Keira Knightley Recalls Meeting Husband James Righton and When She First 'Knew That It Was Serious'

Mar. 15, 2025

Keira Knightley and James Righton on June 25, 2024.Photo:Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty

Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty

Keira Knightleyand her husbandJames Rightonare throwing it back to the start of their romance.

“I knew that it was serious when he very seriously turned around to me and said, ‘You know, if you want to keep mayonnaise in the fridge, you can,’ " Knightley recalled at one point during the episode. “And I was like, wow.”

“You knew I was the one,” Righton added.

Knightley and Righton married in May 2013 andshare two children: Edie Knightley Righton, 9, and Delilah Knightley Righton, 4. Though Knightley has shared in the past that she and Righton first met “in a very drunken way,” thePride & Prejudicestar revealed during the podcast that she met her husband not long after her agent told her he had dreamed she would soon meet her future husband.

James Righton and Keira Knightley.Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage

“So that week my agent said to me, ‘I’ve had this dream – I was single – I’ve had a dream that you’re meeting your future husband this week,’ and I was like, ‘That’s exciting,’ " she shared. “So I got invited out to loads of things and I have to say I’d met a load of people that week and I was like, this isn’t happening.”

Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.“Anyway, the door of this private room opens and my friend Tim’s head comes around [with another friend] and the third head to come around was James,” she said. “And James grabbed a seat and said, ‘Hello, I’m your future husband,’ and there he is. And we basically ate and drank until we got married. Well, drank until I got pregnant.”

Keira Knightley and James Righton on May 30, 2012.Sylvia Linares/FilmMagic

Knightley and Righton celebrated their 11th wedding anniversary together in May. During their joint podcast appearance, the actress said that she thinks she and Righton would never have begun dating if she had not acted in a play based in London.

“It was great because it was a bunch of girls, we were all in our early [to] mid-twenties,” Knightley said. “We were all single and we were having a really, really, really, really good time and so I met [James] in the middle of that when he was also having a really, really, really, really good time.”

source: people.com