Marc Anthony told J.Lo he’d marry her during their first meeting

Marc Anthony told J.Lo he’d marry her during their first meetingWashington, July 24 : Grammy-winning singer Marc Anthony has revealed that he told Jennifer Lopez that he would marry her when they met for the first time about 12 years ago.

He said that their first meeting took place when Lopez visited him backstage on New York''s Broadway, where he was performing in a 1997 production of The Capeman.

"It was 12 years ago, I was on Broadway. I hadn''t met Jennifer before. She was just about to break out,” Contacmusic quoted him as saying.

"She brought her dad backstage to meet me.

"As soon as she walked through the door, I probably said the worst thing a guy could tell a girl. I was like, ''You''re my wife and you don''t even know it,''" he added.

Anthony admitted that Lopez was freaked out by his outburst, and that it took him years to convince her he was right all along.

"She was like, ''Well that''s intense.'' I told her, ''I don''t know where that came from.'' And now she gets it. Now she''s my girl," he said.

Lopez, who dated Sean ''Diddy'' Combs and Ben Affleck before marrying Anthony in 2004, turned 40 on June 24. (ANI)