How Seth Meyers' lawyer wife, Alexi Ashe, beat Jennifer Lawrence to claim the talk show host and comedian's hand – and then beat food poisoning so she could marry him
Donald Trump , then president-elect, made headlines with threats to take over Greenland. Meyers dared him to go ahead and do it.
Adam Sandler (left) and Seth Meyers at the Golden Globe Awards in January, in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles.
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Notably, he attended the ceremony without wife Alexi Ashe, despite its being his first Golden Globe nod. So what do we know about Ashe, who apparently is 'so happy' that actress Jennifer Lawrence once had a crush on her man, as reported by People?
Alexi Ashe: lawyer
Seth Meyers and his wife Alexi Ashe, a human rights lawyer. Photo: @sethmeyers/Instagram
Hailing from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Alexi Ashe is a human rights lawyer. She studied at Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles, then worked for more than four years, until 2018, as an assistant district attorney in Brooklyn, New York.
Currently, she is an advisory board member of the global education non-profit concern Journeys in Film; the director of anti-trafficking policy at Sanctuary for Families, which is dedicated to helping victims of domestic violence; and a board member of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women.
How did she meet Seth Meyers?
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