After virtually twenty years collectively, Amerie has revealed she’s cut up from her husband, former Columbia Information govt Lenny Nicholson.
The 45-year-old R&B singer shared the replace whereas chatting with Angela Yee through the 2025 BET Awards recording of “Method Up With Angela Yee.”
When Yee referred to Amerie’s relationship standing as “locked in,” the “1 Factor” singer responded, “I used to be, however not now.”
“Not everybody is aware of that,” she continued. “We’re going by the divorce now, however we’ve been separated since 2023.”
Amerie and Nicholson, who served as her supervisor, first turned romantically linked in 2007 earlier than tying the knot in June 2011 throughout a lavish ceremony within the British West Indies. The 2 welcomed their first and solely baby collectively, a son, River, in 2018. Whereas she didn’t expose many particulars regarding her divorce, she did share among the insights she’s gained since separating from Nicholson, together with what she feels is the which means behind all relationships.
“All of the relationships that we have now I consider we have now them as a result of we’re speculated to study one thing, and so all the things is a blessing, like each expertise,” defined the “Can’t Let Go” performer. “So I don’t consider in, like, placeholders … all the things is a lesson that can assist you develop.”
When requested if she was contemplating courting once more, she didn’t affirm however as a substitute quipped, “It’s been a few years since we’ve been separated, let’s be actual.”
She did share the “one factor” she now values in a companion.
“One factor that’s necessary, too, is to recollect you wish to discover somebody that you would be able to amplify, that amplifes you. As a result of typically, and this isn’t essentially my scenario, however after I actually began taking a look at it and I actually began fascinated with how individuals pair off and what that’s,” she continued. “You could be with somebody the place you form of keep the identical. You could be with somebody that may dim your gentle, and perhaps you dim their gentle. You could be with somebody who amplifies you and who you amplify.”
Afterward within the dialog that included Muni Lengthy and Yee’s cohost Jasmine Model, the “Why Don’t We Fall in Love,” singer shared what she’s celebrating most about herself as of late.
“I’m actually completely happy that now I can rapidly see, even when there are dangerous instances or when there are moments that aren’t nice, I can see form of, like, the better function in it, and have gratitude for that,” she stated.
