Extremely Impressed After 20 years of divorce, mom Donna is getting ready to remarry dad Ed, according to Jason Kelce and Travis. Quoting :real love never dies…
Donna Kelce recounted her meet cute with Ed Kelce on the “New Height” podcast. As the story goes, they first met at the popular Cleveland bar Fagan’s after work.
“He came up to me with the illustrious pickup line, which was, ‘Did you say Joe?’ And I said, ‘No.’ And he said, ‘Oh I thought you said Joe.’ I said, ‘Is your name Joe?’ And he said, ‘No, it’s Ed,'” she recalled, as the three of them laughed.
But Donna Kelce had another date she was supposed to be at while chatting the night away with Ed Kelce.
“I was supposed to go out with a guy that night. We were supposed to go to a play and I never made it,” she said. “Your dad and I talked forever … It was meant to be. It’s just the way it was.”
Ed Kelce said that he didn’t remember that his former wife stood up her date, nor that he used that pickup line.
But he did recall Donna Kelce giving him a ride home to shower and change after his day in the Steel Mill. He said they then continued their conversation at another nearby bar called “The No Name.”
Donna and Ed Kelce open up about their relationship struggles in the documentary “Kelce,” focusing on their older son. While the couple say they would have “preferred” to have split early on, they stayed together for the kids.
“If we had split as we probably both would have preferred, that would have been a nightmare with the logistics, getting kids where they had to be and providing all the support,” Ed Kelce said in “Kelce”.
They remained amicable. On the “New Heights” podcast in 2023, Jason and Travis Kelce spoke to their mom about her marriage to their father, which lasted for over 20 years, before Donna Kelce confirmed she and Ed Kelce divorced over 10 years ago.
Donna Kelce said she and Ed Kelce are “friends to this day.”
She continued, “We get along great, it’s just sometimes people, they move apart.”
Ed Kelce shared a similar sentiment, telling the two that he wants “nothing but happiness for (their) mother.”
After Jason Kelce asked each of his parents separately if they regret marrying one another, they both quickly responded no, with Donna Kelce adding, “Because I got you two.”
Donna Kelce said she and her former husband were a “tag team” raising their two boys and “did all these fun things.”
“It was perfect,” she said. “You got to do whatever sports you wanted. You got to go on all the tournaments. You got to everything and it worked out.”
