MJB stopped by Angie Martinez’s show this week to discuss her new music and her divorce from husband and longtime partner/manager Kendu Isaacs.
“Unfortunately he was my everything and you can’t make a person your everything because you’re giving them too much power,” Blige said. “You’re giving them God’s power and this is why things like this happen. I just gave him way too much, but I gave him all of that so he can feel comfortable in the company of my peers and when he comes around he’s not just ‘Mary J. Blige’s husband.’”
Check out several excerpts from the interview below.
On Kendu Isaacs’ Demand For Spousal Support:
“I don’t owe you anything. It’s not fair. This is very mean to just keep sitting on this and demanding this type of money and taking me through all of this.”
On What Prompted The Breaking Point:
“The overwhelming disrespect. You’re way too familiar and you’re disrespecting me and I can sense that I’m not what you want anymore because now you’re starting to throw questions around like, ‘Ok, why don’t you cook?’ ‘I haven’t been cooking,’ or ‘Why don’t you wear your hair like this?’ I never wore my hair like this, so what’s up with you? You start to realize that this man doesn’t want you and he’s just gone all the time. You’re by yourself in the relationship. When you realize you’re by yourself in the relationship and you’re just suffering through it, now it’s time to do some investigating.”
On Marriage In The Future:
“Right now no, I would never get married again…It’s not for everybody, you lose yourself in it. You don’t even realize how much you’ve lost yourself. You lose your identity. You start living to please this man and want to be everything that he wants you to be…I was always desperate to be loved by a man that I felt like ‘Oh wow, this is him.’ My desperation got me tricked.”
On Touring During The Divorce Proceedings:
“I needed to be somewhere other than home thinking about all of this foolishness, these lawyers and this and that. All of the stupidity. I needed to be somewhere that I could vent and express myself and use my music for my own therapy and get some energy back from the fans.
On The Positive Reception Of Her Album Announcement:
“I’m glad. I’m glad. Unfortunately, in this situation, my fans will be happy. They’re going to be happy anyway, but it’s healing time. A lot of us need to get through some stuff that we don’t want to tell nobody about, but I’m going to tell. This is what I’m here for.”
Watch the entire interview below.
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