“I used to be like, ‘This man desires to f–k me.’ Actually past that [point], I used to be completely smitten,” recalled the actress, who has been married to Shepard since 2013.
Kristen Bell is sharing the story in regards to the second her now-husband Dax Shepard received her coronary heart after they met.
On Tuesday’s episode of SiriusXM’s The place Everyone Is aware of Your Identify with Ted Danson & Woody Harrelson (Typically), the actress recalled how she and Shepard went from having “no chemistry” after they first met to an encounter years later that left her “smitten.”
And the second that modified all of it concerned a chunk of chewing gum.
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Bell, 43, mentioned she and Shepard, 49, have been first launched again in 2004 by comedy movie producer Shauna Robertson. (She later produced 2008’s Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which Bell starred in.)
She shared that Shepard was residing with Robertson when he was getting his kitchen renovated, they usually have been shut associates. Bell mentioned she and Shepard have been each invited to Robertson’s party.
“At Shauna’s party in 2004 … she had it at a little bit sushi restaurant on Melrose and there have been like eight or 9 of us there,” Bell recalled, sharing that she did not know anybody on the celebration apart from Jonah Hill.
“All I keep in mind from that night time was that man from Jackass talks so a lot. Woah, he is chatty, and he did not know who I used to be both, and clearly, he was not on Jackass, he was on Punk’d, however I did not know that on the time,” she added, referring to Shepard. “After which we had no chemistry that night time.”
Bell and Shepard didn’t reconnect till years later after they each attended a Detroit Pink Wings hockey sport.
“I had simply gotten out of a relationship. I used to be recent on the scene. I used to be able to mingle,” Bell recalled. “He was with my buddy Michael, one other mutual, and I noticed Michael on the hockey sport … I did not actually know Dax, however I knew Michael, and I used to be like, ‘All proper, we’re again, we’re single. We’ve not been single in years. That is gonna be nice. I am gonna go over and flirt with Michael.'”
“Thank God as a result of it made the remainder of my life … Michael was speaking to another person. Dax got here as much as me, and I used to be like, ‘Oh you have been at Shauna’s dinner,'” she continued. “And he is like, ‘Yeah, that is proper. I keep in mind you, vaguely.’ He was like, ‘You have been the woman that was bragging about one thing you simply bought from Goal.'”
The Frozen star mentioned she was “open to mingling” with Shepard, so that they continued chatting, earlier than Shepard made his transfer.
“I used to be chewing gum and he mentioned, ‘Do you’ve got any extra gum?’ and I mentioned, ‘No, simply this,’ and I form of coyly took it out of my mouth,'” Bell mentioned. “And he grabbed it from me, and he goes, ‘I am going to take it,’ after which he put it in his mouth, and I used to be like, ‘This man desires to f–k me.'”
“Actually past that [point], I used to be completely smitten,” she admitted, earlier than praising her husband. “There’s a lot to Dax Shepard. He is a lot deeper of a effectively than anybody realizes.”
“He is so protecting. He is so loyal. He is such a wordsmith. He is so curious. He is continually researching issues. He is bought new views. He is difficult himself. He is self-critical.”
Bell and Shepard tied the knot in 2013. They share two daughters Lincoln, 11, and Delta, 9.
