INTRODUCING: Let’s Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa (w/ Colman Domingo)

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 wanna 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 Coleman 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 the story about how you met your husband because it doesn't sound real. You know, because it doesn't feel real, to be honest. It's Tell tell me. First first of all, we're celebrating our ten year wedding anniversary in two days. And Amazing. Thank you. Thank you, Ben. But we met almost twenty years ago. Next year will be twenty years. We literally met in the stone ages of technology because it 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 Honey mask to, like, get my pores together. So Right. 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 the greenest eyes. I don't know. He just looked like something out of a a fairy tale. And I 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 me. And I was on the phone with somebody who was just gabbing away. I said, oh, hey. I need I need to go with anything. I wanna talk to this guy. And I finally hang up. By the time I hang up, he 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 still kinda dazed about all of this. I …