Michael & Scarlett Interview with Meredith Viera

MV: Lets play a game of firsts. What was your first kiss?
SJ: Well you have to remember we did a movie together before we started dating?
MRM: Yea I think she means real life kiss.
SJ: Ohh ok, well in 2012...or does that count?
MRM: No...we went on a date in 2012 but it was just a peck on the lips, not a real kiss kiss. You mean kiss kiss?
MV: Yea, I mean tongue and everything.
MRM: That was underwater actually!
SJ: Well we were in water, not under water haha.
MRM: Oh yea, right. Yea we were at the Dream hotel in LA and had them lock off the indoor swimming pool for us and we were swimming around and she knows I hate water, I have a fear of swimming...
MV: Really?
MRM: Yea because when I was 8 year old I almost drowned...
MV: Oh my gosh...
MRM: Yea, so ever since then I hate going in the water and she was like, no I demand you get in there and other than Audrina, she's the only woman to get me in water, but I got in, and we were swimming around and I said to her, 'You know what would make me swim better? A kiss' and I pulled her in and we kissed. It was pretty cool.
SJ: Yea he's a slick one.


MV: What was your first fight?
MRM: Oh...when I messed up on Facebook.
SJ: When?
MRM: Remember? Ok this one time, me and her had...done something...and I went on Facebook and made a status update about it, sort of alluding to...how talented she was, at a certain something, haha. Nothing too vulgar, but alluding to it, ya know? And she got pissed. She called me within like 2 minutes and was like, 'why'd you put that on Facebook? I'm a very private person, I don't want stuff like that out there, blah blah blah"
SJ: My mom is on Facebook, I don't want her seeing that on my wall.
MRM: Yea I didn't think about that.
SJ: Yea well I do!
MRM: I think it comes from insecurity. I lost my virginity late and as guys we just wanna get laid all the time. It's what we are obsessed with. It's how we keep score with each other, with other guys, not to make women sound like points on a scoreboard as opposed to actual human beings, but I'm just being honest here, haha. But yea, so I think for me, the issue was, it took me a long time to find my confidence with women, and for a long time, during the prime time of sexual discovery and exploration for most males, while other guys were getting it and I wasn't, it was miserable for me and I felt unwanted and unloved and unattractive and I longed for the day, I couldn't wait...I said to myself, one day when I do finally start getting laid and getting a girlfriend...I want the whole world to know. I'm a very affectionate person, I love PDA, I want everyone to know I'm in a relationship. It for a while was me just over compensating and wanting people to know 'Hey I'm in a relationship, I'm getting laid. Girls like me.' It was all in my head. I was still dealing with that person who felt he had a point to prove to the world. But another part of it is, I want to be with someone who is proud to be with me. Ya know?
MV: So did she make you take it down?
MRM: No.
SJ: No I just untagged myself so it didn't show up on my wall.
MRM: Yea but she didn't tell me to take it down, which is one thing I've always loved about her. She will never ever tell me what to do on my social media accounts. And I've had ex-girlfriends do that. Like say 'take that picture down, I don't wan that picture of us as your profile photo, I don't want people thinking we're together'.
MV: Really?
MRM: Oh yea. I had a girl who I was with for a few months and I put this photo up of us together as my profile picture and she texted me a few minutes later saying to take it down because she doesn't want people to think we're dating and I was like Why? And long story short it turned out she was still in love with her ex and wanted him to think she was single. We pretty broke up that same night. I don't wanna be with someone like that.


MV: Who was the first to say I love you?
MRM: Me. Haha.
MV: What happened?
MRM: I think we were having a fight. About something stupid. I was somewhere, it was over the phone, and she was in another city. I was asking her if she could make it to a premiere of mine or something, I don't remember what it was I was asking you to come to exactly.
SJ: Yea, some event ... and I said I didn't think I could and he got all mad. He was like...'i would do it for you, I would drop anything for you'...I was like, ok but this is something I can't just drop, or whatever...
MRM: Yea and she goes 'why can't you just do your own thing and not worry about what I'm doing?' and I was like 'because I love you, that's why'...and she was silent for a little bit...I was like...uh oh..haha
SJ: And I said, well i love you too.
MV: And the fight's over, haha.