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Kelly Ripa (0:00)
Hey there, smartless listeners, it's Kelly Ripa. Remember hearing that Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson might be brothers? Or that Rob Lowe briefly had a fling with Demi Moore, Lucky Rob. You can hear it all and much more on my podcast, let's talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa. Every Wednesday, I get to ask the questions that I really want to know and talk to friends like Andy Cohen, Carol Burnett, Seth Meyers, Goldie Hawn, and so many more. It's fun, it's honest, and the best part, it's off camera. And believe me, that's when you get the good stuff. One of my favorite conversations was with the legendary Colman Domingo. We talked about his long standing friendship with Lenny Kravitz, his full circle moment with Oprah, and the unbelievably romantic way Coleman met his now husband. Here's a little taste of that love story. So tell me this story about how you met your husband, because it doesn't.
Colman Domingo (0:51)
Sound real, you know, because it doesn't feel real, to be honest. It's. Tell me first, first of all, we're celebrating our 10 year wedding anniversary in two days and thank you, but we met almost 20 years ago. Next year will be 20 years. We literally met in the stone ages of technology because, and I say that because I was really minding my business. One night I was, I was living. I lived in New York, but I went to Berkeley Rep to do a show. So on Sunday night, I decided to go to go to Walgreens to get a mask. I wanted to get like a Queen Helene mask to, like, get my pores together. So I go in there and walking out of Walgreens was this beautiful, beautiful man with hair down past his shoulders and a lip piercing. And I was like, what? And he had the greenest eyes. I don't know, he just looked like something out of a fairy tale. And we just locked eyes and I was just awestruck by it. So then I came back outside. I didn't even go inside. I came back out. And I'm looking at him, he's looking at me. He's with this girl. And this girl seems to be pissed off about something, but he keeps looking over at me. And I was on the phone with somebody who was just gabbing away. I said, okay, there's not anything. I need to go, I want to talk to this guy. And I finally hang up. By the time I hang up, he and this girl there, she's dragging him down the street down Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley. And he keeps looking back at me. And I raised my hand and said, come back. He doesn't come back. And so I was like. So then I'm really. I was. I'm gonna tell you the full story. I was so kind of dazed about all of this. I go back outside and I think, will he come back? And I thought, well, maybe he felt the same way and I'm a romantic. Maybe he'll meet me back here next Sunday at 8 o' clock if he felt the same way. So I put that away. Three days later, I'm trying to buy a used computer on Craigslist because I got a grant to help out with my writing. You know, I was a struggling artist. I was on Craigslist for like a good hour, and then I was just staring at the home screen and I remember reading all those Craigslist miss connections and I thought, well, what if I wrote one of those?