Chris Pratt acknowledged that he endured a tough time before meeting his current wife, Katherine Schwarzenegger, at church. The 43-year-old “Guardians of the Galaxy” star spoke with Drew Barrymore on her talk show about a personal low point that evolved into the greatest gift.

He told Barrymore, “I met Katherine, now it’s been five, maybe six years ago, and God has a fast-forward button. When it’s right, boom. You get hit. You fall in love. You get married. Now we have two beautiful daughters to add to my family, and it feels really great.” Pratt and Schwarzenegger met in the spring of 2018, announced their engagement in January 2019, and were married on June 8, 2019, in Montecito, California. The couple shares two daughters, Lyla and Eloise.

Pratt was married to actress Anna Faris for eight years before they broke up in 2017, divorcing in 2018. They share custody of their son, 10-year-old Jack. The movie star said, “There was a moment in my life that I was really struggling and felt really broken.” He added, “For me, my own journey of finding a higher power and leaning on that and feeling like, ‘Please save me,’ and then feeling saved … and then shortly, later meeting, you know, the woman of my dreams and being like, ‘This is, wow, this feels great.’”

When Barrymore shared that she was looking for love but was afraid to put herself out there, Pratt gave her some advice. He said, “It’s all about timing. There’s a perfect plan out there for you, and I think you just have to have faith. The minute you have faith, it falls into place.” Barrymore mentioned that Pratt and Schwarzenegger met “at a place of faith.” Pratt confirmed, saying, “Yeah, we did. We met at a church.”

Pratt said he was sitting in the front row when he saw Schwarzenegger for the first time. He said, “You kind of don’t want to be like, ‘Whoa, who’s that?’ at church. But I was kind of sneaking some glances, and I’m wondering, ‘Who is that? Anyway, what am I doing? Come on; I’m broken; help me. But who’s that?’ So we kind of hit it off. We didn’t start dating right away, but we met there and then, later on, ended up going out.”

Pratt said their connection was “very quick,” and Barrymore echoed his previous confession that “God puts it on fast forward.” Pratt continued, “It made sense. It’s like when you’re doing a puzzle. And there’s a piece, and you’re like, ‘I’m certain that’s the piece.’ Like it just fits together.”’

Barrymore recalled Schwarzenegger visiting the show to promote her latest book. She said of “The Gift of Forgiveness,” “When your wife was here, I bonded with her on her book about forgiveness, which I think is such a powerful thing.”

“She wrote this book, and she chronicles several different stories and their own journeys with forgiveness,” Pratt detailed. “There’s nothing about it that says you need to do it one way, or you need to do another — she was just really looking at people in their forgiveness journeys, and it’s a fabulous book. She’s great.” He joked, “When I screw up, I say, ‘Hey, remember your book?’”