Instead, when Robert asked if they could marry in the Church the priest misunderstood-and pulled out a calendar. Because Robert was set on a Church wedding, they’d scheduled an “informational” meeting with his parish priest, planning to have a tentative discussion about whether that was even possible. Robert was a devout Catholic, the middle child of seven in a tight-knit Italian-Irish family Michelle was a secular Jew, the only child of Holocaust survivors. “Oh, this story really makes me sound like a Catholic asshole,” Robert, who is sixty-two, said, looking at once amused and chagrined.Īt the time, in 1987, the couple had been dating for four years. One day last fall, as Robert and Michelle King were being driven from Manhattan to Connecticut, to film “ Evil,” their irreverent spiritual-horror series on CBS, they described the day they accidentally got engaged. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.
