Sophia Michaels
When Tim McGraw and Faith Hill began their relationship, the “Country Strong” star knew right away he wanted to become her husband. Hill was less certain. “We had dated for a while. I actually asked her to marry me quite a few times and she kept saying no,” McGraw said in an Instagram video in celebration of their 25th wedding anniversary in October 2021. Her hesitation, however, had nothing to do with how she felt about McGraw.
Hill fell hard for McGraw, but past experiences haunted her. “She said, ‘I’m not going to get involved with another country singer, it’s just not going to work out,'” McGraw detailed. Hill decided she was going to go for it during one of McGraw’s less romantic attempts. They were standing in a trailer housing their dressing room at an outdoor event when he blurted it out. “She says, ‘You’re asking me to marry you at a country music festival in a trailer house?’ And I said, ‘Well, it’s pretty apropos if you think about it.'”
Hill thought it was just another one of McGraw’s silly proposals. “She goes, ‘Well, you’ve asked me that several times.’ I go, ‘This time I’m serious,'” McGraw said on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” in May 2022. She didn’t answer right away. And she also didn’t say “yes.” Hill wrote it on the trailer’s mirror with lipstick. “We still have that mirror,” he said in the Instagram clip.
