Dwyane Wade decided to open up to the world about one of the hardest things he had to go through, which was telling Gabrielle Union that he had a child with another woman.
This happened between the time where he was co parenting with ex wife, Aja Metoyerin but before proposing to Union.
Wade told the story on his upcoming documentary, D.Wade: Life Unexpected.
E News Reports:
In his upcoming D. Wade: Life Unexpected, the former Miami Heat superstar, 38, opens up about his personal life and his brief split with Union, 47. Recalling their reconciliation, Wade says it “wasn’t easy” to let the actress know about the son he fathered during their time apart.
At the time, Wade was already dad to Zaire, 18, and Zaya, 12, and nephew Dahveon, 18. He welcomed Xavier, 6, with Basketball Wives star, Aja Metoyerin, in 2013 shortly before proposing to Union.
“I had a child with someone else and I had to tell her. Hardest thing I’ve ever had to do is man up and tell Gabrielle Union that I’ve had a child with somebody else,” he says in the upcoming sports special, according to Entertainment Tonight. “I couldn’t sleep. I wasn’t eating.”
He continues, “When you hold something in that you know is going to come out and you have this information and you know it’s gonna f— somebody’s life up, that you care about, that you love, if it don’t hurt you, then you’re not human.”
The NBA star adds in the documentary that he and Union “went through something that you never want to go through and we still came out of it,” according to ET.
In her 2017 book We’re Going to Need More Wine, Union shared that she struggled with infertility and failed IVF treatments when she was trying to expand her family with Wade.
“I have had eight or nine miscarriages,” she shared in the collection of personal essays. “For three years, my body has been a prisoner of trying to get pregnant — I’ve either been about to go into an IVF cycle, in the middle of an IVF cycle, or coming out of an IVF cycle.”
But even after enduring three years of failed IVF cycles and being constantly bloated from the hormones, Union wrote that she and Wade “remain bursting with love and ready to do anything to meet the child we’ve both dreamed of.”
The full documentary will be released February 23rd at 9:00pm on ESPN.
And now you’re officially in the KNOW!
