Earlier this month, we reported that the 1980s music video and movie star Tawny Kitaen had suddenly passed away at the age of 59. Prior to her death, Kitaen opened up about the secret romance she had with comedian Jerry Seinfeld back in the 1990s.

Kitaen appeared on a 1991 “Seinfeld” episode titled “The Nose Job.” In this episode, Kitaen portrayed a sexy model named Isabel, whom Seinfeld fell hard for. At the time, Kitaen was a regular on the show “The New WKRP in Cincinnati,” which was filmed on the same Studio City lot as “Seinfeld.”

The renowned biographer Jerry Oppenheimer penned a piece for Daily Mail stating that Kitaen had said that she and Seinfeld played it coy about their romance on the set of each of their shows.

“Our sets, Jerry’s office, our little dressing room trailers, were all within 60 feet of each other,” Kitaen said in an interview. “How fortunate is that – to have your office right next door to your boyfriend’s?”

“At first, we’d be very low-key about it,” she added. “Knowing people were always watching, we’d be on the lot and say, ‘Hello, how are you doing today?’ That sort of thing.’”

Finally, Kitaen said that she and Seinfeld, 67, said to each other, “What the hell are we doing?” adding that the pair began to “hug and hold hands.” While Kitaen stated that they “definitely had an enormous fondness for each other,” Seinfeld was reportedly eager to talk about her quite a bit at the time.

“Jerry wasn’t afraid of telling anybody,” Kitaen was quoted as saying. “There was an article in the Enquirer about him for the first time – about us. He was so giddy about that. He called his mother and said, ‘Look at me and Tawny, we’re in the Enquirer.’ He felt he had made it.”

Kitaen maintained that Seinfeld was a “frugal” person who only gave her a “teddy bear and a Coach leather purse” despite driving to the lot each every day in a different Porsche from his mansion.

“Jerry had nothing else to really spend his money on. He was just amazed that he could buy so many tennis shoes and Porsches,” Kitaen remembered. “He was like, ‘Wow I can do this. Cool!’”

She added that he “wasn’t the kind of guy who wore a gold Rolex with his left arm out the window of his Porsche going, ‘Hey, Baby.’ If he was, I wouldn’t have spent a second with him.”

Kitaen and Seinfeld dated for about a year and a half, with their relationship ending after she became pregnant by her ex-boyfriend Chuck Finley, who she had started secretly dating again without telling Seinfeld. She later said that she “didn’t want to hurt [Seinfeld] when she had to break to the news to him,” as she “didn’t want to stop” the “friendship” she had with the stand-up comic.

Seinfeld reportedly took the news well, hugging her and saying that “he was happy that [she] was happy.”