Sarah Michelle Gellar has been there since the start of Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos‘ love story — and regaled Live with Kelly and Mark viewers with the story of the day the co-host couple first met.

As Consuelos noted on Tuesday’s episode of he and Ripa’s morning show, the Dexter: Original Sin star and his wife “go way, way back,” prompting Gellar to share that she was there the day they met, a story she said she “will never, ever forget.”

“This is a true story, you can tell me if I tell it wrong. But I guess I was in hair and make-up… and Kelly comes in, and this is the ’90s, so she had those huge velcro rollers that she used to wear in her hair,” she recalled. And she comes running in, no make-up, and she’s like, ‘Oh my God!’ And I’m like, ‘What happened?’ She’s like, ‘There is the most beautiful man in the rehearsal hall… I’m in love.'”

While Ripa confirmed the sweet story to be true, Consuelos was smitten, replying, “Really? See, she would never tell me that.”

Nonetheless, Ripa begged to differ.

“I wrote an entire book and said those same words!” she exclaimed, referring to her memoir. “What are you saying?”

Consuelos added, “But ‘beautiful man?’ That’s amazing.”

Gellar doubled down on her “totally true story.”

“Sometimes you read stories and you think, ‘Oh, they exaggerated,'” she continued. “She couldn’t speak. She literally saw you — and this girl never is at a loss for words. She was at a complete loss for words.”

Ripa quipped, “Thank God I recovered.”

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