Matthew Broderick presented his wife of nearly 30 years Sarah Jessica Parker with the Golden Globes’Carol Burnett Award for a life of achievement in television at Golden Eve, a ceremony that also added Helen Mirren to the list of legends that have won the Cecil B. DeMille Award.

Broderick suggested if she’d listened to him, it might not have happened.

“Do you really want to do TV?” the actor recalled asking Parker when she was first presented with the script for her career-making role as Carrie Bradshaw on “Sex and the City” in the 1990s. She would go on to win six Golden Globes and two Emmys.

Accepting the award, Parker said, “It has been a privilege and a dream to call myself an actor.”

Golden Eve, a new separate ceremony for honorary career awards during the run-up to Sunday’s Golden Globes, was held on Tuesday night at the Beverly Hilton hotel and aired on Thursday night on CBS. Both women will also be acknowledged on the main show, airing live on CBS.

Parker got a tearful tribute from longtime “Sex and the City” co-star Kristin Davis and a toast with cosmopolitans — Bradshaw’s favorite drink that the show turned into a craze — led by Colman Domingo.

The Carol Burnett Award is given for “outstanding contributions to television on or off screen.”

The most recent winner — Ted Danson — and its namesake and 2019 first winner — Burnett — opened the night of kudos.

“My darling Sarah,” Burnett, age 92, said on a mic from her table. “Welcome to the club.”

Parker also talked about the time creator Darren Star offered her “Sex and the City,” and what it would mean to take it. The original HBO show became a cultural phenomenon. It ran for six seasons, spawning two feature films and the recent reboot series “And Just Like That….”

“I met Carrie Bradshaw, Charlotte York, Samantha Jones, and Miranda Hobbes,” Parker said, “and I spent 25 years with the most glorious ensemble of women and actors, where we treated all of New York like CBS Television City and the streets like Studio 33.”

Broderick also talked about the way “Sex and the City” changed their lives.

“The president,” he said, “came to our house.”

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