Kerry Washington revealed she used to pin her engagement ring to her underwear to keep the news private.
The 47-year-old actress, who married former NFL star Nnamdi Asomugha in 2013, kept the valuable jewel hidden to “protect” their relationship.
Speaking on SiriusXM’s This Life of Mine with James Corden, she said: “I used to pin my engagement ring in my underwear because I loved my ring so much, so I would sleep with it at night and then in the morning I would sleep with he”. Clip it to my underwear so no one knows we were engaged.
She explained, “I had a groundbreaking, record-breaking contract that I had just completed and I had been to three or four Pro Bowls, you know?” When I met him, he was on the cover of Sports Illustrated and I was on this hit show.
“I felt like there was a lot of public energy around our careers, but we kept our relationship very private when we were dating, I think mostly because we just wanted to protect ourselves and each other.”
Kerry Washington revealed she used to pin her engagement ring to her underwear to keep the news private; Pictured at the NAACP Awards in March.
The 47-year-old actress, who married former NFL star Nnamdi Asomugha in 2013, kept the valuable jewel hidden to “protect” their relationship; the couple photographed in 2018
The couple welcomed children Isabelle, nine, and Caleb, seven.
The Scandal star struggles with the idea of the world talking about her personal life and decided to stop talking about her completely when she was on the cover of a bridal magazine.
She said: “I think it’s very difficult when people have a lot to say about your relationship.”
And the Save The Last Dance actress commented on a past breakup: “I had been in a very public engagement that when it ended, I was in the unfortunate position of being on the cover of a bridal magazine and it was a bridal magazine that appeared “. It comes out quarterly, so for three months I walked around and thought, ‘I think I’m done talking about my personal life in public.’
The revelation comes after Washington and Asomugha made a rare public appearance together at Vanity Fair’s Oscar party earlier this year.
The spouses met in 2009, backstage at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in Manhattan, after a performance of Kerry’s Broadway play Race.
Kerry also mentioned hiding her engagement ring in the memoir she published last fall.
In Thicker Than Water, the Emmy-winning producer wrote that she kept the ring “inside my clothes for fear that if people knew we were engaged, it would be impossible to have a wedding outside of public spectacle.”
The longtime couple share two children: Isabelle, nine, and Caleb, seven.
Kerry and Nnamdi photographed in 2018, five years after their marriage
‘I am in my immediate truth with [Nnamdi]”Kerry described in a Marie Claire cover story last year.
The mother of two added: “Those mirrors are important because they help me become myself again.”
As for her professional life, Hulu officially renewed the Bronx-born beauty’s father-daughter sitcom, Unprisoned, for a second season in November.
For his part, Nnamdi began casting for his directorial debut, The Knife, a psychological thriller, in 2022.