While Norman Reedus and Helena Christensen’s romance didn’t work out, they’ve always come together for the sake of their son.

Reedus and Christensen met in 1998 after they were introduced by a mutual friend.

“When we met, it was just perfect. I met her through a friend of mine, a DJ and an artist in L.A., at a birthday party downtown at this Japanese restaurant,” the Walking Dead actor said in a 2014 interview with Nylon. “Some mutual friends of ours were like, ‘You should meet this girl, you’d love this girl, you guys would hit it off.’”

Reedus confessed that when he first saw Christensen, he was too shy to make eye contact.

“When she came into the restaurant, I didn’t wanna look at her,” he continued. “She was sitting right across the table, and I didn’t want to look at her, because

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