While neither confirmed it was love at first sight, it had to be close.
But James knows his wife isn’t in the relationship just for his connection to showbiz.
“You’ve got to be careful in Hollywood,” he explained on"The Ellen Show.
He knew she was in it for good when she didn’t even blink at his proclamations.
“She loves me for me,” he said.
Daughter Sienna-Marie was born in 2005, followed by another girl, Shea Joelle in 2007.
Son Kannon Valentine was introduced in 2011, and daughter Sistine Sabella rounded out the gang in 2015.
James' proposal to de la Cruz, for example, didn’t go quite as planned.
“It was perfect,” he toldOprah.
But Mother Nature had other plans, and de la Cruz didn’t realize what was happening.
James threw the idea of perfection out, and went ahead with the proposal anyway.
