The pair began corresponding after they both appeared in a forthcoming documentary about Twitter titled “Follow Friday: The Film.” Their online flirtation appears to have begun not too long afterward, when Hurricane Sandy struck the East Coast.
“@CoreyBooker you’re welcome to come stay in my bedroom if your home was affected by the hurricane… ;)” Lee tweeted in October
“I want @CoryBooker to plow me through the night…” she wrote a few months later.
Then, on Feb. 24, Lee tweeted, “@CoryBooker the west coast loves you (by west coast, I mean me) :),” an expression of affection that finally prompted Booker to respond.
“The East Coast loves you and by the East Coast I mean me,” Booker, currently running for U.S. Senate in New Jersey, wrote in a direct message to Lee obtained by The News.
“Well now I’m blushing,” responded Lee, whose account is strewn with nude selfies and other not-safe-for-work material.
“It’s only fair,” Booker wrote 