Riverdale's Vanessa Morgan Announces Engagement to Basketball Player James Karnik

Vanessa Morgan is engaged!

The 32-year-old Riverdale and Wild Cards actress is celebrating the holidays with brand new fiancee James Karnik.

The couple took to their Instagram accounts on Christmas Eve to share the happy news, a few days after becoming engaged.

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“James knows how much I love Christmas, especially all the festive lights, so he took me to the Langley Glow Light Festival,” Vanessa told People. “We were walking around, and I honestly thought he was going to propose on Christmas morning, so it came as a complete shock when it happened.”

“James had just injured his foot — we weren’t sure if it was a break or a sprain at the time, but he was on crutches. I asked him if he was sure he wanted to walk around on crutches, and he said, ‘For you, I’ll do it. I know how much you love this.’ It seemed a little suspicious, but I didn’t think much of it,” she added. “Then, in the middle of all the lights and people, James put down his crutches to ‘adjust his shoe,’ and that’s when I started to suspect something was up. He dropped his crutches, got down on one knee, and asked me to marry him.”

James proposed with a Brilliant Earth ring.

“When I saw the ring, it was just stunning, and in that magical moment, with the lights all around us, it felt like the best Christmas present ever,” Vanessa said.

Vanessa was previously married to Michael Kopech and they share three-year-old son River and five-months-old daughter Kaia.