Jeezy and Jeannie Mai have very completely different views on the dissolution of their marriage.
Throughout a sitdown with Bishop TD Jakes for Jakes’ “NXT Chapter” podcast, the newly minted Guinness World Report Holder opened up about what he discovered from the divorce from the previous “The Actual” host and assuredly instructed Jakes, “I discovered I used to be a fantastic husband.”
He added, “I bought a stupendous daughter out of the scenario, so there’s no regrets there. However I discovered lots about myself, that there’s issues that I proceed to work on. I discovered about my preferences for issues, the kind of area that I want. The kind of moments I have to decompress about sure issues and this unselfish nature that I used to be egocentric in my prior life.”
Jeezy and Mai’s relationship at first was one thing out of left discipline. The pair met on “The Actual” in 2018 and shortly started courting shortly thereafter. In Jeezy’s eyes, their five-year relationship helped him turn into a greater particular person, regardless of the bitter ending.
“I believe simply going ahead in life, it simply taught me how you can give another person grace and really hear to know, fairly than simply to take heed to reply,” Jeezy instructed Jakes. “As a result of while you’re sharing life with someone, it’s nearly such as you don’t turn into one, however this can be a partnership, proper? And so for me, it’s nearly like I’ve by no means skilled something like that, simply coming from the place I got here from. I by no means needed to share… So I simply suppose it taught me lots about what compromising was like, and issues I can simply work on as an individual.”
The couple, who share a 3-year-old daughter, Monaco, cut up after two years of marriage. The Atlanta rapper filed the divorce petition, citing that the pair had been “at the moment dwelling in a bona fide state of separation” and the wedding was “irretrievably damaged.” After accusations of home abuse and questions of custody, a Georgia choose granted the couple’s divorce in 2024. Despite the fact that Jeezy appears relaxed with the cut up, his ex-wife is sharing her personal vulnerabilities whereas coping with the label of being a “divorcee.”
In a seven-minute video uploaded to her YouTube channel on Dec. 5 titled “divorced, 46, single … with a toddler,” Mai will be seen doing each day duties and, at one level, watches Monaco play with toys, opening up concerning the cut up and being candid about what she described as an “earth-shattering” expertise and a “wake-up name.”
“I’m nonetheless adjusting to nevertheless the phrase labels me,” Mai stated on the 39-second mark. “It’s not a foul factor, it’s simply an adjustment. It’s like placing on a brand new pair of glasses. All the pieces instantly appears sincere, even the components that I wasn’t able to see.”
She later added, “Divorce is a phrase you by no means think about connected to your identify. Not since you’re particular, however since you suppose you know the way to avoid wasting one thing earlier than it breaks.”
The video finds Mai persevering with to dwell her life regardless of the labels and sustaining a give attention to development for herself and her child lady.
“As a divorcee, you’re at all times seeing folks say what are the issues that warn you earlier than a divorce occurs,” Mai stated. “The one factor I can inform you is that no one tells you that divorce is each earth-shattering and a wake-up name. It’s as a result of the life that you just pictured disappears, and the longer term you really want begins calling out to you. And the toughest half about divorce isn’t heartbreak, it’s letting go of the girl I carried out with, the model of me that I maintained as a result of I used to be scared to confess the reality. The dream I stored dragging even after it stopped becoming…You’re simply lastly sincere.“
