Jenna Dewan Steve Kazee.Photo: WWE
The actress, 40, revealed she first connected with hernow-fiancéafter meeting Kazee backstage with her mother after seeing him inOnce, the Broadway musical that earned him his Tony award.
“About nine years ago, I happened to be in New York, so I took my mom to seeOnceon Broadway. We cried our eyes out and fell in love with the show—in particular, the lead actor, Steve Kazee,” Dewan told in thefall 2021 issue ofThe Knot Magazine. “We thought he was just so talented.”
She added, “And funnily enough, my mom had the biggest crush. She couldn’t stop saying, ‘He’s the cutest, so sensitive, so handsome.’ She just kept going on and on.”
Dewan continued, “It was very quick, but it struck us both. It was a moment. My mom and I told him what a great job he did and how it was such an amazing show, and that was it. We both went off into the night. But I never forgot the moment.”
At the time, the actress was married toChanning Tatum— whom shesplit from in 2018and had their divorce finalized in 2019. The former pair share Everly “Evie” Tatum, 8.
While Dewan doesn’t consider meeting Kazee love at first sight, she toldThe Knot, “I think it was a remembrance at first sight, or that’s kinda what I like to call it.”
“We just both thought, ‘Hmm,'” she explained. “You go through life and you know those moments don’t happen every day.”
Years later, the now-engaged couple reunited and found their happily-ever-after.
Jenna Dewan and Steve Kazee.Jenna Dewan/instagram
“Life went on, as it does. Many years later, we were in different situations. I was single again, he was single. He messaged me and said something like, ‘Hey, I don’t know if you remember me, but how are you?'” Dewan recalled. “And I was floored. Of course I remembered him. And that moment in 2012.”
The dancer told the outlet her relationship to the actor “was just kind of fate—it was totally meant to be.”
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The couple began dating in October 2018, a few months after Dewan and Tatum announced their separation in April. One year later, the happy couple revealed they wereexpecting their first child togetherin an interview with PEOPLE.
Son Callum was born 16 months ago.
Kazeepopped the questionin February 2020.
source: people.com
