David James Elliott; Celebrity Profile

David James Elliott Celebrity Profile

E!: In August of 1989, Nanci Chambers, a model and actress, read for a small part on Street Legal.
Nanci Chambers: Went in, I saw David, and I just about fell on the floor. It was definitely, for me, love at first sight.
DJE: I remember saying hello to her and she was kind of rude to me.
Nanci: [laughing] Oh, okay! I was! I forgot about that part. I had worked on the show once before. And I was reading a script, and I had on these brand new cowboy boots that I had just gotten myself for my birthday, and he walked by and he said, "Oh, nice cowboy boots."
I looked up and went, "Oh definitely! Thank you."

DJE: Yeah, you know, blew me off.
Nanci: I went back to reading my script, and you could just see him melt.
DJE: She tells me later ... because she thought that I would be full of myself, which I wasn't. I was very kind of shy and unsure.
Nanci: And then a year later, I was called back to do the show again.
And I saw him, and that was it.
We had a scene together, and I had my hand up in his face, and I swore I was just standing there going, breathe, breathe breathe! 'Cause I swore he could, like, feel my heart beating through the end of my fingers.
E!: This time, the attraction was immediate and intense.

Nanci: Oh God! I don't know if I should be telling this story. He asked me to move in with him three weeks after we met. So I moved in ... Mom and Dad ... and we lived together and three weeks after I moved in, given up my apartment, moved all my stuff in, David comes to me one day after he'd gone golfing. He said, "I don't really think this is working out."
I'm like, "What do you mean, this isn't working out?"
DJE: It was a little stormy relationship. It was so hard for me because I had never really dated long at that point in time.
Nanci: I know he was in love with me. I really firmly believe that. But he had it in his head that he couldn't have a girlfriend and go to Hollywood and be an actor. And that was his ultimate goal, his entire goal, since he decided he wanted to be an actor. So I really think that he thought I was gonna get in the way.
E!: In the spring of 1990, David decided he was ready to move to Hollywood.
Nanci: And he came over and sat in my living room and he said, "I have a goal in my life. I have a plan and you just don't fit in and I'm sorry, I don't love you and good-bye."
So I watched, and it was like the saddest day of my life.

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