Jeannie Mai recently reflected on her divorce from rapper Jeezy and revealed how it felt to be a divorcee.
Per Complex, the television personality talked about her experiences after parting ways with her ex-husband in a video she posted on her YouTube channel on December 5.
“Divorce is a word you never imagine attached to your name,” Mai, who shares a daughter with Jeezy, said in the video titled, “divorced, 46, single…with a toddler.” “Not because you’re special, but because you think you know how to save something before it breaks.”
“As a divorcee, you’re always seeing people say what are the things that warn you before a divorce happens are,” she added. “The one thing I can tell you is that nobody tells you that it’s both earth-shattering and a wake-up call. It’s because the life that you pictured disappears and the future you actually need starts calling out to you.”
Mai, 46, then went ahead to touch on the hardest part about divorce, stating that it “isn’t heartbreak, it’s letting go of the woman I performed, the version of me that I maintained because I was scared to admit the truth.”
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She continued: “One day, you realize you’re not broken, you’re honest. And honesty is heavy. It’s freedom.”
As previously reported by Face2Face Africa, Jeezy, 48, filed for divorce from Mai in September 2023. The former couple ultimately reached a divorce settlement following a contentious case where the pair leveled allegations against each other after their split.
In November, Mai shared a video where she opened up about the difficulties that she and their daughter had experienced over the last two years, Complex reported. She, however, stated that she was in a great place in her life.
“It cracked me open and showed me everything that I’ve been trying to mask. I went through things that I wouldn’t wish on anybody,” Mai said. “The kind of pain that shakes your faith and makes you question everything. A chapter of my life ended, one I once shared right here.”
“And what looked like an ending became the awakening I never saw coming,” she added. “Because I realized how far I had abandoned myself. How often I traded peace for making broken things look whole. And when everything fell away, it stripped me down until the only person left to meet was me.”
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