feb. 21 -- Darva Conger and Rick Rockwell reunited for the first time since their ill-fated marriage on TV's Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire.

To the TV viewer, the reunion on CNN's Larry King Live might have seemed more like a late-night phone call that ex lovers often make to see how it all went wrong and what went wrong.

Conger, a 35-year-old former ER nurse, marriedRockwell, a 44-year-old comedian and entrepreneur, on the Foxtelevision show in February 2000. Within weeks, she had the unionannulled and said repeatedly in TV interviews that she wanted herprivacy back. Then she took off her clothes for Playboy magazine.

Anger Still Surrounds Couple

Rockwell still appeared angered and hurt by Conger's reasons fortaking the marriage vows with him.

"I don't understand how somebody could go on a show like that…there is nothing ambiguous about the title of the show," hesaid.

Conger said that when she became a Millionaire contestant,she thought the network had already arranged for anothercontestant to marry Rockwell.

"It was a dumb thing todo," Conger said.

Conger, claimed she was speaking to someone else when delivering her soliloquy about wanting to marry Rockwell. She also denied Rockwell's accusations that she lifted parts of the soliloquy from another contestant. "I was talking from my heart to someone else," she said.

Rockwell and King put Conger on the spot many times about her appearances on talk shows and her vilification of Rockwell once the media frenzy began.

Throwing More Heat on Their Fire

Both were still vying for media attention, while lamenting the media frenzy that surrounded them when they returned from their honeymoon last year. Conger was hocking her new Web site, Darvahouse.com, and Rockwell was publicizing his new book, What Was I Thinking?

Both Conger and Rockwell said they have "moved on" but still displayed moments of bitterness.

"I don't blame him [Rockwell] or hold him responsible for what I went through," Conger said. "I put myself in that position and I was less kind than I should have been. I should never have married you and I am so sorry I put myself in that position."