Michelle Obama Said She Once Took Her Engagement Ring Off and Threw It.On the latest episode of Michelle Obama’s podcast, the former first lady and guest Conan O’Brien talked all about marriage.Michelle recalled a fight during their engagement in which she took her engagement ring off and threw it. ."I threw it where I would know it would go. I didn’t mean it. I wasn’t like ‘this is it’ — it was effect," she told O’Brien. ."Whenever [Barack] gets the chance to relive that, as an example of how fast and quickly I can go there, he does."."I had to learn that he feels things much more deeply over a longer period of time," she continued. .He remembers the exact words used, the context that they were in. And I’m like ‘Wow, I don’t even remember being mad.’ So I had to learn how not to go there. , Michelle Obama