They were married for 12 years. They dated for ten months after getting together in March After a 1-year engagement, they married on December 17, Twelve years later, they separated on March 27, , and divorced on January 1, In October , AJ met Rochelle at Choreographers Carnival, a year-old dancer who captivated the audience with her Halloween piece.
Little did they know this meeting would begin a beautiful journey together. On March 22, , AJ orchestrated a first date that was anything but ordinary. They dined at a Mexican restaurant named Camacho's, where the band's lively tunes filled the air. The evening took a thrilling turn with a horror movie, The Last House on the Left. AJ fondly recalls, "It was the best worst first date ever, lol. There was Mexican food, a band that wouldn't shut up, and a very graphic horror film!
From that day to that moment, I knew this was someone special. We couldn't blow our noses 'cause it grossed us out! At first, in November , when she worked at the Saddleback Ranch Chop House restaurant, an Old West-themed steak house, as a Hollywood waitress and a bartender, AJ tried to win her heart with his Shakespeare sonnet poetry and "asked her out. But instead of winning her over right there and then, she unfortunately flaked and flatly rejected and "dissed" him on their first date after "finding out" he was a Backstreet Boy and chose to go have fun with her friends instead, so he went out with a crazy ex-coworker of hers until a year and a half.
Then, finally, Rochelle waited and started dating him after realizing her father and older brother knew about him before she did because they worked with him on 2 of the band's music videos, Show Me the Meaning Of Being Lonely and Everybody Backstreet's Back , and gave him a chance.
I was very hesitant to go out with him. He had the reputation of the bad boy and going to rehab. But he was so nice! So I gave it a shot. Well, she will never forget the backdrop. McLean, a celebrated member of the iconic boy band the Backstreet Boys, had a birthday to remember this year.
