Shemar Moore as soon as requested out Alicia Keys and he or she turned him down.
Throughout an look on The Jennifer Hudson Present on Thursday, the S.W.A.T. star revealed that he as soon as tried to ask the Woman on Fireplace singer out, and he or she rejected him.
“I attempted to get at Alicia Keys, I ain’t gonna lie. I attempted!” Shemar started. “I noticed her on the Soul Prepare Awards, I used to be in my dressing room. I regarded on the monitor, there she was along with her cornrows. And that is when her (2001) music Fallin’ was first blowing up, she was simply on the brink of explode. So she’s enjoying the piano, doing her factor and my favorite instrument is the piano.”
Shemar first turned concerned about Alicia on the awards present, which he hosted, however did not strategy her till 4 months later at a listening social gathering in Los Angeles.
“I am going over and go, ‘Hey, Alicia, you are great and your piano (enjoying) is superb, I do not know what your man state of affairs is like however for those who’re ever in LA, I would like to take you for a drink,'” he recalled.
Alicia responded, “I respect your flirt sport. However my man state of affairs is dealt with.”
He joked, “I walked away so uncool. And my boy was like, ‘What occurred?’ and I used to be like, ‘I do not need to discuss it, let’s go.'”
Alicia would have been in her low-key relationship with longtime collaborator Kerry ‘Krucial’ Brothers Jr. on the time of Shemar’s proposition. She is now married to music producer Swizz Beatz.