Kim Fields and Jason Bateman shared a romantic second as youngsters.
Throughout a Tuesday, April 2, look on Jimmy Kimmel Reside!, Fields, 54, recalled assembly Bateman, 55, through the Nineteen Eighties after they have been starring on The Information of Life and It’s Your Transfer, respectively.
“There was this kind of chemistry, this vibe, and so I invited him to come and watch me perform and he did,” the actress mentioned. “Before I went on stage, we were backstage and had this sweet teen kiss.”
When host Jimmy Kimmel requested Fields whether or not she and Bateman mentioned the kiss afterward, she replied, “No. It was like, that happened, and then we just went on with our lives and our careers and have the utmost respect for one another.”
When Fields appeared like she had nothing extra so as to add, Kimmel, 56, quipped that he would “get the rest [of the story] from Jason.”
Though her backstage second with Bateman didn’t blossom right into a romance, Fields has been married to Christopher Morgan since 2007. The pair share sons Sebastian, 17, and Quincy, 10.
Fields, who was beforehand married to ex-husband Johnathon Franklin Freeman from 1995 to 2001, needed to shut down rumors about her and Morgan’s marriage throughout her tenure on The Actual Housewives of Atlanta.
After a number of of her costars speculated throughout season 9 that Morgan is homosexual, Fields mentioned throughout a February 2016 episode, “Chris is a wonderful husband and father and we’ve been together happily for 10 years and it’s good.”
Morgan spoke to E! concerning the rumors one month later.
“When someone spreads lies about you, you can either go at them in a defensive manner and be seen as defensive, or you can just let a lie be a lie,” he mentioned.
Bateman, in the meantime, has been married to spouse Amanda Anka since 2001. The couple share daughters Francesca, 17, and Maple, 12. Very like Fields, Anka, 55, initially met Bateman through the Nineteen Eighties after they have been each youngsters.
“I just wasn’t into where he was at,” Anka informed GQ in March 2013 when requested why the twosome didn’t begin relationship on the time. It wasn’t till 1997 that Bateman and Anka’s connection turned romantic.
“I thought, if I only wanted to get married once, I should probably marry a friend,” Bateman informed the Every day Telegraph in October 2014. “I just waited until I found a girl that really was that in my life. Amanda is and that’s why it feels so effortless. It gets better every single year.”