How Colman Domingo Met His Husband Through Craigslist Missed Connections _ E! Ne
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00:00 and I said I think I love you and you're about to change my life."
00:02 Coleman Domingo has us in tears.
00:05 While on The Graham Norton Show, the Euphoria actor shares the adorable story of how he
00:09 met his now-husband, Raul.
00:11 And let's just say, the story could be a movie itself.
00:14 "And you're in Berkeley, California in 2005 and you're minding your business going into
00:21 a Walgreens, which is like a Boots here.
00:24 So I'm going in there, because it's a Sunday night.
00:27 I live in New York, I'm just going there in Berkeley to get a mask for the night, you
00:31 know, a facial mask.
00:32 So I'm walking in and I see someone walking out, has beautiful hair down to here, lip
00:37 piercing, beautiful, beautiful.
00:39 I see this guy and we look at each other and I'm like, 'Oh my God.'
00:42 And I'm on the phone and I come outside and we look at each other and he's talking to
00:45 this young woman and she seems to be angry about something.
00:48 So it's a lot of like, you know, and he keeps looking at me and she's all, and I'm like,
00:53 'What's going on?'
00:54 And so I'm like, 'Oh, let me get off the phone.
00:57 I'm going to get off the phone.'
00:58 I get off the phone, they walk off down the street, but he keeps looking back.
01:02 But he, and I wave, but he just keeps going.
01:06 And then I'm just dumbfounded and I end up in a blockbuster, you know, across the street,
01:11 you know, and I don't even know what I'm doing.
01:13 But I decided to look at my watch and it was 8.03 and I came back outside and I thought,
01:18 is he here?
01:19 And I thought, well, maybe I'll come back next Sunday and he'll be here.
01:22 I'm that kind of hopeless romantic."
01:24 Coleman Domingo is not one to give up.
01:26 "I'm trying to buy a used computer and I was, uh, I was just scanning Craigslist.
01:31 They have Craigslist over here, right?
01:32 Yeah.
01:33 I was scanning Craigslist, right?
01:34 So I thought, maybe I'll place one of those Miss Connections ads.
01:36 I wonder if they work.
01:37 Cause I would read them on the subway.
01:39 I go to page two of them as I'm reading and I see 'saw you outside of Walgreens, Berkeley.'
01:46 He placed an ad for me two hours before.
01:48 Come on, bro.
01:49 I jumped up.
01:50 I was like, are you kidding me?
01:52 That's me.
01:53 That's me with my faux hawk.
01:54 It was 2005.
01:55 And I was like, get out of here.
01:59 So we met up three days later.
02:00 We had our first date.
02:02 I was trying to be a good boy and go home.
02:04 He said, can you stay over?
02:06 I said, sure, but let's just cuddle.
02:07 We cuddled.
02:09 I thought he was asleep.
02:10 Four o'clock in the morning, I couldn't sleep.
02:11 And I said, I think I love you and you're about to change my life.
02:14 And we've been together for almost 19 years."
02:18 Coleman and Raul tied the knot in California nine years after their initial meeting in
02:22 Walgreens.
02:23 And speaking of perseverance, he told E!'s Kelty Night at the 2024 Golden Globes how
02:28 he kept pursuing his dream in Hollywood, despite the obstacles.
02:31 "I don't know.
02:32 I like to think with the spirit of my parents.
02:34 My parents both passed away in 2006 and they gave me nothing but love, support and encouragement.
02:40 And by then, 2006, I was still an actor who would bartend here and there and work in the
02:44 theater.
02:45 But I know that they gave me a lot of love and a lot of faith and to believe in things
02:49 that I couldn't even see.
02:51 I think that's how I'm here.
02:52 I could only have an imagination and possibly believe that this was available.
02:56 I didn't know the steps that it would take to get here, but I do know that I have faith."
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