United Kingdom, April 8 -- Kevin Bacon first met his wife Kyra Sedgwick when she was 12 years old.

The 66-year-old 'Footloose' actor - who has been married to Kyra, 59, since 1988 - has admitted it wasn't "love at first sight", and he has absolutely no recollection of the first time they crossed paths.

He told 'The Drew Barrymore Show': "I was doing a lot of Off-Broadway. I was 19, so she was, 12 I think.

"And her mom had seen me in some plays Off-Broadway and she knew that little, you know, 12-year-old Kyra wanted to be an actor and she said, 'There's this actor that I think you should go see.'

"And she got her tickets to a play that I was doing in the village, and in between the matinee and the evening performance - she saw the mati...