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How Did Chase Stokes and Kelsea Ballerini Meet? What They’ve Said About Her Sliding Into His DMs


Chase Stokes and Kelsea Ballerini have been going strong for almost two years and have both previously opened up about how they first met via Instagram.

Shortly after the two were first linked at the beginning of 2023, Kelsea revealed on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast that she first connected with the actor by sliding in his direct messages (DMs) on Instagram. “Day one I was playing a birthday party for a friend of mine, but I got there and was like, ‘It’s kind of crazy that we’re finally in the same town and I’m not seeing you today,’” she explained in the Nylon interview. Chase and Kelsea soft-launched their romance on January 13, 2023, when he posted a photo of them cuddling up at a college football game.

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