My respect and admiration for Mariah Carey’s husband, Nick Cannon just got real big.  It seems he had been wanting her for a very long time before they actually got together, Mariah has shared with Barbara Walters on Barbara’s Sirius XM radio show Here’s Barbara:

“He likes to say that he spoke it into existence. He told everybody who he thought might know me, ‘Tell your girl Mariah that I want to talk to her.’ All this stuff. I didn’t know him, but I didn’t know what to believe.”

They met in 2005 at the Teen Choice Awards when he presented her with her award:

“He told me that he said to the people that were doing the show, that he wouldn’t do it, unless he could present my award to me. I said, ‘Thank you for all the nice things that you’ve been saying about me.’ And he said, ‘I meant everything – give me a chance.’ And then I didn’t see him again for two years.”

But that all changed when she wanted him for her Bye Bye video:

“I always remembered the moment. We were doing a video and there was going to be a love interest in it. And we were thinking of all different actors and people – we wanted it to look authentic. And I said, ‘Oh, what about Nick Cannon?’ “

That’s a nice love story, isn’t it?  It has all the elements of a fairytale romance:  music, adoration and a stalking.