Backstreet Boys’ AJ McLean and Wife Rochelle McLean’s Relationship Timeline: From Their Meet-Cute to Their Temporary Separation
usmagazine.comBeing the best for each other. AJ McLean and Rochelle McLean (née Karadis) have always put their marriage first — even in the wake of their temporary separation.While the couple first met in 2008, their connection didn’t blossom until five years later.
The “As Long As You Love Me” artist recalled asking Rochelle out for the first time while she was working as a waitress at Saddle Ranch in West Hollywood.“I asked her out, and then she asked her manager who I was.
Our first date was supposed to be dinner [and] a movie. And I worked late in the studio the night before,” he recalled during an August 2022 appearance on the “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast. “So I was like, ‘Why don’t you just come over to the house?
And we’ll watch a movie, and we’ll order in.’”AJ explained that Rochelle had no idea who he was at the time and ghosted him.
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