In fact, the Yellowjackets star had no idea she was engaged to the Parenthood alum until he announced it to their families three days later. Describing Jason's 2016 proposal as "so confusing," Melanie admittedly "didn't know what was happening" when he popped the question.
"The day before, I had been looking at rings and I tried one on and I was like 'Oh, kind of looks like an engagement ring almost. I don't think I'm going to get it,'" she explained during her April 29 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. "So then, he got me this ring, so I was like, 'Oh, thanks!'"
The 46-year-old said "it didn't cross my mind" that Jason, 44, was actually proposing, so she unknowingly glossed over what the actor said to her when he presented the ring as some sort of "strange speech."
"We were just sort of sitting there," Melanie recalled to host Jimmy Fallon. "And I was like, 'We're not breaking up?'"
After Jason assured her that he had no intentions of calling it quits, the Last of Us actress remembered telling him, "'Well, thank you. Lovely. Good chat!'"
And since the first proposal didn't go as planned, the couple—who tied the knot in 2020—had a "very cute" do-over during a recent trip to Slovakia.
"He's been proposing to me over and over," Melanie shared of Jason, with whom she shares a 5-year-old daughter, "which is very sweet."
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