Dan Reynolds is obtaining candid about the “strange” story of how he started off dating Minka Kelly.
Reynolds, 36, informed People in an job interview released on Tuesday, July 2, that the couple’s romance started with an introduction by a mutual close friend.
The Imagine Dragons frontman was fresh new from his 2022 divorce from Aja Volkman when he spoke to Kelly, 44, over the phone for rather some time prior to they achieved confront to confront. At the time, Kelly was functioning on her Inform Me Every little thing memoir.
Reynolds supplied to deliver her the in-progress new music for his Loom album, which dropped final thirty day period, and the Friday Night Lights actress agreed to let him study her manuscript.
“She’s like, ‘Well, if you’re likely to share your artwork, I can share one thing with you, but it is incredibly susceptible for me,’” Reynolds recalled. ‘“Do you want to do this or not?’”
Reynolds pointed out that Kelly “was quite scared” for him to read the e-book simply because the two hadn’t satisfied, “just as substantially as I was scared for her to hear a tune that I’d prepared.”
“But we shared it and then it finished up remaining a definitely wonderful thing and brought us a whole lot nearer,” he described. “I assume it served us each kind of realize each other on a deeper stage fairly rapidly.”
Kelly then allowed Reynolds to browse more of Notify Me Everything, even asking for opinions.
“It was a truly weird and magnificent way to meet an individual due to the fact I was hearing all her daily life stories from youth to now, and she experienced a really difficult, colourful, wonderful lifestyle,” Reynolds claimed. “Getting to examine it all before you even meet somebody … I have hardly ever had that form of introduction to an individual.”
Reynolds and Kelly ended up 1st linked in November 2022 right after the duo was spotted at a Los Angeles restaurant.
“These are definitely early times for Minka and Dan but it is likely fantastic and they’re both incredibly content,” a resource exclusively informed Us the pursuing thirty day period. “They’re using their time and easing into it as opposed to jogging just before they can wander, so to speak. But so significantly, so good, and they’re owning fun, having together excellent.”
In June 2023, the lovebirds had been noticed packing on the PDA at the Olehenriksen Confront/Body Spa in pics attained by the Day-to-day Mail.
They exchanged a kiss outside the facility, with Kelly playfully touching her partner’s chin as they shared smiles.
Us Weekly verified that Reynolds and Volkman, 44, formally submitted for divorce in April of that yr.
The “Radioactive” singer and Volkman — who tied the knot in March 2011 — welcomed daughter Arrow in 2012 and twin daughters Gia and Coco in 2017.