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Connie Britton recalled being introduced to her boyfriend, shaper David E. Windsor, astatine a meal enactment successful 2019 and however he's since stepped into a much "paternal role" for her 12-year-old lad Eyob.
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Connie Britton's romance with David E. Windsor is thing but an American fearfulness story.
The White Lotus actress shared a glimpse into her precise backstage narration with the This Is Us enforcement shaper during a Jan. 30 quality on SiriusXM's Radio Andy. Detailing however she archetypal spotted David astatine a friend's day enactment successful November 2019, Connie described it arsenic a infinitesimal she would "never forget."
"I walked into his enactment and I was like, 'Oh my gosh, I don't cognize a azygous soul," she recalled to big Andy Cohen. "I'm talking to my person and helium looks past maine and helium sees David crossed the country and helium is like, 'There's idiosyncratic present you person to meet.'"
Connie, 55, remembered turning astir to spot David, who instantly piqued her interest. However, the 2 ended up seated astatine abstracted tables for meal and by the clip the repast was over, Connie needed to get backmost location to her lad Eyob, present 12, who she adopted successful 2011. So, erstwhile her matchmaker person encouraged her to enactment for a small longer to beryllium introduced to David, she told him, "'You cognize what, conscionable person him email me.'"
"David knew everybody astatine the enactment and I didn't cognize anybody," Connie added, "so I wasn't going to locomotion up similar a full dork box."
Fortunately, David did email her the adjacent day—a move the Nashville alum thought was "very bold"—and the 2 ended up dating done the pandemic.
Fast guardant to today, Connie said David, who was antecedently joined and has kids of his own, has been a fixture successful her son's life.
"That's immense to person to effort to genuinely capable some of those roles," she said astir being a azygous mom. "I person an astonishing antheral successful my beingness present and helium is decidedly stepping into that much paternal role."
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In summation to This Is Us, David has antecedently worked on The Real O'Neals, Don't Trust the B---- successful Apartment 23 and Galavant.
Back successful January 2019, 9 months earlier gathering David, Connie revealed that Julia Roberts once tried to play matchmaker for her arsenic well.
"She tried to acceptable maine up with somebody," she told Busy Philipps on E!'s Busy Tonight. "It hasn't worked retired yet, but astatine slightest mama tried, you cognize what I'm saying."
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