He never actually formally proposed to me, though. He would laugh, I would tell him about whatever happened at college or high school, and I think he just always felt it was too unattainable for him, so vicariously, I would share with him football games or cheerleading. I went to high school and college and I forced that into my life, and he didn’t have that luxury. People want sordid details or they want big blowups, and the truth of the matter is, from the time we met when I was 13, we understood each other and became very good friends, and that was it, we didn’t need to make it into anything else. People expect anything in entertainment or Hollywood to be transient, and it’s not as interesting a story for us to have been lifelong friends. We maintained our relationship for so long because it was never not real. He used to say, “It’s great you can be that close with your mom,” because she was also my manager at the time, where he had a very different relationship with his father, and I think he envied that. My mom would joke with him and rib him like he was a little kid, so he always got a kick out of her. My mom was always very positive in a sweet way about him, and he loved my mom. Everybody was always confused by our relationship.
