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EVA LONGORIA DETAILS TONY’S PROPOSAL: Actress said she was ‘touched by how nervous he was.’
*In the new issue of People magazine, actress Eva Longoria recounts every detail of her recent engagement to San Antonio Spurs point guard, Tony Parker.
"I was heading home from a long day on the (‘Desperate Housewives’) set,” she begins. “He had been playing in Utah, so I was just shocked to see him in L.A. I thought it was so weird, sort of, 'Why are you here? What's going on? Oh my God! It's happening!'"
The TV star said there were rose petals and candles all around as Parker fell to one knee and popped the question.
"I cried my eyes out," says Longoria. "I was mostly touched by how nervous he was. I was like, 'You know I'm going to say yes. Why are you so nervous?' But I guess every man gets nervous at that point."
Parker, who said he had already informed both of their families about his proposal, argued that he wasn’t nervous at all.
He said: "I knew it was right. We've been talking for months about it, and I just knew. It was time. …I was going to ask her (to marry me) in France," Parker says of an early October trip to basketball training camp that the couple had planned on taking together. "But obviously it wasn't the right time."
Instead, Longoria met Belgium-born Parker in Paris a few days after her publicist issued a statement saying the couple was going through "a very difficult time." Both Parker and Longoria now say those reports of a rift were blown out of proportion.
"Any relationship goes through trials," says Longoria. "We were working through ours. Tony and my motto has been, 'Breaking up is not an option.'"
According to People, Beverly Hills jewelry designer Jean Dousset, a friend of the couple, designed Longoria's five-carat-plus emerald-cut diamond ring with Parker.
