Surprise! Michelle Williams Is Engaged To Pastor And Sports Chaplain Chad Johnson
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Destiny has been fulfilled for singer Michelle Williams as she is now engaged to her love.

PEOPLE revealed exclusively that the Destiny's Child songstress and pastor Chad Johnson are set to tie the knot after a year-long relationship.

Williams happily shared her engagement news, saying she "could non contain this [news] any longer" after Johnson, 40, popped the question on March 21st.

The ii met in March 2017 at an Arizona spiritual retreat run by Johnson. The experience was non but i of healing just ane that introduced a love she'd never known.

"I was in a horrible, dark identify," she said. "I just needed to get somewhere where I could get a message of promise and restoration, rejuvenation — get connected to God."

Johnson added: "When we met, both of the states were in very similar places on a personal level. Michelle was coming off the heels of a really bad relationship, and I was only in a place of despair as well."

Following the retreat, Johnson and Williams developed a friendly rapport earlier he tried to take things to the next level only feared he'd ruined the first of a romantic relationship betwixt them before it fifty-fifty started.

"I tried to roll in with some mac daddy game — and I tried to flirt a trivial bit and said something similar, 'How about you lot and I connect sometime?' And right abroad, she texted right back with one word and half dozen question marks backside it: 'Connect??????'" he said. "I thought she had dissed me. So I was embarrassed, and I didn't accomplish dorsum out to her because I thought I'd ruined the friendship."

Merely that uncomplicated text exchange became the start of their modern love story.

The couple got engaged at a California hotel over a dinner that had more surprises than Williams expected.

"We were replaying the whole text message, recreating the moment," Johnson revealed. "I was like, 'Hey, what almost if you and me connected?' She sent me back a text saying, 'I'll cheque my availability.' And I signaled over to the waiter, and she brought out the iPad and played the video of me beingness on the proposal tour."

Prior to request for her hand in marriage, the former sports clergyman for the LA Dodgers and the Pittsburgh Steelers traveled to the vocalizer'south Rockford, Illinois hometown to ask for her family unit's blessing, and he videotaped the unabridged experience.

"I started weeping and wailing when I run into all these special people. Towards the end of the video, something in my caput said, 'Pull yourself together! He's about to propose! Stop all this crying!'," the singer revealed.

The couple doesn't plan on existence engaged very long. In fact, they have their eye on a summer wedding that is small, intimate, private but very special.

Williams hopes that her beloved story with Johnson volition be a testimony to others to not surrender on the dreams of your heart.

"Don't lose hope in love," said Williams. "I do think you lot should non focus so much that if y'all're not in love that y'all get depressed about it. I was in a identify where I was like, I'one thousand simply going to focus on my career and my family and just go on it moving.  I started taking myself out; I started traveling by myself, to the point where I loved beingness past myself."

She continued, "But don't lose hope. Only definitely, be doing what you lot can practice to make yourself a better person for the person that perchance is on the way for the style for you."

Congratulations, Michelle and Chad!

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