Celebrity Weddings of 2022
All the Stars Who Tied the Knot in 2022
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The Grammy winner revealed that he quietly tied the knot with his longtime love in February during a "CBS Sunday Morning" interview that aired on April 3. The pair — who first met at band camp years ago as teenagers — exchanged "I dos" after eight years together and just before Jaouad received a bone marrow transplant as part of treatment for her second leukemia diagnosis.
"We have known that we wanted to get married, I think, from the first week that we started dating," Jaouad said, adding Batiste had been planning to propose for months. "He said to me, 'I just want to be very clear, I'm not proposing to you because of this diagnosis. It's taken me a year to design your ring. . . . What I do want you to know is that this diagnosis doesn't change anything. It just makes it all the clearer to me that I want to commit to this and for us to be together,'" she recalled. "But once we realised we had this tiny window before the bone marrow transplant, we decided to go for it."