When Steven Colbert flew home, his mom picked him up at the airport and noticed that he was distracted. Colbert told her why and about his girlfriend's ultimatum. She simply asked if he wanted to marry her, and when he said he didn't know, she responded, "I don't know isn't good enough." That's when Colbert knew he didn't want to marry her and would be breaking up with her after the week was over.

Colbert's mom was involved in a theater production and asked him to go with her, so he did. At the theater, Colbert looked over and cast his eyes on the then-Evelyn McGee, whom he would eventually marry. He described how stunning she was in a black dress. "Honest to God, I thought, 'There's your wife, you're going to marry her,'" he said. "And I thought, 'That's crazy, you do not have a voice in your head that says that, forget it.'" 

Colbert went on to describe how they were looking at each from afar a few times during the night. And at the afterparty, Evelyn walked near him and apparently cut in line to grab some strawberries. He did not want to have any regrets, so he said, "You will kick yourself for the rest of your life if you do not turn around and say hello to her."