Mathew Lawrence is opening up in an interview about his relationship with his new girlfriend Chilli.
In January of this year, it was revealed that the 43-year-old Boy Meets World actor was dating the 52-year-old TLC singer (real name Rozonda Thomas) after his divorce from Cheryl Burke.
Speaking with Entertainment Tonight, Matt gushed about Chilli and spilled the deets on how the two of them met. He stated:
“Life is always a surprise. I get to spend time with an amazing woman like Chilli. I’ve never gotten to be able to experience that kind of relationship before, so it’s quite special.
She’s a really, really special human being. I wish more people on the planet were like her. We’d be much better off.”
He went on to talk about how that have similar upbringings and values:
“She’s just got, you know, her morals and her values. The way she treats her family. She loves my family, so important. We get along. We’ll talk on the phone and she’s like, ‘My mom’s calling me.’ I’m like, ‘Go get it. I know how important that is.’ Same thing like my mom calls me. It’s not like, ‘Why are you talking to your mom?!’ It’s like, ‘Oh, your mom. Go talk to your mom,’ you know?
It’s weird, you know, we have similar upbringings. We have similar families. There are similarities that you wouldn’t necessarily think between us and it really works.”
Matthew revealed that he met Chilli, who has a 25-year-old son Tron with ex Dallas Austin, in passing at en event and that they were friends first and foremost before they got together:
“It was just real friendship, you know, for like five or six months, just talking on the phone long distance, like, getting to know each other, see each other here and there. But, really, just keeping it as friends and being, you know, let’s keep our priorities straight here. We wanna know what we’re all about. We don’t wanna take this too fast.”
He elaborated on that first meeting, saying:
“So we were at this thing. We were working. We just said hello in passing and probably nothing would’ve come of that, but there was this big snowstorm. I had to be back for work, so I was getting them [the airline] to change my flights all around. The only flight I could get was a connecting flight through Atlanta. She lives in Atlanta.
So, she was flying on that flight. So, really it was the flight, talking and then afterwards saying, ‘Hey, let’s keep in contact.’ That’s really what made it, and it almost did not happen.
I mean, literally, an hour before the flight took off they were like, ‘OK, we got you on this flight. You gotta go.’ So it was just like that kind of thing.”
