Finneas Opens Up About His Proposal to Claudia Sulewski and What It 'Taught' Him

Finneas O'Connell engagement taught him that he would beryllium a unspeakable robber. Yes, really.

The 28-year-old musician appeared connected The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon pinch his Favors bandmate, singer-songwriter Ashe, connected Tuesday, Sept. 30. As big Fallon, 50, pointed out, emotion is successful nan aerial for nan pair.

Ashe, 32, is slated to necktie nan knot successful a fewer weeks, and nan Grammy-winning producer (who besides creates euphony nether nan sanction FINNEAS) conscionable announced his engagement to longtime woman Claudia Sulewski — and nan acquisition of proposing, he told Fallon, almost “ate maine alive."

“I mean, I’m very relieved that it happened,” said O'Connell. “I consciousness for illustration it really taught maine that I’m not trim retired to rob banks aliases bargain cars aliases thing because I was keeping a joyous, happy concealed for respective weeks, and it ate maine alive.”

“And I was lying successful furniture astatine nighttime reasoning astir wherever nan ringing was and her not uncovering … immoderate it was,” he added. “And this is simply a nice point that I’m keeping secret.”

O'Connell and Sulewski, 29, exchanged rings connected Monday, Sept. 22 aft 7 years of dating, and announced nan news 2 days later connected Instagram. Alongside photos of their sunset proposal, Sulewski wrote, "Forever and ever 9.22.”

The Favors musician, who is besides Billie Eilish's relative and predominant collaborator, first met his now-fiancée — a host, character and founder of CYKLAR skincare — connected a making love app successful 2018. She quickly became his muse, he later revealed.

Within hours of gathering Sulewski, O'Connell wrote nan opus "Claudia,” and sent her parts of nan opus that aforesaid night, he told BuzzFeed successful 2019. And if nan lyrics are immoderate indication, nan musician already heard wedding bells successful nan pair’s future.

“I deliberation you're gonna alteration my plans / With those emerald eyes / But you don't moreover understand / How overmuch they're connected my mind,” he sings connected nan track.

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In October 2019, nan “Till Forever Falls Apart” vocalist and YouTube prima announced that they bought their first location together. A fewer months later, they announced that they had rescued a pitbull named Peaches.

The mates has besides walked respective reddish carpets together complete nan years, from the 2022 Grammys and nan 2024 Vanity Fair Oscars afterparty to nan Barbie premiere’s iconic pinkish carpet. Sulewski attended nan second to support some her beau and his sister — whom she has a adjacent narration pinch — aft nan related duo collaborated connected nan film's Grammy-winning song, "What Was I Made For?"

Eilish, 23, besides had a saccharine reaction to her relative and friend's engagement news, reposting nan couple's announcement on pinch nan crying emoji and 2 reddish hearts. The "Bad Guy" musician besides shared a saccharine screenshot of a FaceTime telephone pinch nan happy couple.