Interview with Julius 2019, July 2019. Haute LivingShepard told the story about their relationship and revealed that the pair fell in love after he met her at a celebration for a former colleague. Victor Cruz in 2016.
 
“[Someone else] wanted to go talk to her, and I was like, ‘No man, let me go talk to her,'” he said. So, I approached her, asking her for a drink. We talked for most of the night, then went to a club after the party and continued talking. She gave me her number and she went on her own, although we kept in touch. This was quite crazy.