Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Hilarie Burton met by total chance in 2009. After she had wrapped up on One Tree Hill, Burton decided to take a break in Paris, and while she prepared for her trip, she stopped in Los Angeles to visit her friend Danneel Ackles and husband Jensen, according to E! Online.

Jensen had been working on Supernatural with Morgan, and he and Ackles arranged for him to meet Burton. Two days after they met, a package arrived at Burton's home in Wilmington. The parcel was full of Parisian guidebooks, a red leather journal, and other useful items for her trip with the note, "Go nuts. Xoxo jdm, Miss your face," as Burton wrote in 2020's The Rural Diaries. Morgan added, "For someone I just met, I can't stop thinking about you." Um, excuse us. Swoon. (BTW, Burton didn't end up going to Paris).

The couple made their first red carpet appearance in 2010, per E! Online. That same year, they had a baby boy named Augustus, aka Gus. There were false rumors about an early marriage between Burton and Morgan, but the couple finally set the record straight about their status nine years later. Here's what they said.

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