Why Samantha Lee, The Ex-wife Of American Star Tyrese, Regrets Their Split
"I regret allowing 'outside influences' to cause my divorce," but she's open to getting back together
Samantha Lee, the ex-wife of American actor Tyrese Gibson, has spoken out about her choice to end their marriage. In a recent interview with the Hardly Initiated Podcast, Lee stated that she would not have filed for divorce if she got legal advice from a pro-marriage society. A "willing to work" relationship between Tyrese and herself would have allowed her to make amends, she also acknowledged.
Recall that the pair was married in February 2017 and declared their separation in December 2020, with the drawn-out legal process coming to an end in August 2022.
In a song called "Love Transaction," released in August 2023, Tyrese publicly attacked Lee, calling their marriage a "joke" to his wife and hinting that she was asking for $20k in child support for herself rather than their child. Soraya Gibson, Gibson and Lee's daughter, is now five years old, and Gibson was mandated to provide $10,000 per month in child support.
In addition, he was ordered to reimburse his second wife for the $399,000 in legal bills she incurred during their two-year divorce battle, in addition to more than $230,000 in back child support.
Lee claims that she was "emotionally intoxicated" when she ended her marriage because she allowed other people to affect her decision to do so.
"It's very important to seek wise counsel, you have to really decide and make a very calculated decision based on your belief systems. I think we do take divorce very casually. I would never tell a woman to walk through that in the same frame as I was when I did it.
"I was very, very, hurt, I was very angry," she added. "I remember when I made the decision was hysterically crying on the phone with my attorney. I was not in any position to make that decision, I was extremely emotionally intoxicated."
She continued by saying that she thought it was a bad idea to make her final decision while consulting with her attorney. "I would never tell somebody to make that decision when they're that emotional but of course, I wasn't talking to someone that genuinely would be for marriage or for reconciliation," said Lee.
"That's no slight to my attorney, at the time when I was on the phone and I made that decision, I was livid. I was emotional. If I'm that emotional and I'm that hurt and I'm on that level, if it's misguided and misdirected it could go in a bad direction."
According to Samantha, she was ruminating on all the bad things and not the positive things in her marriage. She added that she wishes she had people in her life who were "pro-marriage" and would "check her" about her feelings.
"The people I had in my ear at the time were not for that. The truth about the matter is that if I had different people in my ear at that time I would not have made that decision."
Samantha mentioned that a Tyrese reunion is not impossible. "It's my daughter's father so I would say this," began Lee. "If we were both going to show up and we were both going to fight for it equally and sacrifice equally, like you know things that I needed and you know things that he knows he needed, I wasn't perfect. If we were both willing to fight and we were both willing to do certain things, then yes...no one wants a broken family."
"If we were both sacrificing-there were things I asked for- whatever he came up with that I needed to work on. If we were both willing to work, then yeah," she added.
She mentioned that she became upset thinking about how their daughter, Soraya, might be affected by their divorce. "I think it was harder for me because I made that decision," said Lee who noted that he has a strong relationship with her dad and stepdad, she wanted her daughter to have a relationship like that with her dad, Tyrese.
"It's hard, I would love for us to come to a place of peace for sure. I'm not a victim, I'm just hrting that I made a decision that does affect her. If you're highly emotinal and you're all over the place, even the bible tells us not to do that, there's a way to go about it. I don't think we think enough about it, were's so mad, we're so angry, we're not thinkking about how it affects the kids that are involved."
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