The friend emailed Kelly, suggesting Brunt might be a good match.

“14 months after we met, Doug asked me to marry him.

Within six months of that, we were married.

Megyn Kelly and Douglas Brunt on the red carpet

Three kids later still going strong.”

Brunt was the CEO of a security company at the time, and he had never been married.

“When I met Doug, I was confused at first.

Douglas Brunt giving Megyn Kelly a piggyback ride

He was a gentleman.”

All good things, but the journalist was skeptical.

There’s got to be a shoe to drop here because he’s too good.'"

Douglas Brunt and Megyn Kelly holding hands

“It was awkward.

It was like our parents were watching.”

“I was nervous,” Kelly admitted toAccess Hollywood.

“It was like a performance …

It was not my best, I’m gonna be honest.”

The journalist decided the moment needed a do-over.

Brunt recalls, “She knocked on my hotel room door.

She walked into the room, and said: ‘I can do better.'”