Modern Meet-Cute
One month after making her relationship official, King opened up about meeting her new man on a dating app amid the coronavirus pandemic. “I never thought it would go anywhere since he lives in Utah and I live in St. Louis and work in Los Angeles – but what the hell, it was quarantine and I wasn’t physically seeing anyone anyway… until we did,” she wrote in a lengthy blog post in June 2020. “It wasn’t until weeks into our dating relationship when we finally went to a coffee shop, got a drink at a bar, and ordered a meal at a restaurant – this order felt a little backwards and old-fashioned to us but it also made us feel more deeply connected.”
At the time, King said the businessman was “someone I truly cherish” and that she felt “up to [her] eyeballs in happiness.”
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