‘I heard angels,’ Henson says of fiancé
NEW YORK — Taraji P. Henson says it was literally love at first sight when she met her fiancé.
The Empire star became engaged to her boyfriend, former Super Bowl star Kelvin Hayden, on Mother’s Day.
“I knew he was gonna pop the question because he all but told me himself. I just didn’t know when. That surprised me. He just did it,” Henson said Monday as she attended a event where Fox promotes its new TV lineup to advertisers. The actress said she was introduced to Hayden by her makeup artist three years ago. “She was like, ‘You need to go out. You need to meet somebody. You’re too fly. You’re too amazing.’ I was like, ‘I don’t know.’ She’s like, ‘You’re not gonna meet him at home. You need to go out.’ ”
The makeup artist arranged a party, but the star demanded to see photos, and became enamored with Hayden.
“I was like, ‘Wow, something about his eyes are so gentle.’ And you know how they say you can fall in love at first sight from a picture? That’s exactly what happened,” she recalled. “So when we got to the actual event, I met everybody, I shook all the other guys’ hands and I literally was looking for him and when he walked up to where I was it was like people parted like the Red Sea, a light came on, I heard angels and he reached out to shake my hand and we danced and we talked and we were hanging out every day since.”