During a conversation with her mother in the season seven premiere of The Real Housewives of Miami, Larsa Pippen opened up about her on-again, off-again relationship with Marcus Jordan and how her children influenced her decision to ultimately break up with him.
Larsa was previously married to Scottie Pippen, who was teammates with Marcus’ father, Michael Jordan. Larsa, 50, and Pippen share four children; Scotty Jr., 24, Preston, 22, Justin, 19, and Sophia, 16. She and Marcus, 34, started dating in 2023 before they ultimately broke up the following year.
“I’m kind of used to being alone now,” Larsa told her mom in the June 11 episode, E! Online reported. “Especially if you’re with the wrong person, it’s definitely better to be by yourself.”
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Larsa also said her children ultimately convinced her to part ways with Marcus. “When I was with Marcus, my kids were like, ‘Stop getting back together and breaking up, and just get off the ride,’” she revealed. “That’s when I was like, ‘I need to get away from the situation—my kids think that it’s not good for me.’”
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An emotional Larsa also reflected on how their breakup was “stressful” for her and the barrage of phone calls that came in afterward. “I’m done, I just want to go to bed,” she said. “I don’t want to have to address it. It’s so embarrassing.”
Larsa in a confessional interview also claimed that Marcus harshly reacted to their breakup. “I fought everyone to be with this guy, and then it was not a good situation for me and my family, so I had to remove myself from it,” she stated, per E! Online.
“But doing what’s best for me and my family ended up pissing him off so bad that he’d send me really bad messages and reach out to my friends and say hurtful things about me, and it was just bad.”
Larsa and Marcus came under scrutiny when they started dating – particularly because of their age difference and the relationship between her ex-husband and Marcus’ father. In 2023, Michael Jordan even made it clear he was not in favor of his son and Larsa’s relationship, Face2Face Africa reported at the time.
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