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Sarah El-Mahmoud

Chad Michael Murray Revealed How He Started Dating His Wife, And I Can't Believe The Line He Used

Chad Michael Murray
Chad Michael Murray looking disturbed in record store scene in Freakier Friday .

Chad Michael Murray is well known for playing a charismatic leading man in movies like A Cinderella Story and Freaky Friday (and of course his hit TV show One Tree Hill) in the early 2000s, and most recently made a comeback to the big screen in one of 2025’s movies, Freakier Friday. But what’s his dating game been like in real life? The actor just revealed how he ended up dating his wife, and my jaw dropped over how he first asked her out.

Murray has been with fellow actress Sarah Roemer for over a decade now. The couple got married in September 2014 and have since had three kids together. Here’s what the actor said about how their romance began:

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