Kamal Ghorui
Actress-singer Keke Palmer has said that she “knew something was wrong” when a stranger proposed because she could see the ring was “expensive”. The ‘Nope’ actress was sitting on a ‘Baby, This Is Keke Palmer Live’ panel at the SXSW Festival last month when a man from the audience got down on one knee to ask her to marry him and she could quickly tell it wasn’t just a prank, reports ‘Female First UK’.Speaking on the ‘Decisions, Decisions’ podcast, she explained, “This is how I knew that something was wrong because the ring was nice. It wasn’t like no Cracker Jack ring. “I’m serious, the ring looked expensive. It looked expensive”.She further mentioned, “That’s when I knew something was up. That’s when I was like ‘is this a joke’ because it was so sincere. I could see in his eyes that we’ve had romance. We had a lifetime in this man’s eyes”.Keke thought the man genuinely believed it was finally time to propose, even though they didn’t know each other. She said, “So then I was like, ‘Okay, sir, no, I cannot marry you, I cannot marry you, sir’. And then that’s when I knew when he started looking back to the people and he was like, ‘She wants to say yes. Help her say yes’. And I was just like, ‘Oh, no'”.The ‘Nope’ actress focused on being “careful” about how she rejected the man, who she said looked like a “pretty together guy”, and only got nervous about the fact it could have been a dangerous situation afterwards.She said, “This is nothing to play with. And that’s why I just started feeling sad because I was thinking to myself, ‘man, this guy is in a really bad way, man'”.Despite Keke’s public profile, she hopes people can understand she is “only human”.
