Dwyane Wade Cheated On His Wife Gabrielle Union, Had A Baby And ‘tried to break up’ With Her
Dwyane Wade was hesitant to inform Gabrielle Union that he had fathered a child while they were on vacation because he didn’t know how to do it.
The retired NBA star reflected on the 2013 scandal in an interview with Shannon Sharpe on Wednesday, revealing that he “tried to break up” with his now-wife rather than telling the truth.
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The 41-year-old claimed that he “tried to pussyfoot around it.”
He said to the actress at the time, “Hey, things have been bad lately. … We’ve been having a little distance in our relationship anyway.”
The Miami Heat player eventually revealed to Union that he had conceived a son Xavier, who is now 9 years old, with “Basketball Wives” star Aja Metoyer after Union “kept showing up” for him.
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“You gotta sit with you and you gotta sit with this person if this is who you’re going to be with,” He remembered from the “Club Shay Shay” episode. “I had to sit with my wife and have this conversation.”
Wade described telling the truth as “scary” because he knew it would “hurt” his girlfriend.
“I couldn’t have gotten through that moment without her sticking with me,” the Olympian said. “That was a rough time for me. You got a lot on your mind. You’re keeping something from people you love. It’s heavy.”
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As for Union, the “Bring It On” actress said in her autobiography, “You Got Anything Stronger,” that when Wade revealed the truth to her in 2013, she was “devastated” and required “untold amounts of therapy.”
That December, the former athlete asked her to marry him.
In Miami in August 2014, the couple exchanged vows.
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