March 2015: In a 2020 Instagram Reside video, Ciara and Russell Wilson revealed that they met on March 26, 2015, after they attended a College of Wisconsin basketball sport, per BET. They chatted a bit earlier than Wilson requested Ciara to dinner round 9:30 p.m. He hoped to satisfy up along with her after one other dinner he already deliberate with a bunch of enterprise companions. However that point was just a little too late for Ciara, so Wilson phoned his pals to push again their plans. He and Ciara ended up hanging out that night however by no means went to dinner. They as an alternative talked for hours, and Wilson’s different plans slipped his thoughts. “I fully forgot in regards to the 10:30 [p.m.] dinner,” he mentioned. “Subsequent factor I knew, it was 12:00 [a.m.], 12:30 [a.m.], and I used to be offered on you.”
April 2015: Ciara and Wilson regarded as pleased as may very well be throughout their first public look collectively on the White Home’s Japanese state dinner.
July 2015: Wilson mentioned their resolution to stay celibate in an interview with Miles McPherson, a pastor at The Rock Church. “She was within the dressing room on the point of go earlier than she went on stage, and he or she was sitting there, and God spoke to me and mentioned, ‘I want you to guide her,'” Wilson mentioned. “And I used to be like, ‘Actually?’ And he was like, ‘No, I need you to guide her.’ So I instructed her, ‘What would you do if we took all of that additional stuff off the desk and simply did it Jesus’s means?'” Wilson additionally touched on the challenges of abstaining, joking, “I ain’t going to misinform you all now. I want you all to wish for us. I do know you have seen her on the display screen. If there is a 10, she’s a 15.”
