Well this news is surely to strip Dwayne Wade of his role model/father of the year award. The NBA champion’s bitter divorce with longtime girlfriend/babymama Shiovaughn Wade seemed to be diminishing from the spotlight after D-Wade was awarded [by the courts] full custody of their two children [Zaire, and Zion], but Shiovaughn has recently spoke out against the NBA star in an interview with Kietta on “Real Talk With Kietta”, and says that D-Wade’s public persona is all “Smoke And Mirrors” of who he really is [or was to her at least].
In the seven-part video interview, Shiovaughn talks of her relationship with Dwayne from the time they met, up until their demise which Shiovaughn alleges came after D-Wade physically assaulted her and threatened her leaving her afraid to report the abuse, and skeptical to leave the relationship. Shiovaughn goes on to say that she and D-Wade separated [while still sleeping together] and were considering reconciling when D-Wade was reportedly dating to Gabrielle Union. According to Shiovaughn;
“Separated and divorced are two different things. I’m not certain when it happened or when she happened but I know that I was very married. I know that me and Dwyane at that time had talked about reconciliation going back and forth. I was still even intimate sometimes with my then husband. So, does that constitute sleeping or having an affair with somebody’s husband? Yes. To me, divorce and separation are always two different things.”
“The lawsuit was about her having a negative effect on my children. That’s what that lawsuit was about. Her behavior and the things she did and said began to effect my sons, that’s when I opened my mouth and did something about it.”
I know many of you are asking the same question I am: Why Is Shiovaughn speaking out now? [ especially considering D-Wade recent successes both professionally and personally] . Shiovaughn says “she’s overcome fear“.
Here are the full interviews below:
On Domestic Violence in Their Relationship
“I was pregnant with Zion. Shortly before being hospitalized I was in Florida and I woke up in the middle of the night because I was sick, obviously with the pregnancy. I noticed that Mr. Wade wasn’t in the house. I was calling him and calling him because it was probably like, two or three o’ clock in the morning and we went to bed together which means he must have gotten up out of the bed and just left in the middle of the night without telling me. I was looking for him. I looked around the house. I was calling his phone he didn’t answer. He finally got back several hours later, it was well into the next day and I was very upset. I was asking where was he and why he [would] just leave without saying anything.”
“His response was at first to be verbally abusive. He was cursing, he was calling me names, he was telling me to shut the ‘f’ up.[…]He picked me up and held me over his head literally in midair and threw me down in our bathroom. We had an ottoman in the bathroom and he slammed me down so hard that when my back hit the otooman it broke into four pieces and my back and head hit the concrete, the marble floor, excuse me, in the bathroom. After that I got up and immediately went — there’s a cordless phone in the bathroom, I immediately went to that phone and I was crying, I was hysterical, I went to go call the police. At that point more hell broke lose because I suppose he was in fear of being exposed because I certainly was going to call the police. I picked up the cordless phone, he snatched it out of my hand and he threw the cordless phone against my body so hard that the phone literally broke into pieces.”