Melissa Fumero says the “greatest gift” her former television series “One Life to Live” gave her was her husband, David Fumero.
While appearing on TODAY with Jenna & Friends on March 3, Melissa Fumero said she met her husband on set of the long-running drama series in the early aughts.
“I had been on the show for maybe a year and a half. They brought him back for a short, three-month storyline and we met and we were secretly dating for a while,” she told TODAY’s Jenna Bush Hager and Savannah Guthrie.
When asked if she told her co-workers about their relationship, Melissa Fumero responded, “No! I was like, ‘We can’t bring this into work.’”
“You’re on a soap opera and you’re kind of living a soap opera,” Bush Hager joked.
Before she met David Fumero though, the “Grosse Pointe Garden Society” actor revealed her husband was actually her childhood crush — although she didn’t realize until later.
“I was obsessed with the hot guy at the end of ‘Honey’ music video,” she said, referring to Mariah Carey’s 1997 hit. “I was obsessed and I would get so mad at MTV when they would cut it short.”
Melissa Fumero explained his starring in the music video came up while they were dating, prompting her jarring epiphany.
“He randomly said, ‘Oh, this Mariah Carey video I was in,’ and I was like, ‘I’m sorry, are you the guy at the end of the ‘Honey’ video?’” she recalled.
“Wait, I’m dying, you manifested this into your life,” Guthrie told her.
Melissa Fumero called the coincidence “crazy,” saying she knew had to “lock this up. We’re going to get married.”
The couple and former soap opera stars have been together for over 20 years now and share two children: Enzo, 8, and Axel, 5.
