“I could tell I was having feelings, but then I was like, ‘Well, I can’t say anything because I’m about to have a baby,'” Lindhome said while recalling their whirlwind romance.

the Netflix comedy in Romania, and how what had been a 15-year friendship blossomed into much more.

“I could tell I was having feelings, but then I was like, ‘Well, I can’t say anything because I’m about to have a baby,” Lindhome, who was expecting a baby via surrogacy and a donated sperm and egg, told the outlet.

“He didn’t get to meet Keaton until three weeks after he was born because he was still working. And I said, ‘All I want is the truth. If you feel in your gut that’s not for you, it doesn’t make you a jerk. I’m not mad at you,” she told him. “I said, ‘I still think you’re the best. I just want you to really feel what you feel. And then be honest about it because it’s a big life-altering thing.’ And he said, ‘Okay, okay.'”

Lindhome didn’t want to pressure Armisen either. Just weeks into their relationship, she instead urged him to go with his heart — and luckily, his heart said yes. “I told him, ‘So you just tell me what your heart says, and he said ‘Yes.’ It was just insta-family, basically,” she said with a laugh.

Their relationship grew during their two months together on set, with Lindhome recalling wanting to tell Armisen how she felt.

“I knew that I was starting to have feelings for him, and I wanted to go on a date. That’s what I knew. So I was like, ‘Okay, let’s explore,’ Lindhome recalled. “Then it unfolded naturally over time. I wasn’t like, ‘You’re the dad.’ I was like, ‘I want to have dinner with you.’ My thought was, ‘I want to kiss you. I want to see you.’ Then it just kept going,”

Two weeks before Keaton was born on March 1, 2022, she told Armisen that she loved him, calling the timing “weird” and “crazy.”

“We were friends for so long that it just happened fast. We had one dinner and then it was like, ‘Oh, yeah, let’s see where this goes,'” she remembered. “It was surprising. I would say it was more of a shock to him. He did not see it coming at all.”