Before she hopped across the pond, though, she flew out to Los Angeles for one last visit, where pals Jensen Ackels and his wife Danneel Ackels (nee Harris, who’d co-starred with Burton on OTH) wanted her to meet someone very badly. Enter Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who’d played Ackels’ father on Supernatural and, more famously, Denny Duquette on Grey’s Anatomy. Intrigued by him, but sticking to her plans, she headed back to Wilmington, N.C., where OTH filmed, that night to prepare for Paris. Two days later, she received a package containing “guidebooks on Paris, Raymond Carver anthologies, and a beautiful, red, leather- bound journal, which Jeffrey had inscribed: ‘Go nuts. Xoxo jdm, Miss your face.'” He also included a note that read, “For someone I just met, I can’t stop thinking about you.”
A day later, he sprung a ticket to New Mexico for that weekend on her, telling her he wanted to take her on a date. She went and they began planning their lives together. Paris would happen in another life. After less than a month of knowing each other, he said to her, “Do you just want to do this? Do you want to try and have a family?” Within months, she was pregnant with their first child.
