Turns out, the two connected after he shared in an interview that she was his celebrity crush.
“Then he e-mailed me, and we flirted over e-mail and on the phone,” Simpson explained.
“We got to know each other by talking, which I think is the best way.
We set up our first date on November 20.”
Simpson added, “I had butterflies that you would not imagine.
I wanted to puke in the cup holder.”
Before meeting up at the hotel, the pop star confided her nerves to Romo over the phone.
“And he told me then, ‘[Let’s] just stay on the phone.
Right when we see each other, we’ll lock eyes and then hang up.’
So that’s what we did.”
The Texas native explained that they’d been sitting in the hotel restaurant when Romo started to lean in.
“I go, ‘What are you doing?’
He goes, ‘Nothing,’ and starts pouting,” Simpson recounted.
“I said, ‘Were you just trying to kiss me in front of all these people?’
He goes, ‘Maybe.'”
While Simpson may have been surprised, she wasn’t at all offended by the attempted kiss.
“Then I was like, ‘Do it again.’
I’m a go-getter.”
Unfortunately, such rhetoric became a mainstay of the iconic couple’s short-lived relationship.
