How Seth Meyers’ lawyer wife, Alexi Ashe, beat Jennifer Lawrence to claim the talk show host and comedian’s hand – and then beat food poisoning so she could marry him

May 4, 2025

Seth Meyers’ lawyer wife Alexi Ashe: the woman who beat Jennifer Lawrence to claim his hand. Photo: @sethmeyers/Instagram

Ashe met Meyers at the wedding of his Saturday Night Live co-star, Chris Kattan, to Sunshine Tutt – John Mulaney, Kristen Wiig and Amy Poehler attended the Meyers-Ashe wedding on Martha’s Vineyard

Seth Meyers, comedian and host of NBC’s talk show Late Night with Seth Meyers, started the year in punchy fashion. In his first episode of 2025, on January 7, he expressed his disappointment about having to scrap the script for his “A Closer Look” segment after Donald Trump, then president-elect, made headlines with threats to take over Greenland. Meyers dared him to go ahead and do it.

Adam Sandler (left) and Seth Meyers at the Golden Globe Awards in January, in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles. Photo: Getty Images

Just two days earlier, Meyers, 51, was at the 2025 Golden Globes, having been nominated for the best performance in stand-up comedy on television award with Dad Man Walking. He ultimately lost to Ali Wong.

Notably, he attended the ceremony without wife Alexi Ashe, despite its being his first Golden Globe nod. So what do we know about Ashe, who apparently is “so happy” that actress Jennifer Lawrence once had a crush on her man, as reported by People?

Alexi Ashe: lawyer

Seth Meyers and his wife Alexi Ashe, a human rights lawyer. Photo: @sethmeyers/Instagram

Hailing from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Alexi Ashe is a human rights lawyer. She studied at Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles, then worked for more than four years, until 2018, as an assistant district attorney in Brooklyn, New York.

Currently, she is an advisory board member of the global education non-profit concern Journeys in Film; the director of anti-trafficking policy at Sanctuary for Families, which is dedicated to helping victims of domestic violence; and a board member of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women.

How did she meet Seth Meyers?

Seth Meyers has been married to Alexi Ashe for more than a decade. Photo: @sethmeyers/Instagram