Justin Long and Kate Bosworth recently confirmed their engagement while the duo appeared on Long's podcast, "Long's Life Is Short." There has been speculation that the pair had gotten engaged after they appeared at the 2023 Vanity Fair Oscar Party where Kate flashed a beautiful ring on her ring finger, leaving many wondering if Long had popped the question. While appearing on the podcast, Bosworth announced their engagement by saying, "We are embarking on a new chapter." Long chimed in saying, "Yes we are. People have been asking because Catherine wore a ring that I gave to her when I asked her -- not when I asked her, but shortly after I asked her -- to marry me." Bosworth acknowledged the public speculation after the Vanity Fair after party, saying that she was hoping appearing on Long's podcast and announcing the engagement would put an end to the speculation. "We just decided we're gonna live our lives and I'm gonna wear the ring and we're gonna celebrate our love and there will be photos out there, hopefully people will know," said Bosworth.
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The pair vaguely spoke about a situation that was "very, very deeply, profoundly personal" they had gone through before the proposal, speaking about going to see a therapist together to work through the situation. "But we had just gone through this really hard thing and we had spoken to a therapist and we were trying to move through things at the time and she gave us a really great piece of advice which was: Make sure that you're pretty consistently asking the other what you need, or asking the other what they need," shared Bosworth. "I remember waking up not so many mornings after that therapy session and I looked at Justin and I said ... I remember, I smiled at you, and I said, 'What do you need?' And he, like, really looked at me and he said, 'To spend my life with you,'" she recalled. "And I smiled and I said, 'Well, yeah, you have that. Oh my gosh, you have that,' and he said, 'No, I mean I really want to spend my life with you.'" Bosworth called the proposal "the most romantic and honest and loving proposal."
