The Enola Holmes actress added that the couple could not speak underwater, but managed to communicate via hand gestures, and she showed Jake the ‘OK’ signal to accept his proposal.
As she put it, “I think it was underwhelming, but we freaked out.”
In fact, the newly-engaged duo immediately ran into a major obstacle before they had a chance to resurface.
“Anyways, he puts the ring on my hand and as I go to show him, the ring falls off my finger, plummets like so fast it was like a cinematic movie,” Millie explained. “Jake throws himself so deep—the diver was like, ‘You can’t do that, your ears, literally your brain will explode,’—he throws himself, he does a cinematic, like, grab, opens and saved the ring.”
And for the 20-year-old, the heartfelt-if-imperfect proposal is emblematic of their three-year relationship.
“I truly feel like it’s a reflection of who he is,” she declared. “I feel like we’re always going to have each other’s back and if anyone drops the ball, we got it.”