Mary J. Blige is sharing the intimate details about her uncoupling from her estranged husband Kendu Issacs. And she's not holding back. She gets down to the nitty, gritty about the overwhelming disrespect from Kendu, his spousal demands and much more. Highlights from her raw interview inside…
We’ve all been watching Mary J. Blige’s nasty divorce from her estranged husband/former manager Kendu Isaacs play out in the media. But, she’s soldiering through it like a G.
The “No More Drama” singer stopped by Power 105 to chop it up with radio personality Angie Martinez to open up and share the intimate details of her pending divorce.
“Unfortunately he was my everything and you can’t make a person your everything, because you’re giving them too much power, you’re giving them God’s power. And this is why thing like this happen. So, I just gave him way too much but I gave him all of that so he can feel comfortable, you know, in the company of my peers. When he comes around, he’s not just my Mary J. Blige’s husband.”
So very true. When you make a person your everything it gives them too much power they shouldn’t have had in the first place.
After being with her estranged husband for 16 years (and married for 13 of those years), Mary said she realized he no longer wanted to be with her. He started complaining about things she wasn’t doing that she never did in the relationship and she said the disrespect had gotten to a point where it was just TOO much.
“The overwhelming disrespect. Just disrespect, you’re too familiar, you’re way too familiar and you’re disrespecting me and I know, I can sense that I’m not what you want anymore. Because now you start throwing questions around like “ok why you don’t cook?” I haven’t been cooking. “Why you don’t wear your hair like that?” I never wore my hair like this before what’s up with you? You know, so you start to realize that this man doesn’t want you and he’s just gone all the time and you’re by yourself in the relationship. You realize you’re just by yourself in the relationship and you’re just suffering through it. Now it’s time to do some investigating.”
Mary reacted to Kendu’s demands of spousal support. It’s reported he gunning for over $100,000 per month….even NOW while they hash out the divorce details because he has grown accustomed to a certain lifestyle.
“I don’t owe you anything. It’s not fair, so this is very mean. This is very mean to just keep sitting on this and demanding this type of money and taking me through all this sh*t. I can’t believe you’re trying to stick me up and no disrespect to his family at all, you know, but I’m not responsible for you. I don’t have any children with you. I’m not responsible for anything else with you anymore.”
Facts.
When news broke that Mary was going through a divorce, it was followed by news that she would be hitting the road to go on tour. Mary said she decided to go on tour because she needed her fans to help keep her mind off all of the madness that was going on around her.
“I mean, Angie, I needed that. I needed to be somewhere other than home thinking about all of this foolishness. You know, these lawyers and this and that and, you know just all the stupidity. I needed to be somewhere where I can vent and express myself and use my music as my own therapy you know, and get some energy back from the fans.”
With a new album on the horizon (titled Strength of a Woman), she said her music has been therapy during this tough time.
“I’m glad, I’m happy, unfortunately in this situation my fans will be happy, they’re gonna be happy anyway but you know but it’s healing time. And a lot of us want to get through some stuff that we don’t want to tell nobody about. But I’mma tell. This is what I’m here for.”
Will she ever get married again? “Right now, no, I will never get married again.”
Check out her full interview where she also talks about partying with Diddy and Cassie for her birthday and singing to Hillary Clinton below:
Mary's new album Strength of a Woman drops April 28th.
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