Nia Long has been a Hollywood fixture for more than 30 years, but apparently, even she isn't immune to getting starstruck.

The actress was supposed to be celebrating her career at the Coronado Island Film Festival on Wednesday, November 4 . Instead, she used part of her acceptance speech to confess that fellow honoree Kenny Loggins was her very first white celebrity crush. And she wasn't about to let the moment pass without telling him.

"I am having the most incredible fan moment right now," Long announced from the stage, according to Gold Derby . "Mr. Kenny Loggins, you were the first white man I ever had a crush on."

Then came the clarification nobody asked for, but everybody needed: "I just have to say it because it's the truth."

Long, who was receiving the festival's Leonard Maltin Award, explained that her affection for the Grammy-winning singer dated back to her childhood in Iowa, when she regularly belted out his 1979 hit "This Is It." She even recited some of the lyrics during her speech.

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