Now thats a rock of love

May 2024 · 2 minute read

MOM & DAD: Bret Michaels and Kristi got engaged on the finale of “Life As I Know It.”

It took them 16 years, two daughters and several near- death experiences — but Bret Michaels and longtime galpal Kristi Gibson will finally get hitched.

Michaels used Monday-night’s season finale of his VH1 reality show, “Bret Michaels: Life As I Know It,” to surprise Gibson — literally getting down on one knee to pop the question.

“I want you to know that I love you and you’ve been unbelievably a big part of my life and we have two beautiful girls together,” Michaels said to Gibson.

“I know we love and respect each other and I hope we can find that inner love we can have forever.

“I want you to be my wife.”

“Are you sure?” Gibson said, choking back tears.

“I’m sure,” Michaels said. “Just say yes because the rejection will kill me right now, if you reject me.”

“Of course I will,” Gibson said, crying. “I love you.”

Michaels and Gibson then broke the news to their two daughters, Raine, 10, and Jorja, 5, when the girls returned home from school.

“I’m speechless. I thought this day would never come,” Gibson, 39, admitted later. “And he doesn’t realize how happy he’s just made me.”

Whether or not Michaels would pop the question to Gibson has been a season-long question on “Life As I Know It.”

The couple’s long rela tionship has withstood infi delity, Michaels’ canoo dling with other women on his “Rock of Love” reality shows and even recent allegations that he broke up Billy Ray Cyrus’ longtime marriage to Tish Cyrus. (They’re Miley’s parents.) Michaels has vehemently denied this.

More importantly, Gibson has been at Michaels’ side through his various medical maladies: his near-fatal brain hemorrhage last April, which was preceded by an emergency appendectomy and followed by a stroke one month later.

Doctors determined that Michaels’ stroke was caused by a hole in his heart, which the 47-year-old rocker and ex-Poison frontman will have repaired next month at Barrow Hospital in Phoenix.

Michaels was “enjoying family time” with Kristi and their daughters yesterday and was unavailable for comment. They haven’t yet chosen a date for their wedding, his publicist said.

Michaels is scheduled to perform a New Year’s Eve concert in Orlando, Fla.

VH1 has not yet decided if “Life As I Know It” will return for a second season, a network spokeswoman said.

The series averaged only about 500,000 viewers.

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