Metallica star James Hetfield shared thrilling information with followers on Sunday, revealing that he was formally engaged to his girlfriend of three years, Adriana Gillett. The frontman took to Instagram to announce their engagement, with a photograph of the duo swimming underwater whereas wearing scuba gear.
As James held up the ring field and an indication that stated: “Adriana Gillett, will you marry me?”, his brand-new fiancé held her thumb up in a gesture of acceptance. “She stated sure!” the caption learn.
Adriana shared her personal message on social media and shared additional perception into the inventive underwater proposal. “The BEST birthday journey shock,” she started.
© Instagram“Swimming with whale sharks on Friday the thirteenth with essentially the most distinctive, particular, and romantic proposal a Pisces might ever think about. In a sea stuffed with fish, we caught one another. Thanks, God, for placing us collectively.”
Photographer Lee Jeffries, who has labored with Metallica on a number of events, shared a touching message of congratulations to the pair within the remark part.
“Such superb information! I’ve witnessed the attractive connection you share, and it is one thing really actual…constructed on depth, understanding, and the experiences of lives already richly lived,” he wrote.
© Getty Pictures“Even perhaps formed by the chapters that got here earlier than, which make what you share now really feel all of the extra significant. The best way you join with one another is genuinely particular.”
James, 62, was beforehand married to Francesca Hetfield from 1997 till their divorce in 2022. The “Enter Sandman” singer, who shares children Castor, Cali and Marcella together with his ex-wife, has been open about his struggles with habit and the way the illness drove a wedge between himself and his household within the early ’00s.
© WireImage“Concern was an enormous motivator in that for me,” he stated on The Joe Rogan Expertise. “Dropping my household, that was the factor that scared me a lot, that was the underside I hit, that my household goes to go away due to my behaviors that I introduced house from the street.”
© FilmMagic“I acquired kicked out of my home by my spouse, I used to be residing by myself someplace, I didn’t need that,” he continued.
© WireImage for The Recording Acad“Perhaps as a part of my upbringing, my household sort of disintegrated once I was a child. Father left, mom handed away, needed to dwell with my brother, after which, sort of simply, the place did my stuff go? It simply sort of floated away, and I are not looking for that taking place. It doesn’t matter what’s occurring, we will speak these things out and make it work.”
James added that he went to rehab to curtail his conduct after Francesca had kicked him out. “My spouse did the proper factor, she kicked my [expletive] proper out of the home and that scared the [expletive] out of me,” he recalled. “She stated, ‘Hey, you are not simply going to the therapist now, and speaking about this, you have to go someplace and kind this [expletive] out,’ so that is what I did.”
