Mekia Cox is just like Us — rooting for Chenford’s happily ever after on The Rookie. Still, watching actors Melissa O’Neil and Eric Winter pack on the PDA was, for her, a little awkward.

“I have always been a very big Chenford fan,” Cox, who plays Nyla Harper on the series, exclusively told Us Weekly on Friday, September 5, while attending the ABC Summer Soirée in West Hollywood.

However, she confessed that when O’Neil, 37, and Winter, 49, “kissed for the first time on the show,” she “didn’t know what to do.” (O’Neil and Winter play Lucy Chen and Tim Bradford, respectively, who fans have dubbed “Chenford.”)

“All of a sudden it was no longer ‘Chenford,’ I just saw Melissa and Eric and I was weirded out too much,” Cox, 43, explained.

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