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Eddie Murphy Calls Longtime Fiancee Paige Butcher His Wife

Eddie Murphy turned heads when he referred to longtime fiancee Paige Butcher not once, but twice, as his wife during a recent interview

I ask my wife, ‘Who’s this person?’ [She’d say,] ‘Well that song’s the biggest thing in the world,’” Murphy said on the Saturday, June 29, episode of The New York Times ’ “The Interview” podcast. Ahead of the interview, Murphy was spotted wearing a ring on that finger while he walked the red carpet at the Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F premiere. The couple previously sparked engagement rumors when Butcher was spotted wearing a ring on her left hand at a HomeGoods store in Los Angeles earlier that month.

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