Nina Dobrev was ‘in a panic’ before Shaun White surprised her with marriage proposal

Moments earlier getting projected to by longtime fellow and Olympic golden medalist Shaun White, Nina Dobrev recovered herself "in a panic." 

On a Friday nighttime successful precocious October, nan "Vampire Diaries" character was gearing up for a backstage CFDA/Vogue meal pinch Anna Wintour astatine nan Golden Swan successful New York City. However, unbeknownst to her, nan "fake" arena was really a planned connection group up by White. 

"[Shaun] made nan induce look truthful legitimate," Dobrev told Vogue of receiving nan general invitation days prior. 

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Shaun White and Nina Dobrev first went nationalist pinch their narration successful 2020.  (Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

Before arriving, Dobrev – who was moving precocious astatine nan clip – said, "I was successful a panic that Anna’s waiting for me." 

As she opened nan main doorway to nan arena space, Dobrev said she instantly "went into shock." "I conscionable froze and stared astatine him," said Dobrev, who was opinionated successful beforehand of her early fiancé and a photographer who was hired to seizure nan moment. 

Dobrev said White "said each nan correct things," while proposing to her pinch a five-carat Lorraine Schwartz ringing underneath an arch of achromatic flowers. 

"I knew she was tense because erstwhile she’s tense she’ll make jokes," White said. "She’s like, ‘So, wait, Anna’s not here?’"

White popped nan mobility pinch a astonishment connection successful New York City. (Bruce Glikas/WireImage)

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White and Dobrev went public pinch their romance successful May 2020, pinch an Instagram station shared connected some their accounts featuring nan character cutting his hair. "Adding to resume: hairdresser," she captioned nan post.

During a January question and reply with People, Dobrev revealed really their narration is "sort of breathtaking and interesting," saying they make judge to group speech "time for nan 2 of [them] to walk together."

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Dobrev reported that White said "all nan correct things" during nan proposal. (Steve Granitz/FilmMagic)

"In general, I'm much of a planner successful life. Yeah, I for illustration a schedule and I for illustration a scheme for sure. I'm a Capricorn truthful that's very overmuch portion of my personality," she said. "But, we implemented something, I think, it's really cool. We do day nighttime each week and we alternate [planning]." 

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She continued: "So, 1 week I'll scheme it and he won't person immoderate thought what we're doing truthful it's a astonishment for him. And past nan pursuing week, he'll scheme and it'll beryllium a complete astonishment for me. And we do that each azygous week." 

Fox News Digital's Emily Trainham and Janelle Ash contributed to this report.