HOLLYWOOD, Calif. —Taye Diggs was more than prepared when he got the call earlier this month that his wife, Tony-winning actress Idina Menzel, had gone into labor.
"I had trained myself to just relax, and I knew that it was going to be a while before the baby actually came, so I was just trying to remind myself what I needed to bring," Diggs, who was on the set of his series "Private Practice" at the time, tells People.
Diggs, and Menzel, who married in 2003, welcomed their son Walker on Sept. 2.
"It's been amazing just to come home to that little dude," the 38-year-old actor says. "Every time I leave the house, it just makes me want to come back even more. It's just a great prize waiting for me."
Diggs also says the arrival of the couple's first child has him looking at Menzel in a different light.
"I have a newfound respect and admiration that borders on worship of my wife," he says. "Just to see her turn into a mother overnight is amazing."
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